Firms

Vantage Partners is a consulting firm that helps organizations manage relationships with customers, suppliers and alliance partners, and inside the organization.  Their founding competence is in negotiation.  One of the founders, Bruce Patton, is co-author (with Roger Fisher and William Ury) of Getting To Yes. Bruce is also co-author (with Doug Stone and Sheila Heen) of Difficult Conversations.

Designed Learning counts Peter Block among its founders and partners.  It focuses on helping staff groups in the transition to becoming credible consultants within their organizations.

Dialogos does consulting and capacity building in dialogue, as inspired by the late David Bohm.  Founder Bill Issacs is the author of Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together.

Rossmoore & Associates.  Don Rossmoore is a consultant who writes about his ideas and his work and posts his writing on his web page.  One of the models underlying his work is that developed by Chris Argyris and Donald Schön.

See also the links in our Directory of Practitioners.
 

Resources

Pegasus Communications publishes The Systems Thinker and Leverage newsletters, puts on the Systems Thinking In Action Conference, and offers tapes, books, and other resources on organizational learning.

Society for Organizational Learning is a membership organization composed of practitioners in organizations, researchers, and consultants.  Peter Senge is Chairman of SoL.

NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science is a non-profit educational institution offering workshops and courses in skills and technologies for change at all societal levels.

International Association of Facilitators. The Conference Proceedings section includes the full text of concurrent sessions.

Public Conversations Project. Offers training for facilitating conversations on divisive public issues such as abortion, race, and environment. The founders and many of the staff come from a deep background in family therapy.

Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Project is a web-based extension of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, a kind of Whole Earth Catalog for the learning organization community inspired by Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline.  The site offers a wealth of resources and links.

A Primer on Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning. John Shibley offers essays, brief exercises, links, and resources.

The Center for Quality of Management is a non-profit organization that offers educational programs, advisory services, research initiatives, and networking activities that build on a foundation of TQM. Their web site offers the full text of articles from the CQM Journal. Bob Putnam of Action Design, Rafael Echeverria, and CQM co-developed a course in conversational competence for CQM member companies.