David helps leaders and teams imagine an inspiring vision of the future, develop a collaborative work culture, and share responsibility for taking joint action. David models enthusiasm and common sense as a facilitative leader.
Prior to joining IA as a Program Leader, David worked as a teacher, adult education director, and youth-at-risk advocate and adviser.
David delivers training, meeting facilitation, organizational development consulting. He is a frequent keynote presenter at national conferences, including the International Association of Facilitators, the National Association of Teen Institutes and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. He is the author of three books and several stage plays.
David aims to Facilitate Agreement (a practice from the FL workshop) in all areas of his life.
"Now that the language and process of propose/check for understanding/check for agreement has become second nature for me, I find it essential for setting expectations and providing accountability."
David has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
As a seasoned trainer and facilitator, Beth’s mission is to help managers and teams collaborate to achieve stellar results.
Beth participated in Interaction Associates’ Essential Facilitation® workshop in 1989, and it changed the trajectory of her career and her life. She joined Interaction Associates as a Senior Consultant in 1999 and has more than 20 years’ experience working in organizational consulting. Prior to joining our team, she worked as a trainer and organizational development consultant at AG Consulting. She has worked internally in organizations as a facilitator, training designer, and deliverer. She has also consulted as an external partner doing the same work.
Beth’s extensive client experience includes engagements with CoStar, Curtis Wright Flow Control, Dick's Sporting Goods, Dolby Laboratories, eBay, General Mills, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Moody’s, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Saks Fifth Avenue, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, Wells Fargo, and Yahoo.
Her IA favorite practice is the one that gets a group of people with disparate experiences to successfully collaborate. She finds it’s different with every group and enjoys introducing different techniques to fresh faces.
Beth holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from California State University-Humboldt. She is certified in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and is a trained Life Coach and Community Mediator.