Victoria J. Marsick is Professor of Adult Learning & Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College where she directs academic programs in Adult Learning and Leadership. Before joining Teachers College, Victoria worked extensively in Asia and other countries with not-for-profit organizations, and directed staff development and training at UNICEF. While at Columbia, Victoria has worked with organizations to design, develop and implement informal learning and leadership in

Hosted by Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon of the US Academy of Professional Dialogue. Tzofnat is a scholar-practitioner studying the cultural, social, and psychological dynamics underlying the transformation of relationships and conflict. Tzofnat’s experience comes from her work in Israel with Democratic Schools where students and staff members have an equal vote on decision making and conflict resolution. These schools are based on the underlying assumption that a child who ex

Tom O’Connor brings an enviable and varied history to the practice of dialogue. He has degrees in law, philosophy, theology and counseling. He spent nine years as a wondering monk, a friar within the Catholic religious order of the Carmelites. He led of team of 24 chaplains and over 2,000 volunteers who co-created a model of humanistic, spiritual and religious prison chaplaincy within the Oregon Department of Corrections that reduced recidivism. All of this broad experience h