IFAL--USA, International Foundation for Action Learning

Action Learning: Assessing the Value

Following our successful experience of March 2008, we invite practitioners, academics and managers to a second International conference to share ideas and advance the practices of action learning worldwide.  The conference will interest all those concerned with action learning for personal development and systems improvement in commercial, public service, SME’s ‘third sector’ and community contexts. It will employ interactive methods of working and have a delegate limit of 120 people.  As the editorial team of Action Learning: Research and Practice we aim to convene a conversation between diverse perspectives via thematic provocations, papers, presentations, workshops and refl ective plenary sessions. Amongst those themes illuminating Action Learning:

Assessing the Value are:

• Addressing the wicked issues & asking the hard questions in organisations and societies
• Sustainability, survival & revival in businesses & communities
• Creating new energies and working with differences
• Making spaces & working across professional, organisational and cultural boundaries
• Research & evaluation in assessing outcomes & impacts

This conference is organised by a group associated with the Journal Action Learning: Research and Practice, a Special Issue of which will follow the conference.  The team comprises: Mike Pedler (Henley Business School); Kiran Trehan (University of Lancaster); Jeff Gold (Leeds Metropolitan University); Aileen Lawless (Liverpool John Moores University), David Coghlan, (Trinity College, Dublin), Clare Rigg (Institute of Technology, Tralee), Sue Pritchard (Bath Consultancy Group); Helen James (Henley Business School) with support from Joe Raelin (Northeastern University, USA).