Peter Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning. Senge's work focuses on enhancing the capacity of leaders to work productively toward common goals. His work places human values at the cornerstone of the workplace, proposing that vision, purpose, reflectiveness, and systems thinking are essential for organizations to realize their potentials. The Journal of Business Strategy named him a "Strategist of the Century," one of twenty-four men and women who have "had the greatest impact on the way we conduct business".

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Charlotte Roberts is the co-author of cutting-edge leadership books with her colleagues Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and George Roth, including "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization," a practical guidebook used for creating an enduring competitive advantage. Their second Fieldbook, "The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations" maps a pathway to sustaining system-wide change beyond the leadership team's personal drive and commitment.

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Miha Pogacnik (Po-gah-chnik) is president of the Institute for Development of Intercultural Relations through the Arts (IDRIART), where he has directed the "Annual Art and Business Conference", in Castle Borl-Ankenstein, Slovenia since 1998, attracting participants from around the globe. He has also orchestrated 180 intercultural festivals and exploratory learning journeys around the world. 

Pogacnik demonstrates that art is a significant force for leadership, productivity, creativity, and renewal. He offers an original response to today's quest of the world for creativity. A former Fulbright Scholar renowned for setting the world standard in "Art and leadership", he has exceptional capacity to inspire leaders to "think out of the box". His cutting edge approach fuels individual development and sheds new perspectives on strategy. 

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Robert B. Denhardt is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Delaware. Dr. Denhardt is a Past President of the American Society for Public Administration, and the founder and first chair of ASPA's National Campaign for Public Service, an effort to assert the dignity and worth of public service across the nation. He is also a member of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration and a Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Management Development.

Denhardt has published fourteen books, including, Theories of Public Organization, Public Administration: An Action Orientation, In the Shadow of Organization, The Pursuit of Significance, Executive Leadership in the Public Service, The Revitalization of the Public Service, and Pollution and Public Policy.

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Mark McMahon is an accomplished artist and resident of Chicago, Illinois. As a youth, budding artist Mark McMahon attended Whiteman School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, home to several Olympic ski jumpers. As his career advanced, he made his home in Chicago. Now a successful artist, McMahon displays his paintings, drawings and murals in museums and galleries around the United States and abroad.

McMahon's documentary paintings of the launching of a NASA space shuttle have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. An eight-foot-by-125-foot ceramic tile mural near downtown Chicago portrays Windy City life, and the millions who travel through O'Hare International Airport see his work throughout the facility.

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Maria F. Spaulding was Executive Director Wake County Human Services (WCHS, retired January 1, 2007). Spaulding originally joined Wake County in December 1985 as personnel director and in 1990 served as assistant county manager for Human Services and Community Development. In 1996, when special legislation was passed by the General Assembly to form the Department of Wake County Human Services, Spaulding was tapped as executive director.

Prior to working with Wake County, Spaulding served 13 years in state government in numerous capacities including two appointments as assistant secretary for the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development (NRCD), as NRCD personnel director, and as special assistant to the secretary of the Department of Administration.

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