A team of veteran higher education consultants and organizational development facilitators have joined ranks to offer proven, affordable solutions to help colleges and universities adapt to BIG change expeditiously.
Kevin Kelly, has contributed to higher education for twenty years as author, professor, consultant (at institutional level and state system level). He is co-editor of “Education for a Digital World 2.0 : Innovations in Education”. Kevin and Sandy Hirtz authored a very important chapter in this 1000 page textbook called, “Stakeholder Issues for Adopting a Learning Infrastructure”.
Lenny Lind, author of ‘Virtuous Meetings” and “Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision Making” founded Covision Design. His work began with an IBM system called Group Decision Making Support System (GPSS). He and a number of organizational development experts spent twenty-five years honing the Design + Facilitation process that is pre-requisite to the technology being successful. It was their belief that the technology application alone was limited in achieving it’s maximum value.
The WebStudy Foundation founders, Gisele Larose and Curt Corbi formerly ran a regional LMS Product Service System (PSS) that ceased operations in 2019.
People closest to the problem create change. Gisele has leveraged her core training in the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) to map the vision for what might work systematically to create meaningful change. This model is taught to Occupational therapist practitioners to apply tools to guide their assessment and reasoning process, effect change, and measure the impact of their intervention in rehabilitation.
MOHO takes a holistic approach. MOHO considers human beings to be an open system consisting of volitional, habituation, and performance capacity and considers how these three aspects interact with each other and the environment.
Over twenty years serving higher education, Curt and Gisele learned impactful lessons serving numerous customers (faculty, staff and administrators) within a single customer account.
Hence, the perfect storm of marrying the groups’ expertise to bring innovative methodologies to the current crisis higher education is facing.