Claire
Sherry Immediato is founder and president of Heaven & Earth Incorporated.
Her priority is to support those she works with in being true to their highest
aspirations while being fully grounded in the realities of their current
situation. Her special focus is developing the habits, skills and
infrastructure that produce desired
results as simply as possible, particularly in cross-sector contexts. Her
clients have included public sector and non-profit enterprises in health care,
education, and other areas of community service, in addition to divisions of
Fortune 500 corporations.
Sherry is a founding member of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning
and currently serves as the Corporate Secretary (and former Co-Chair) of the
Council of Trustees (www.solonline.org).
She is publisher of SoL's journal, Reflections. She represents SoL in the Re>Think
Health initiative sponsored by the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation (http://rippelfoundation.org/category/initiatives/rethink-health/)
and leads SoL's work on increasing health and well-being in communities.
She
is also Treasurer (and former Chair) of the Board of the Northeast Foundation
for Children (www.responsiveclassroom.org)
and a member of the board of Seeing Things Whole (www.seeingthingswhole.org). She
speaks extensively around the world and has a particular interest in supporting
the development of learning communities in emerging economies. She was a member
of the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools, sponsored by Columbia
University Teachers College and co-author of Using what we have to get the schools we need: A productivity focus for American
education. She is the co-author of Creating
Integrated Care and Healthier Communities, a computer simulation and
learning experience for health care leaders sponsored by the New England
Healthcare Assembly, Innovation Associates and the American Hospital
Association. She was the lead faculty member of the national Public Health
Education Leadership Institute for its duration from 1998-2006, and currently
serves on the faculty of the CDC sponsored national Environmental Public Health
Leadership Institute. She has made presentations at the International System
Dynamics Society, Systems Thinking in Action, the Power of Systems Thinking,
the Organization Development Network, and the Quality of Work Life conferences
and is a contributor to the Fifth
Discipline Fieldbook: The Dance of Change.
She
has most recently served as the president and managing director of the Society
for Organizational Learning from 2001 - 2010. She founded Heaven & Earth
Incorporated in 1996. Ms. Immediato was a Principal with Innovation Associates
from 1983-1996. She has also worked in venture capital and economic development
in both industry and government. She served for four years on the organization
behavior faculty of the Radcliffe College Management Program.
Sherry has Masters degrees in Business Administration and Public Policy from
Harvard University, and is A.B.D. in Organizational Behavior at the Harvard
Business School. Her research has focused on the natural cycles of change in
organizations and how we can work with these forces rather than against them as
both managers and individuals.
E-mail:
sherry@heaven-and-earth.com
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