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The LIM Team of Professionals

LIM LLC, USA

Ernie Turner, President and Partner, has thirty years of experience, working with a wide variety of international corporations in developing high-performing teams and leaders, managing organizational change, making mergers work and executive coaching. He has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America. Ernie is the author of the lntelitec Program Planning Guide: The Team Approach and has co-authored articles on teamwork and Action Reflection Learning for the American Management Association Management Review and the ASTD Journal. Ernie has an MA in Educational Administration from City College in New York and a BA in English Literature from Wheaton College.

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Tony Pearson, Partner, brings twenty years of line management experience to his consulting and coaching work in organizational change, leadership and team development and gender work. Tony has helped companies in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe and Africa to improve the skills of managers at all levels. He has been a presenter at the national conferences of the American Management Association, the Organization Development Network and the American Society for Training and Development. His writing has been published in Training & Development. Tony has an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College, Colombia University and a BA from Oxford University, England, in French and Italian Literature.

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Isabel Rimanoczy, Partner, is LIM's Regional Manager for Latin America, and is the founding member of LIM, Argentina. She has worked in North America, Latin America and Europe with multinational corporations in the areas of organizational analysis and diagnosis, change and transition management, recruitment, coaching and executive development. Her writings have appeared in North American, South American and European business magazines. Isabel received a degree in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA from the University of Palermo. She is a former professor in Human Resources for the master's program at the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires.

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Willie C. Anderson, Partner, joined LIM after a variety of management positions at Amoco and BP Amoco where he successfully implemented several major change efforts including performance management, supplier alliances, diversity, cost leadership and college recruiting. Willie led the following departments during his tenure: refining operations, maintenance, engineering, inspection, project management, alliances and procurement. Through 20 years of management experience he was a talented Leader/Coach at Amoco and now has become a LIM Learning Coach working with teams and leaders. Willie has organized and now manages LIM's Learning Coach Certification Program and has helped develop LIM's Making Mergers Work array of services. Willie holds an MBA from The College of William and Mary and a BSME from the University of Virginia. He also is a licensed professional engineer.

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Mauricio Cardenas, Associate, is the former Director of the Business and Community Development Extension Program at the lnstituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico D.F. campus. He was Director of Organizational Studies and the Human Resource Management Graduate Program at Los Andes University Business School in Bogota, Colombia. Mauricio is also a visiting faculty at the Bryan School of Business at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. In the private sector, he has consulted with companies in the oil, pharmaceutical, electrical appliances, banking, dairy products and food marketing industries. He received an MA in Latin American Studies at Ohio University and an MA in Technology and Modernization/International Studies from the University of Denver.

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Beena Sharma, in her last executive position, was Group Vice President, Management Learning and Development, with a large conglomerate of businesses in India.

Beena, having been a Practice Leader in Whole-system Change efforts, and Large Scale Interactive Processes during her consulting years, brings with her significant experience in facilitating organizational development, including change strategies, and designing and anchoring change efforts.

A British Council Scholar from India in the field of developing Thinking Skills and proficient in the teaching of Creativity, Beena is currently a certified Learning Coach and actively works with LIM in consulting assignments as well as helping develop the LIM business in the North America region.

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Lynn H. Gray, Associate, has worked with large systems change over the last 30 years. He has pioneered education reforms in NYC and other urban centers involving administrators, teachers, parents, students, unions, community, political and business stakeholders in forging coalitions and partnerships that work. In the process Lynn has developed innovative leadership development, team development and organization development programs and has personally coached many future leaders along the way. One of Lynn's strengths is his ability to help others see the "big picture" and mobilize energy and enthusiasm for change. Lynn has been instrumental in developing LIM's Making Mergers Work array of services. Lynn holds an M Div. Degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a BA in philosophy and sociology from Wheaton College.

