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Presentations

  • Download - Stories Inside Words
  • Download - The Benefits of Constraints: how to discover space in tight places
  • Download - Conversation (with materials and result examples)
  • Download - Communities and Culture
  • Download - The Value of White Spaces in Individual Learning
  • Download - Organizational Storytelling and Innovation
  • Download - Innovating from Surviving to Thriving
  • Download - Keynote Address on Recognizing the Power of Storytelling in Organizations
  • Download - Tools and Technology: The truth behind the myth – good things come in small packages
  • Download - Not a Still Life: Stories inside words
  • Download - Seven Principles of Radical Learning: Holding Up Collapsing Knowledge
  • Download - Riding the current: An introduction
  • Download - Riding the Current: True stories and tested techniques to keep your knowledge fresh and your work alive
  • Download - Students as Partners in Global Learning Design
  • Download - The Center for the Study of Peace
  • Download - Three Silent Questions
    (Note: Three Silent Questions is a large file, please allow adequate time to download)

Facilitation Notes

  • Download - Demonstrating and extracting value from Communities
  • Download - Design for Trust – the Essential Glue

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Attention is at a premium, getting people to focus has become difficult. Madelyn's story telling leaves you with a lasting learning. Every time, with flair and the right balance between bringing the story to life, business relevance, and conciseness."
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Riding the Current

Riding the Current

How to deal with the daily deluge of data

Turn your anxiety and frustration about the information that is raging around you into a calm journey of riding the current, syphoning just what you need from the flow. Don't try to fight it – ride the current... Learn More

Riding the Current Workbook

Riding the Current Workbook

Overcoming Information Overload

Riding the Current Workbook presents graphical exercises that immediately engage the reader as he or she designs a personal journey to keeping knowledge fresh... Learn More

Essays in Two Voices

Essays in Two Voices

Dialogues of discovery

Get to your real thoughts. Essays in Two Voices helps you hone your thinking with a partner, offers a way to get to the essence, appreciates the thoughts of the other, and lets you know when you are done... Learn More

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