Bob+Stilger+Bio


 * Robert L. Stilger, Ph.D.**

Robert Stilger is Co-President The Berkana Institute ([|http://www.berkana.org]), a Utah based-nonprofit institute which works with pioneering leaders and communities in all types of organizations throughout the world. At Berkana his main work is co-entrepreneuring the Berkana Exchange – an innovative global learning network which supports leadership learning centres in places like Zimbabwe, South Africa, Senegal, Croatia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Holland and England. He plays a key role in developing and using Berkana’s NewWorkSpaces: a social architecture and set of collaborative processes which uses the internet to support learning and collaboration at a distance.

For 25 years, before joining The Berkana Institute in 2000, Stilger was the Executive Director of an innovative community development corporation in the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Regional Facilitators. Stilger along with a small group of other younger leaders all in their mid-twenties founded NRF with a great deal of support from older leaders in Spokane, Washington. His work touched many areas – citizen participation, community organizing, affordable housing, work/family issues, hunger, growth management, community futures, transportation, nuclear waste, community health, nonprofit organization capacity building.

The core of his current work is supporting younger leaders around the world who are stepping forward to provide critical leadership in these times. His doctoral research and continued inquiry in the world is around the emergence of forms of leadership which create new possibilities in our communities. Stilger works as a coach to these younger leaders, helping them name their work, connecting them with others, assisting them in supporting each other, and illuminating their work to the others looking for a sense of what we might do, together.

In addition to his work with The Berkana Institute, Stilger is on the leadership faculty at Gonzaga University and Bainbridge Graduate Institute. He also writes, speaks, and hosts conversations on leadership for transformation.

//Past Employment://
Executive Director, Northwest Regional Facilitators, 1974-2000 Program Director, EXPO '74 Environmental Symposium Series, 1973-4. Assistant Director, Northwest Environmental Communications Network, 1972-3.

//Consultant Services://
Stilger’s consulting work has included the following clients: State of Washington -- Alternatives for Washington Program, State Energy Office, Department of Social and Health Services, Community Trade and Economic Development, and Department Of Energy, Washington State Bicentennial Commission, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Municipal League, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Nebraska State Energy Office, Washington Coalition for Rural Housing, Spokane County, City of Renton St. Mary’s College of California, Adjunct Faculty, Masters of Leadership Program, 2002-03 Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Adjunct Faculty, 2004- Gonzaga University, Adjunct Faculty, Doctorate in Leadership Studies, 2004- Organizational Systems Renewal Masters Program, Distinguished Visiting Faculty, Seattle University, 2007
 * //Teaching Experience://**

//Current Volunteer Services://
Member, Board of Directors, Berkana Institute, 2001-Present Member, Board of Directors, Pioneers of Change, Johannesburg and London, 2001—Present Member, Board of Directors, Kufunda Learning Village, Zimbabwe, 2002—Present Member, Board of Directors, The Shire, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2005 – Present

//Recent Presentations and Conferences//
Shambhala Authentic Leadership Institute Intergenerational Dialogue on Leadership, Halifax, June, 2004 International Leadership Association Conference, Washington D.C., October, 2004 Systems Thinking in Action Conference Intergenerational Dialogue, Boston, December, 2004 The Brazilian Association of Human Resources Congress, Porte Alegre, May, 2005 Global Village Square at the Shambhala Authentic Leadership Institute, Halifax, June, 2005 Washington Family Policy Council Annual Summit, Vancouver, WA, November, 2005 Systems Thinking in Action Conference Concurrent Session, San Francisco, December, 2005 National Summit of the American College of Mental Health Administrators, Santa Fe, March, 2006 Global Village Square at the Shambhala Authentic Leadership Institute, Halifax, June, 2006

//Education://
Carleton College, Bachelor of Arts, 1971 California Institute of Integral Studies, Masters of Human and Organizational Transformation, 1999 PhD in Transformative Learning and Change, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2004

//Contact://
350 East 10th Spokane, WA 99202 (509) 835 4128 bob@berkana.org