Mary Ann Kipp is a recognized facilitator, author and Executive Coach with an uncanny ability to get to the heart of the matter. She has a distinct gift for designing interventions that deliver results.

In the fall of 1998, she created to dream, to discern, to decide™, a multi-phased process for personal mastery featured at the American Management Association's Peter Drucker Forum in the Fall of 1998. She has employed large group methods including Future Search, Open Space Technology and Simu-real, and has developed variations for groups numbering as many as 1,800. In this connection, she devised Mediatation™, a method for "orchestrating the full range of analog and digital technologies to enhance the impact of a facilitated intervention". This method was successfully employed with an international telecommunications company to open its relationship with customers and suppliers, and was showcased at the 1997 Organization Development Network. Most recently she developed a network desktop program for the functionality of teams in virtual environments. In the course of creating Working Remotely, Virtual Teams, and Beyond, she simultaneously revamped the product development process within Ninth House Network, Inc.

Her experience is international in scope and has included such clients as Unilever Holland, Nortel Networks, Polygram Records, British Airways, as well as numerous financial institutions, government, and manufacturing organizations. In addition to partnering with Ninth House Network in the area of innovation, she has designed and facilitated projects in partnership with Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen, author of Innovator's Dilemma. Further, she has joined with Eric von Hipple of MIT in the delivery and modification of the Lead User methodology.

Ms. Kipp comes to her practice from senior managerial roles in Human Resources where she was responsible for innovations in mentoring and for national training initiatives that endure to this day. She authored "Family Business" for McGraw Hill's Handbook of Management Consulting, drawing on prior work in this arena and the experience of her family of origin. She conducts workshops on family-owned business for the President's Forum.

Earlier experience included a faculty position in Business Administration with the College of St. Rose. Ms. Kipp has also counseled executives in career-related issues, was featured in American Demographics' article "Job Shift" and was an advisor to Right Management in the development of their career mastery program.

Ms. Kipp holds a BA from St. Anselm College and a Master's degree from Syracuse University. She is a member of the American Society for Training and Development, the Strategic Leadership Forum, the National Speaker's Association and the Organization Development Network. She chairs the Community in the Workplace initiative for M. Scott Peck's Foundation for Community Encouragement and has developed several white papers in conjunction with this project.