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David Dodd		Catherine Gabelica
David Dodd is a freelance business coach with a focus on 1-on-1 Performance Enhancement Coaching for employees at all levels in both commercial and non-profit organizations. As a coach David, facilitates his clients on activating their internal motivators to grow both performance and enjoyment at work (www.awareness-and-change.com). David works on a freelance basis for the 'Institute of Brilliant Failures' (www.brilliantfailures.com), which serves to highlight the importance of experimentation and entrepreneurship to achieve paradigm shifts and breakthrough in innovation. From mid-2000 to end-2009 David worked as a Senior Analyst and Global Topic Specialist at the Boston Consulting Group. A major part of his work at BCG was in consolidating, developing, and applying BCG's knowledge in his specific areas of expertise. Before that David worked for 7 years as a research scientist and project manager on international collaborative projects at the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation. David's contribution will focus both on the idea behind, and case examples from, the Institute of Brilliant Failures, and his key insights as a coach in the context of continual learning.		Catherine is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of Educational Research and Development (ERD) of Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. Her research focuses on team collaboration, more specifically on how teams learn to be effective and how to trigger team learning by using feedback and reflexivity interventions. We know from research that team reflexivity is important to enhance team effectiveness. Yet, teams rarely think of the feedback they receive nor do they regularly and deliberately plan, review, and analyze their actions and strategies to perform better. These interventions aim at helping teams reflect upon their performance and the strategies they use to attain their team goals. The typical questions she tries to answer are:What are the factors supporting team learning?, Why do smart teams fail?, How to initiate, reinforce, support the factors that are shown to be important in team performance and coordination?, and What advices can be given to team leaders, managers, trainers?
Maurice de Greef
Maurice de Greef is a professional singer and will have a release of his first single in 2012. He had his own band for several years and organized a theatre-tour in several theaters in the Netherlands. He started his career in several music- and theatre-productions by playing and singing the main-character. Since several years he's a solo-singer for a lot of concerts and he joined a Big Band in order to perform monthly. Besides this he has a second life: He's master in educational science and started a promotion (PHD) about outcome of adult education to become professor in adult education. He managed local, regional and European projects in innovating learning-environments, strategic policy-making in adult education and developing strategies for approaching learners and realizing new courses in local settings. He trains teachers on these topics. He's member of the national board of non-formal adult education and responsible for the national conferences about adult education. Besides this he's member of the board of the national organization for civil servants of education. He's also project-manager in realizing new learning-environments for minority-groups.