Jeff Conklin

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Founder, President at CogNexus Group @ CogNexus Group
Napa, CA
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Napa, California, United States, United States
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About Jeff Conklin

Dr. Jeffrey Conklin is the Founder/President of CogNexus Group, a company whose mission is to help gridlocked multi-stakeholder groups resolve the blocks and create robust results. He pioneered the “Dialogue Mapping” technique, which he uses to guide clients safely through the 'adult conversations' that are essential to collaboration, and which he teaches in tutorials and workshops. He has designed and facilitated hundreds of successful meetings and online collaborations. Dr. Conklin seeks opportunities to coach leaders in convening stakeholders with conflicting interests, especially in regional natural resource disputes. Most Recent Project: Lead Consultant on "Delta Dialogues" Facilitation (see Patricia Seybold's article "Tackling a Wicked Problem: Water Issues" below).

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CogNexus Group

Cognexus Group

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Founder, President at CogNexus Group
Napa, CA
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cognexusgroup.com
Employees:
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Jeff Conklin Work Experience Details
  • Cognexus Group
    Founder, President
    Cognexus Group Jan 2012 - Present
    Napa, California
    CogNexus Group works with strategy and policy teams on confronting and managing wicked problems – situations involving disputed knowledge, divergent stakeholders, and, often, a history of failed solution attempts. We bring new skills, tools, and theory to our clients, engaging the whole system in the pursuit of shared understanding of the situation and a growing confidence in the power of lightly structured dialogue. Consistently, the result is shared commitment to inclusive objectives and a road-map for achieving them. Our approach does not ask stakeholders to change -- it creates a container rich enough to safely hold the social and technical complexity of the situation, allowing the natural intelligence of the participants to light the way.
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  • Cognexus Institute, Inc.
    Founder, President
    Cognexus Institute, Inc. Jan 2000 - Present
    Napa, California
    CogNexus Institute is a research, training, and support services company serving policy and strategy teams and organizations. We offer training and support services for issue-based (IBIS) tools, primarily Compendium, which use a question-based approach for capturing and organizing formal and informal knowledge in hypertext ‘issue maps’. Using this approach strategy and policy teams are able to capture decision rationale, increase the rigor of reasoning and quality of evidence used in deliberation and problem solving, coordinate project activities, create shared understanding and shared commitment among stakeholders, and create a coherent and searchable organizational memory of the organization’s knowledge assets.
  • George Mason University, School Of Policy, Government, And International Affairs
    Adjunct Professor
    George Mason University, School Of Policy, Government, And International Affairs Sep 2001 - Dec 2003
    Arlington, Va
    Taught graduate course in Collaborative Technology to adult students in the Program for Social and Organizational Learning (PSOL). (Three semesters)
  • Touchstone Consulting Group
    Chief Scientist
    Touchstone Consulting Group 1996 - 1998
    Washington D.C. Metro Area
    Developed tools and training for consultants on connecting with client needs concerning wicked problems - how to identify them and understand their unique challenges. Oversaw deployment of new products and services, focusing on tools and methods to increase coherence and improve communication within complex projects. Clients were a mix of Federal and commercial.
  • Corporate Memory Systems Inc (Cmsi)
    Chief Scientist
    Corporate Memory Systems Inc (Cmsi) 1991 - 1996
    CMSI licensed the gIBIS technology from MCC and created a graphical IBIS deliberation tool initially called CM/1, then later QuestMap. CM/1-QuestMap won the Best of Show award in the Group Information Sharing category at the first International Groupware Conference in San Jose in 1992. CMSI's largest installations of QuestMap were done at Southern California Edison (SCE), Nabisco, and Nynex. The SCE system has been in continuous use since 1992, has over 100,000 IBIS nodes documenting environmental policy decisions, and was recently converted to Compendium.
  • Mcc (Microelectronics And Computer Technology Corporation)
    Senior Member Technical Staff
    Mcc (Microelectronics And Computer Technology Corporation) 1984 - 1991
    Initially RCA's (and then GE's) liaison to the Software Technology Program, Conklin switched to working directly for MCC as Senior Member Technical Staff in 1987. He work focused on capture of design rationale on large software projects, using Horst Rittel's IBIS notation.

Jeff Conklin Skills

Strategy Research Strategic Planning Management Consulting Program Management Leadership Product Development Policy Teaching Consulting Project Planning Collaboration Tools Training Change Management Creative Problem Solving Workshop Facilitation Public Speaking Government Organizational Development Start Ups Analysis Team Building Business Development Problem Solving Management Dialogue Mapping Sustainability Social Media Team Leadership Issue Mapping Social Networking Software Documentation Sharepoint Strategy Development Natural Resources Policy

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Jeff Conklin attended University Of Massachusetts, Antioch College, Huguenot High School.

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