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Hosting Ensemble: Nancy, Tim, Maggie, Astrid

Nancy White - Full Circle Associates

Nancy causes trouble, shares chocolate and generally has the attention of a gnat. AND...Nancy helps organizations connect, learn and deliver results. Her practice includes online and offline interaction design, facilitator and graphic facilitation. She focuses on NGOs, NPOs, government and communities. Nancy inventively weaves together process and theory to advance practices with people, putting learning at the center with achieving results. She is a passionate practitioner of Liberating Structures. Nancy blogs at http://www.fullcirc.com/ and is co-author with Etienne Wenger and John D. Smith of “Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities.” (http://www.technologyforcommunities.com).

Tim Jaasko-Fisher - Principal Consultant, TJF Consulting

Tim works with people and organizations to build capacity to thrive in complexity. He catalyzes positive change on a strategic, systemic, and individual level. Tim serves as the Director of Internal Capacity Building for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau’s Capacity Building Center for Courts, where he provides consulting, coaching, and advice to a team of national experts working to build courts’ capacity to respond to child abuse and neglect on a systemic level. He has served as the Senior Director of Curriculum and Program Development at the Civility Center for the Law at Seattle University School of Law and was the founding director of the Court Improvement Training Academy (CITA) at the University of Washington School of Law. He was a member of the federal Quality Improvement Center on Youth Representation curriculum team. Tim worked as an Assistant Attorney General for 11 years. He has litigated at all levels of the justice system in Washington State, including administrative tribunals, the Superior Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court.

To learn more about Tim’s work, visit www.TJFConsulting.org.

Maggie Chumbley - Principal Maggie Chumbley Consulting

Maggie has over a decade of experience in working with groups through teaching, facilitation and instructional design. Maggie, a self described high-energy pedagogy geek, using a facilitation approach driven by neuroscience, adult learning, and relational coordination. Her expertise is in instructional design, facilitation, design- thinking and project based learning. In her current work, she consults helping organizations across sectors by facilitating and designing effective meetings, trainings, and events, that foster deep learning and make for lasting initiatives. www.maggiechumbley.com

Astrid Pruitt

Astrid is a competitive backgammon player who, from time to time, dabbles in writing. She currently works as a learning designer, facilitator and coach in Montreal, Canada. Astrid designs with intentionality, listens with deep curiosity, and appreciates a good metaphor. She cares most about creating spaces for divergent thinking, and designing systems , practices and communities where humans can learn and flourish together. Astrid holds a BA in Psychology, as well as East Asian Languages and Literatures from Washington and Lee University, and a post-graduate degree in Enterprising Leadership from Kaospilot, a Danish business and design school.