Advisory Board
Members of the WIAL Advisory Board include internationally recognized thought leaders and proponents of Action Learning.
1. Nick Hixson, Chair (UK)
- CEO, (38 years) Hixson Business Consultants, which provides strategic planning and business growth as well as auditing, accounting services to many UK businesses
- Member, Peter Drucker Global Forum
- Past Executive –Southern Quality Services, Starspire Limited, and Smith & Williamson
2. Agata Dulnik (Poland)
- Worked and consulted at Accenture, Microsoft, Dell,, Intel, United Technologies, Ernst & Young, Cisco, and Shell
- Member, Peter Drucker Global Forum
- Author of 2 books and several articles on leadership, management, organizational behavior and learning
3. Jane McConnell (France-USA)
- Advisor-Facilitator: 20 years with healthcare, industrial, service organizations, UN agencies
- Author: Book “The Gig Mindset Advantage – A Bold New Breed of Employee”. 2021. Articles: HBR, MITSM, Drucker
- Researcher: 10 annual surveys & reports 2006 – 2016: Organization in the Digital Age (300-400 organizations around the world),
- Video podcast host: Imaginize.World: activists, scifi visionaries and pioneering organizations about the future we need to be building and how to do it. 2023-present (ASTD)
4. Kimo Kippen (USA)
- Past Chief Learning Officer (CLO) for Hilton International Hotels and Marriott
- Names CLO of Year in 2018 by CLO Magazine
- Past Vice-President Renaissance Hotels and Resorts
- Past Chair of Board of Directors of American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
5. Luciana Rabay (Brazil)
- CEO of Braziliant, which has provided marketing and business consultation to large corporations and small businesses throughout Brazil and in Europe and the US
- Past Marketing Manager, Tridion
- Professor, ICSP University
6. M. Ian Blanchard (Caribbean)
- Founder & Managing Director of CILC; A Coaching & Family Business Advisory Firm
- Past CEO of two Caribbean Telecommunication Companies
- Past EVP Transformation for Cable & Wireless Caribbean
- MBA – International Business Brunel University
7. Magdalene Mook (Poland-USA)
- CEO and Executive Director of International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- Vice-President of American Association of Business Executives
- Past Director of Council of US State Governments
- Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics and Copenhagen Business School
8. Mary Kay Vona (USA)
- Principal, Ernst & Young, People Advisory Services
- Past Executive Vice-President, Aon Consulting
- Past Partner, Global Learning, IBM/Price Waterhouse
- Adjunct Professor, Vanderbilt University in Consultation/Leadership
9. Rita Meyerson (USA)
- Organizational Change Consultant and Leadership & Team Coach to Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, leading non-for-profits, think tanks, higher education, and PE/VC funded start-up enterprises
- Previously Director in corporate communications and human resources at the American Express Company and Change Management Consultant at Willis Towers Watson and Accenture
- Adjunct Professor at George Washington University in the Organizational Leadership and Learning Masters Program
10. Shannon Banks (UK)
- Founder and CEO of Be Leadership, a leadership development company focused on social leadership development, since 2015
- 20 years business leadership in the technology industry, including 17 years at Microsoft
- Author of Because: 12 Essential Skills for Connecting How You Lead with Why, published in October 2023
11. V. Ganesh Varatharajoo (Malaysia)
- 29 years of experience in Supply Chain Management. Head of Supply Chain for Dome Cafe Malaysia
- Director and advisor for Sree Sky Technology, and Life Timepiece company
- Doctorate in Strategic Management
