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Marvin Weisbord

Founder: Future Search Network (FSN), an international non-profit that has spread effective strategic planning worldwide

Writing: Productive Workplaces Revisited: Organizing and managing for dignity, meaning, and community; Co-author with Sandra Janoff — Future Search: An action guide to finding common ground in organizations; Communities, 2nd edition (Berrett-Koehler 2000); Don't Just Do Something, Stand There: Ten principles for leading meetings the matter (Berrett-Koehler 2007)

Notable: Pioneered the "whole system in the room" principle of large group intervention that transforms the capability of diverse groups for cooperative action

Awards: “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the international Organizational Development Network which also named his book Productive Workplaces one of the most influential OD books of the past 40 years