Bios for Authors of Action Reflection Learning book

Isabel Rimanoczy

Isabel Rimanoczy is a partner with Leadership in International Management (LIM). She is the founding member of LIM Argentina and has led the set up of LIM’s network in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. She has worked in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia with multinational corporations in the areas of organizational analysis and diagnosis, change and transition management, recruitment, coaching and executive development. Her writings have appeared in North American, South American and European business magazines and academic journals.

Isabel is a Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University and has an MA in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires as well as an MBA from the University of Palermo. In 1994 she discovered Action Reflection Learning in Sweden and has since then researched experiences and further developed the conceptual framework of ARL. She co-authored the first book of ARL as a learning methodology, Action Reflection Learning: Solving Real Business Problems by Connecting Earning with Learning (forthcoming 2008, Davies-Black). She is the author of the Handbook for Mergers and Acquisitions and co-author of the LIM Learning Coach Handbook and the Leader Coach Handbook. She has been editor of a monthly newsletter on management issues (IRNews) and is currently editor of the LIMNews, an electronic publication in its 10^th year.

She has trained over 200 Learning Coaches in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Hong Kong and US and has presented at numerous conferences in Latin America, US, Europe, Africa and Asia. She is a former professor in Human Resources for the master's program at the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Marketing at the School of Tourism, Universidad del Salvador and Organizational Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. She has received the Author Scholarship Sven Ake Nilsson for the contribution to knowledge development and scientific innovation. October 2005. Klippan, Sweden.

Contact Isabel at Isabel.Rimanoczy@LIMglobal.net or

See her blog -- http://isabelrimanoczy.blogspot.com/

Ernie Turner

Ernie Turner is the President of LIM, Leadership in International Management, a global consulting firm focused on development – people and business – using Action Reflection Learning™ principles. Ernie has a BA in English Literature from Wheaton College, Illinois and an MA in Educational Administration from City College, NYC.

Early in his career, over a 10-year period, Ernie worked and lived in Malaysia (with the Peace Corps), then in Angola, Brazil, Italy and Kenya as a teacher and principal with International Schools Services. Subsequently, he led a major organizational change project with the New York City school system working with the New York Urban Coalition, a consortium of corporations investing in major urban change.

For the last 20 years Ernie has been leading LIM. In this capacity he has been building LIM as a company and working on a variety of change initiatives within multinational corporations around the world including merger integration, leadership development, team development and human resource development. Some of the organizations he has personally worked with include: AstraZeneca, Amex, AT&T, Bayer, Berlex, Boskalis, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Chase, Coca-Cola, HSBC, Merck, Motorola, ON Semiconductor, Prudential, JNJ, Shire, StenaLine, Syngenta, Tekra, UNDP and Volvo.

Ernie has written the Intelitec Planning Guide: The Team Approach and co-authored LIM’s Learning Coach Handbook, Leader Coach Handbook, and M&A Handbook. He is one of several collaborating authors on a recent book, Earning While Learning in Global Leadership, recounting Volvo’s 10-year experience using Action Reflection Learning principles and practices. He recently led a cross-functional team of AstraZeneca professionals in writing The Little Book on Teamwork that is currently being used across AstraZeneca. He is a frequent speaker at development conferences. He and Isabel Rimanoczy, one of his partners, have just completed a book, Action Reflection Learning: Solving Real Business Problems by Connecting Earning with Learning due to be released by Davies-Black in early 2008.

Contact Ernie at Ernie.Turner@LIMglobal.net

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