Interaction Associates

Company Overview

Interaction Associates, Inc. is a leading global innovator of proven solutions for —

• Developing collaborative work cultures
• Developing successful leaders
• Cultivating great teams
• Coaching individual performance
• Navigating change successfully
• Pursuing successful corporate responsibility strategies

We have 40 years' experience helping hundreds of companies and organizations around the world.

We help our clients build the needed collaborative capability to produce extraordinary results, improve critical business processes, and create and maintain trusting and productive work relationships.

Fast Facts

• 93 percent client satisfaction rating by Dun & Bradstreet
• Clients include half of the Fortune 500
• 1200+ clients and counting
• Offices in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco, with consultants and affiliates around the world
• Industry pioneer in:
  • Leveraging collaboration to improve business performance
  • Facilitation
  • Leadership Development
  • Teamwork
• Research and pioneers in collaborative problem solving/decision making
• Top-rated books: How to Make Meetings Work and How to Make Collaboration Work
• Established 1969 by David Straus and Michael Doyle
• Privately held, employee-owned and run
• Founded the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) in 1983. Supports the IISC with 10 percent of pretax profits and 10 days pro bono support annually per employee

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Management Team

Linda Dunkel, President and CEO

Marybeth Tahar, Chair of the Board

Steve Anderson, Treasurer

Andy Atkins, Director, New Ventures

Barry Rosen, Director, Intellectual Property

Susan Baker, Chief Operations Officer

Harvey Kaufman, Director, Consultant Development

Michael Papanek, Director, Advanced Learning Innovations

Laura Aragon, Operations Manager

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