Core Faculty
Kevin Wheeler
Kevin Wheeler Founder and Chairman the Future of Talent Institute. Kevin started FOTI five years ago out of his passionate belief that organizations need a more powerful and thoughtful architecture for talent than they have. After a 25 year career in corporate America serving as the Senior Vice President for Staffing and Workforce Development at the Charles Schwab Corporation, the Vice President of Human Resources for Alphatec Electronics, Inc. in Thailand, and in a variety of human resources roles at National Semiconductor Corporation, Kevin has firsthand knowledge of the need for better strategies and approaches to finding, developing and retaining people.
Today, Kevin is a globally known speaker, author, teacher and consultant in human capital acquisition and development, as well as in corporate education. He is the author of numerous articles on human resource development, career development, recruiting, and on establishing corporate universities. He is a frequent speaker at conferences. He writes a weekly Internet column on recruiting and staffing, which can be found at www.ere.net, and he and Eileen have written a book on corporate universities, The Corporate University Workbook: Launching the 21st Century Learning Organization. He serves as adjunct faculty at San Jose State University, the University of San Francisco and on the business faculty at San Francisco State University.
Eileen Clegg
Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist, book author and founder of the company Visual Insight creating large-scale, real-time murals for organizations. She works with top leadership invoking visual language to wordlessly introduce the power of emotion and meaning into group communications. Her visual journalism combines contemporary reporting techniques with ancient , universal symbols. Her practice emphasizes metaphor, intuition and story to facilitate business transformation, strategic planning, and team effectiveness. Her clients have included Art Center College of Design, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Federated Department Stores, Starbucks, Edwards Lifesciences, American Society of Training and Development, and the Gates Foundation’s Model Secondary Schools Program. She has worked with Institute for the Future since 1999, Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist for 20 years with emphasis on education and environment. At IFTF, Eileen worked closely with graphic facilitation pioneer David Sibbet before developing her unique visual journalism approach in 2001. Eileen has published and/or illustrated numerous articles and books including: The 21st Century Corporate University (Jossey Bass Pfeiffer, 2005), a chapter in Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge University Press 2004), Claiming Your Creative Self (New Harbinger, 1999.
Jay Cross
Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. He puts breakthough business results ahead of business as usual. His calling is to change the world by helping people learn to learn.
He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn to be productive since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix thirty years ago. Now in its ninth year, Internet Time Group LLC has provided advice and guidance to Cisco, IBM, Sun, Genentech, Merck, Novartis, HP, the CIA, the World Bank, the World Cafe, and numerous others.
He is currently researching and refining informal/web 2.0 learning approaches to foster collaboration and accelerate performance. as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years, was the first to use the term eLearning on the web, and has keynoted major conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. He and his wife Uta live with two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California.
Verna Allee
Verna brings years of experience in working with networks on a global scale. She was an early investigator into how networks form
and into how to extract value from them.
She is Co-founder and CEO of Value Networks LLC, dba ValueNetworks.com (www.valuenetworks.com). ValueNetworks.com is the leading provider of value network visualization and analysis applications. Gartner named ValueNetworks.com as a “Cool Vendor” in 2009.
Ms. Allee has more than twenty years of deep experience in value networks, intangibles, knowledge management, and new business models. She has been a trusted advisor to more than 100 Fortune 1000 companies and has led government agencies, civil society organizations and entrepreneurial startups to harness the power of intangible value for increased efficiency and competitive advantage.
Verna is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, advisor to the European Commission, and sits on a number of Advisory and Editorial Boards including Hazel Henderson’s Ethical Markets television series. She is the author of two books and more than 50 industry articles and papers on value networks and knowledge management.
She began her management career in 1975 as the co-founder of a networked sign manufacturing company. Frustrated by the organizational complexity she found in her early corporate experiences, she organized the new company as a value network – a radical idea at the time. Within five years, the company was handling large installations from Alaska to Florida and revenue had grown to match some of the largest companies in the industry. Determined to carry her insights into global companies, she developed the ValueNet Works™ methodology, which is a methodological cornerstone in broad use today.
Ms. Allee holds a B.A degree in Social Science and International Business from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership and Human Consciousness from JFK University. She is a visiting lecturer at many universities around the world, most notably at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), Greenwich University (London), and Hanken Swedish School of Business (Helsinki).
