Action Learning – An interview with Dr. Michael Marquardt

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Sentient Scholar Radio: Episode 5

“Action Learning – An interview with Dr. Michael Marquardt”

For this episode of Sentient Scholar Radio, we have a special treat. Christine Gibson - Contributing Editor for SentientScholar.com – interviews Dr. Michael Marquardt.

Christine was performing a qualitative research project when she kept stumbling on Dr. Marquardt’s prolific writings on such topics as:

• Action Learning
• Respect as a key to cross-cultural success (and)
• Many others….

Christine was able to interview several of Dr. Marquardt’s distinguished colleagues as part of this project and describes the process in the interview.

A bit about Dr. Marquardt includes:

Dr. Michael Marquardt is Professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs. Mike also serves as President of the “World Institute for Action Learning”.

He has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions with organizations such as Grolier, American Society for Training and Development, Association Management Inc., Overseas Education Fund, TradeTec, and U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Dr. Marquardt has trained more than 95,000 managers in nearly 100 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in 1969. Mike is the author of 20 books and over 100 professional articles in the fields of leadership, learning, globalization and organizational change. Over one million copies of his publications have been sold in nearly a dozen languages worldwide.

He has been a keynote speaker at international conferences in Australia, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, and India as well as throughout North America.

Dr. Marquardt’s achievements and leadership have been recognized though numerous awards including the International Practitioner of the Year Award from the American Society for Training and Development.

Mike is a Fellow of the National Academy for Human Resource Development and a co-founder of the Asian Learning Organization Network. Ramkhamhaeng University in Thailand, and the International Management Centre at Oxford, England have awarded him honorary doctoral degrees for his work and writings in the field of action learning and leadership development. Dr. Marquardt has also done graduate work at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Virginia.

This interview is very impactful and content-rich and is recommended for anyone in management, leadership, or who is responsible for the training and development of others. Leaders will find the interview particularly helpful in their practice, especially those working within a strong cross-cultural or international/global environment.

If you are interested in finding out more specifics about Dr. Marquardt and Action Learning – here is a link to one of his lectures at UMBC on the topic of Action Learning: http://youtu.be/z4GMaUInMfw

There is a PDF summary of one of Dr. Marquardt’s books on Action Learning and the book is available for sale on Amazon.

Optimizing the Power of Action Learning (by Michael J. Marquardt)

We hope you enjoy Christine’s interview with Dr. Marquardt and we welcome your comments and suggestions!!!

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