Juanita brown world cafe biography of martin

Juanita Brown, the founder of Whole Systems Associates, collaborates as a thinking partner and design advisor to create and host forums for constructive dialogue on critical organizational and societal issues. With her partner David Isaacs, Juanita is the co-originator of the World Café, an innovative approach to large group dialogue which is rapidly spreading throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific Rim.

The World Café is being used in a growing number of community, corporate, governmental, health, educational, NGO and church settings to access a higher collective intelligence in situations of entrenched conflict.

Juanita served as a Senior Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School's Organizational Learning Center where she participated as a member of the Core Team of the Center's Dialogue Project, one of the early research initiatives in this field.

She has also served as an Associate with the Norwegian Center for Leadership Development,