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Background: (Info. sourced and condensed from http://apegga.org)
The APEGGA Mentoring Conference annually brings together mentors, program coordinators, managers/supervisors, as well as educators, health care workers and members of various professions.
The conference theme for this year is "Mentoring: A Global Perspective". The conference provides an opportunity to learn about best practices for programs to share useful tools and techniques, and to discover new research and resources.
LIST OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (short biographies follow; see LINKS listed below):
David Clutterbuck, Ph.D.Rey Carr, Ph.D.
Tuulikki Juusela, M.Sc.
Dr. Belle Ragins
David Clutterbuck, Ph.D.
David Clutterbuck, Ph.D. is one of Europe's most prolific and well-known management writers and thinkers. He has written nearly 50 books and hundreds of articles on cutting edge management themes. Co-founder of The European Mentoring and Coaching Council, David is the Practice Lead of the thriving international consultancy, Clutterbuck Associates, which specialises in helping people in organisations develop the skills to help others. David is perhaps best-known in recent years for his work on mentoring, on which he consults around the world. His 12 books on mentoring and coaching include the classic Everyone needs a mentor, as well as Learning Alliances, Mentoring in Action, Mentoring Executives and Directors, Techniques in Coaching and Mentoring, Making Coaching Work and Coaching Teams at Work.
Listed as one of the top 25 most influential thinkers in the field of Human Resources in the HR Magazine sponsored survey and described by The Sunday Independent as second in the list of top business coaches in the UK, David is an Honorary Vice President of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is visiting professor at both Sheffield Hallam University and Oxford Brookes University and is active in a charity he co-founded to develop new ways of using mentoring and coaching style approaches to support young people with learning or social disabilities.
Rey Carr, Ph.D.
Rey Carr is the Chief Knowledge Officer for Peer Resources, an international training and publishing corporation with its main office in Victoria, British Columbia.
He is one of the world's experts on peer assistance, mentoring, and coaching and has written and published extensively in these areas. Rey was the team leader and architect for the National Stay-in-School Peer mentoring strategy initiated by the Canadian government, and between 1992 and 1995 brought together 100,000 young people with 30,000 adult mentors.
He is one of the world's experts on peer assistance, mentoring, and coaching and has written and published extensively in these areas. Rey was the team leader and architect for the National Stay-in-School Peer mentoring strategy initiated by the Canadian government, and between 1992 and 1995 brought together 100,000 young people with 30,000 adult mentors.
Tuulikki Juusela, M.Sc.
Areas of Expertise
Tuulikki has a M.Sc. focussed on psychology, national economics, social policy and statistics and has had many scholarships from home and abroad. A Finnish citizen, she owns a training and public relations company as well as an antiques business. Named for the Finnish Goddess of the Woods, Tuulikki has good knowledge, in addition to her native Finnish, of Swedish, English and German with a fair knowledge of Spanish.
The breadth of her skills become apparent when one reviews some of the positions she has held including Executive Director for the Finnish Council for Health Education. Always active at an international level, she has also been a member of the Executive Committee for the European Union for Health Education and the International Union for Health Education. Tuulikki has been the Head of the Statistical Office of the Finnish Municipal Association and Researcher for the Statistical Office of Finland.
Dr. Belle Ragins
Areas of Expertise
Dr. Ragins teaches, consults, and conducts research on mentoring, diversity, and gender issues in organizations. She is an internationally recognized scholar on mentoring and diversity, and has written more than 70 papers for presentation at national and international conferences and for publication in the nation's leading academic journals. Her work on mentoring and the glass ceiling has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, U.S. News and World Report, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Working Woman Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Business Week Online and over 30 city newspapers throughout North America.
Dr. Ragins teaches, consults, and conducts research on mentoring, diversity, and gender issues in organizations. She is an internationally recognized scholar on mentoring and diversity, and has written more than 70 papers for presentation at national and international conferences and for publication in the nation's leading academic journals. Her work on mentoring and the glass ceiling has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, U.S. News and World Report, Barron’s, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Working Woman Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Business Week Online and over 30 city newspapers throughout North America.
Dr. Ragins is co-author of Mentoring and Diversity: An International Perspective (with David Clutterbuck), and co-editor of The Handbook of Mentoring at Work (with Kathy Kram) and Exploring Positive Relationships at Work (with Jane Dutton).
