Biography
Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist, book author, and researcher on the future
of learning. She uses visual language - a combination of words and symbols created
real time on mural-size paper - to facilitate new perspectives and alternative
mind frames during meetings and presentations. She is a senior consultant with
Global Learning Resources (www.glresources.com) working with leadership groups
and educators on strategic communication and innovative learning tools. The latest
of her three books is Claiming Your Creative Self: True Stories from the Everyday
Lives of Women (New Harbinger, 1999).
She is an affiliate of Institute for the Future, where her projects include
the Future of Global e-Education report, the History of Corporate and Executive
Education map, and the Educational Technologies Horizon Map (for the U.S. Department
of Education). With a focus is on multi-media communication and personalized
learning, Eileen's work encourages individual creativity and the alignment of
very different people toward common goals. Before her affiliation with IFTF
began in 1999, Eileen worked as a daily news journalist for 20 years, with special
focus on education and environment. Now that her reporting takes graphic form,
she invokes visual language to capture emerging themes and stories.
In the K-12 arena, Eileen works with the Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory
project (initially funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), which
is developing a teacher-friendly web resource and online learning community,
and the Model Secondary Schools Project (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation),
which is improving high schools in underprivileged communities. In the corporate
arena, Global Learning Resources works with a cross-section of industries on
leading-edge talent strategies and corporate learning programs.
Defining learning as "constructive interaction with change," Eileen
has used Nature's extremophiles - the hardy microorganisms that have adapted
to the harshest conditions - as a metaphor in her research on organizational
resilience. Her paper on extremophiles will appear next Spring in a Cambridge
University Press book, Creating a Learning Culture, which she also illustrated.
Eileen has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
She lives in Bodega Bay, California with her husband, scientist and UC professor
James Clegg.
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