Uncommit: How Do We Stop So We Can Start Doing What Really Matters

Presenters

Cheryl Gould, Principal, Learning Facilitator, Fully Engaged Libraries, Petaluma, California, is a learning facilitator and training consultant who believes in the transformative role libraries can play in their communities. Cheryl’s professional role is to help libraries with the culture shift required to move from an institution that provides access to resources to one that promotes conversation, learning and engagement at all levels. Cheryl’s ability to connect people and ideas, to facilitate conversation and to enhance learning has been demonstrated through 23 years of working with libraries in thousands of hours of consulting, mentoring and training. Her work is a synergy of her background in anthropology, her passion for learning crossed with current developments in neuroscience and her involvement with applied improvisation to create cultures of “Yes, And”. http://fullyengagedlibraries.com/

Sam McBane Mulford, strategist at Ideation Collaborative has consulted with libraries as well as other public and not for profit agencies for over twenty years. Her design career has been focused in strategic initiatives, process design and facilitation, and creating environments that empower organizations to achieve their vision and goals.

Sam brings inquisitiveness and a risk-embracing attitude to work and life - and her mom swears her first word was "Why?" Once answers reveal themselves, she's committed to helping libraries develop strategic perspective through dialogue around "What if, What then, How might we?"