PETER A.C. SMITH
Peter A.C. Smith is President of The Leadership Alliance Inc. (TLA), a wholly "complex adaptive system" globally based consortium of Associates, all of whom are authorities in their own disciplines. Peter himself maintains a worldwide consulting practice assisting leading public and private sector organizations enhance performance by optimizing activities related to Interactive Design, and critical sustainability and innovation drivers such as knowledge management, organizational learning, entrepreneurship, and complexity leadership.
Through his research and practice in Triple Bottom Line Sustainability, Leadership Development, Dynamic Complexity, Network Visualization & Analysis, Innovation, and Complex Adaptive Systems, Peter has developed unique understanding and in-depth expertise in today's sustainability and leadership paradigms, and in the essentials of formal and informal leadership in traditional and newly emerging highly networked organizational settings. This includes very practical methods for the identification of informal Opinion Leaders and Initiative/Change Champions (the people in the organization “that really get things done”) which enables their views to be explored and their influence leveraged appropriately – keys to enhancing Social Capital and successfully implementing any significant organizational undertaking.
The breadth of Peter’s practical hands-on
management experience has proven invaluable in
ensuring that he can relate to the problems and
pressures faced by organizations in today’s
complex and ambiguous global environments, and
it is fundamental to framing his research
interests which include Triple Bottom Line
Sustainability, strategic capital,
knowledge management, organizational learning,
social capital, entrepreneurialism, innovation,
networks, complex systems, complexity
leadership, digital platforms and related emerging paradigms.
Prior to establishing his consulting practice Peter held various senior positions with Exxon in New York and across North America in I/T, HR, R&D, Operations, and Mathematics. In 1990 as an Exxon representative he was one of the founding associates of Peter Senge’s Organizational Learning Center (OLC) at MIT, and during the period 1990-94, first as an Exxon representative and later as an independent consultant for TLA, he participated in various systems thinking, microcomputer simulation, and system dynamics activities and projects through the OLC. During this period he also became a TLA associate of Interact, the Philadelphia-based consultancy headed by the late Dr. Russel Ackoff. and by Dr. Jamshid Gharajedaghi.
Peter is a Member, Centre for Business Information, Organisation & Process Management, at University of Westminster Business School, UK. He has served as Professor of Management Learning Processes with the Canadian School of Management, as Executive Director of The International Foundation for Action Learning- Canada, and as Chair of the International Community of Action Learners. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, and Consulting and Special Issues Editor of The Learning Organization. He is also Associate Editor (Practitioners) for the International Journal of Sociotechnology & Knowledge Management. Peter has had published more than fifty academic papers on a broad range of topics related to performance enhancement, including chapters in “The Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information & Knowledge Management”, “The Handbook of Business Strategy” and ““Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design And Social Networking Systems”. Peter is in demand internationally as a speaker, workshop leader and conference chair.
Email: pasmith@tlainc.com
Tel Canada: +1 (905) 908-2172
Cel Canada: +1 (905) 806-6321
Tel UK: +44 (0)203-371-8820
Mob UK: +44 (0)776-215-5747
Mail: The Leadership Alliance Inc.
2 – 30 Laguna Parkway
Brechin, Ontario L0K 1B0
CANADA
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