Madelyn Blair, PhD
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.

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Essays in Two Voices

"In a world where all we have time for is a tweet, E2V offers a vehicle for more meaningful dialogue and connection. I urge you to give it a go!"
Lesley Diaz, Human Viewpoint

"E2V provides opportunities for meeting the basic human needs of being listened to and being considered."
Bruce T. Smith, MD Psychiatrist

"I hope that before too long Essays in Two Voices will emerge as a conventional 'positive psychology intervention'"
Mike Sands, Consultant

"To me the process of Essays in Two Voices is a good reflective discipline for distilling a significant amount of thinking, without excessive verbiage."
Jane McKenzie, England

"The Essays in Two Voices process helps us deepening and widening our thoughts. I love the silence which has been a friend in the process."
Bernard Tollec, Managing Director, Involve Consulting, Paris.

Essays in Two Voices designed for those times when you want to move beyond agreement and get to real, deep understanding. At the same time, you don't want it to take forever. How to keep each voice in the conversation? How to bring the thinking to its essence? How to know when you are done? Essays in Two Voices tackles all of these questions, offering a simple to understand and follow process that helps you to speak to the world and to do so together.

Essays in Two Voices is for when you want to:

  • Create and share ideas
  • Develop a common vision
  • Build a beginning relationship
  • Rebuild or deepen relationships
  • Create community
  • Build hope
  • Clarify your thinking
  • Just talk something out
  • Level the playing field between unequal partners
  • Create a safe space to get to know each other
  • Discover real understanding

About Madelyn Blair, Ph.D.

Madelyn is known for her energy and clarity of message. She is an authority in management and leadership issues, in the use of story and narrative in organizational settings, knowledge management, organizational learning, and in the critical area of overcoming information overload. She draws from over 25 years in management and executive positions, and from her extensive work with clients such as the International Monetary Fund, and Brookings Institute.

Past Speaking Engagements

"In a world where all we have time for is a tweet, E2V offers a vehicle for more meaningful dialogue and connection. I urge you to give it a go!"

Lesley Diaz, Human Viewpoint

"E2V provides opportunities for meeting the basic human needs of being listened to and being considered."

Bruce T. Smith, MD Psychiatrist

"This book is a must-read for anyone who takes his or her self-development seriously. Riding the Current lays out technique after technique for staying abreast of everything that is relevant, navigating the overwhelming sea of knowledge, and using it all to your advantage."

Seth Kahan, VisionaryLeadership.com

"A fresh take on personal knowledge management. Madelyn Blair leads us on a fascinating journey with many unexpected twists and turns. Along the way, we get a multitude of tools, techniques and insights to help keep our knowledge fresh."

Steve Denning, author of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling.

"To me the process of Essays in Two Voices is a good reflective discipline for distilling a significant amount of thinking, without excessive verbiage."

Jane McKenzie, England

"The Essays in Two Voices process helps us deepening and widening our thoughts. I love the silence which has been a friend in the process."

Bernard Tollec, Managing Director, Involve Consulting, Paris.

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