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=== Bio ===
=== Biosketch ===


In 1987, I founded Bosserman & Associates, Inc.—a management consulting firm specializing in strategic framing and organizational design. My primary focus is in sustainable local economic development through strategies that complement emerging trends in markets, technologies, and patterns of work. These strategies establish a healthy and sustainable interplay between global and local economies; distribute power through non-linear interactions and connections within and across organizations and communities; foster adaptive and integrated decision structures; and, converge ideas, energies, resources, and skills into meaningful, collective action.
My independent career in strategic framing and organization design began in 1987.  Since then I have provided professional consulting services as founder of Bosserman & Associates, Inc., now in its 30th year, and as co-founder of WorkSpan, Inc. which operated during the 1994 - 2001 period.


During the 1994 to 2001 period, I co-founded WorkSpan, Inc.—a consulting firm specializing in systems change strategies for land-grant universities, foundations, government agencies, and professional societies. Services included: delivery of leadership for institutional change workshops; development of internal strategies for change predicated on convening and facilitating conversations that would not occur otherwise; and coaching of individuals / teams dedicated to influence organizational performance.
Given the expectations defined by grants and contracts covering my work, I have had the opportunity to serve a global client base that represents the private, public, and nonprofit / voluntary sectors as well as collaborate with a diverse, far-flung network of skilled, creative, and profound individuals.


Currently, I am consulting to the Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative (iAGRI), a USAID Feed the Future project that, in its own words, "...aims to strengthen training and collaborative research capacities of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and the Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC) with the goal of improving food security and agricultural productivity in Tanzania."
My deliverables include: presentations, workshops, and webinars; face-to-face and virtual coaching and team training sessions; and, publications, e.g., books and book chapters, professional journal and trade magazine articles, and open source social media both as author / co-author.


This project has given me the opportunity to continue to develop many of the concepts first outlined in the book, Together We Can: Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M, I co-authored with Dr. Edward A. Hiler about his longstanding career in academe and our shared client-consultant experiences implementing a comprehensive institutional change strategy within the Agriculture Program at the Texas A&M University System.
Over the past thirty years, the primary focus of my work can be summarized as adaptive local economic development. Entering the fourth decade, I want to learn more about why people spend time as they do; how technology impacts the choices people make with their use of time; and what time-use alternatives people can make, individually and collectively, that enable them to adapt to changing conditions, meet their basic needs, and enjoy a reasonable quality of life with less effort.  To facilitate this learning I am expanding my involvement with fellow members of a timebank I co-founded in my community, collaborating with my P2P colleagues in documenting what I'm learning along the way, and fulfilling a promise to my brother before he passed that I would finish a book about time he and I drafted twenty years ago. 
 
Let the fun of this next chapter begin!
 
====Current P2P Projects====
[[Infrastructures for Relocalized Economies]]

Latest revision as of 18:31, 20 January 2017

Biosketch

My independent career in strategic framing and organization design began in 1987. Since then I have provided professional consulting services as founder of Bosserman & Associates, Inc., now in its 30th year, and as co-founder of WorkSpan, Inc. which operated during the 1994 - 2001 period.

Given the expectations defined by grants and contracts covering my work, I have had the opportunity to serve a global client base that represents the private, public, and nonprofit / voluntary sectors as well as collaborate with a diverse, far-flung network of skilled, creative, and profound individuals.

My deliverables include: presentations, workshops, and webinars; face-to-face and virtual coaching and team training sessions; and, publications, e.g., books and book chapters, professional journal and trade magazine articles, and open source social media both as author / co-author.

Over the past thirty years, the primary focus of my work can be summarized as adaptive local economic development. Entering the fourth decade, I want to learn more about why people spend time as they do; how technology impacts the choices people make with their use of time; and what time-use alternatives people can make, individually and collectively, that enable them to adapt to changing conditions, meet their basic needs, and enjoy a reasonable quality of life with less effort. To facilitate this learning I am expanding my involvement with fellow members of a timebank I co-founded in my community, collaborating with my P2P colleagues in documenting what I'm learning along the way, and fulfilling a promise to my brother before he passed that I would finish a book about time he and I drafted twenty years ago.

Let the fun of this next chapter begin!

Current P2P Projects

Infrastructures for Relocalized Economies