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LIM ASIA/Asia Pacific

Ernie Turner, Executive Chairman, has thirty years of experience, working with a wide variety of international corporations in developing high-performing teams and leaders, managing organizational change, making mergers work and executive coaching. He has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and North America. Ernie is the author of the lntelitec Program Planning Guide: The Team Approach and has co-authored articles on teamwork and Action Reflection Learning for the American Management Association Management Review and the ASTD Journal. Ernie has an MA in Educational Administration from City College in New York and a BA in English Literature from Wheaton College.

Willie C. Anderson, Director, joined LIM after a variety of management positions at Amoco and BP Amoco where he successfully implemented several major change efforts including performance management, supplier alliances, diversity, cost leadership and college recruiting. Willie led the following departments during his tenure: refining operations, maintenance, engineering, inspection, project management, alliances and procurement. Through 20 years of management experience he was a talented Leader/Coach at Amoco and now has become a LIM Learning Coach working with teams and leaders. Willie has organized and now manages LIMs Learning Coach Certification Program and has helped develop LIM's Making Mergers Work array of services. Willie holds an MBA from The College of William and Mary and a BSME from the University of Virginia. He also is a licensed professional engineer.

Victor Miranda, Managing Partner LIM Asia-Pacific

Ana Emilia Ruby B. Palma, Consultant, LIM Asia-Philippines, Ruby Palma finished her Business Degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines, Dolman, and Masters in Business Administration from the Ateneo De Manila University in the Philippines. She also took short-term post degree management courses from IMD in Switzerland.

Ruby Palma is seasoned Human Resource professional with demonstrated and recognized strengths in organizational development (OD) and strategic learning and development (l&d). She played a key role in the development and management of an Outstanding Personnel Program awarded by the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines in 1998. Shortly before doing active consulting, she served as Regional Learning and Development Director AstraZeneca in Asia Pacific where she designed the strategic learning agenda, ensuring robust development options for 14 markets in the region, while contributing to the L&D initiatives globally through proactive involvement in the Global L&D network of the company. She shows solid track record in both specialist & generalist roles in the Pharmaceutical industry. Previous to her role in the Asian Region, she was Human Resource Director of the Philippine operations. In this role, she played a strategic part in the merger and integration of two and drove the “evolution” of the new culture, led and navigated change, designed employee communication strategies, and managed a 20-strong HR and Admin team. After having been exposed to the Action Reflection Learning of LIM in 2002, she has focused her efforts in setting up propagating the approach in LIM Philippines. Currently, she conducts workshops, one-on-one and team coaching with managers and employees. A big picture thinker, expertise include a keen sensitivity and ability to develop and motivate high performing teams, develop leader-coaches, coach executives, coach people in transition, and a flair for understanding individual & organizational values that season the HR function.

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LIM LATIN AMERICA

Ronald Waugh, LIM Partner, has been working since 1999 to support LIM's global and Latin American leadership development efforts from his base in Santiago, Chile. Born and raised in the United States, Ron has worked extensively in Europe, where was a senior executive in a large, global manufacturing concern, responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Planning. He has significant experience with organizational change and organizational culture, and was part of an executive team that successfully led the company through a global reorganization, a change of shareholder, and then through a major acquisition. Other key accomplishments include designing and leading leadership and team development programs in both Europe and Latin America. Ron received his MBA from Harvard University.

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David Gleiser, Psychologist, supports organizations in the development of their capacity to learn and change as well as to manage conflict, so that their people grow and business challenges are solved. Recently left Bayer where he held tenure as Director of HR for the Andean Region. Has been trainer in negotiation and conflict management for several organizations and is the director of Spanish Language curriculum in negotiation for DRRC at the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University. Teaches Negotiation for the Graduate Management Programs at CESA (Bogotá) and at ESPOL (Guayaquil). Taught Organizational Behavior and Negotiation at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), and developed the core course in Negotiations for the Top Management program at the School of Business in Universidad de los Andes. His interest and skill in cross-cultural communication led him to serve for the advisory committee for the Development of the America´s Simulation Program for the ICONS (International Communication and Negotiation Simulations) at the School of Government and Political Science of the University of Maryland in College Park. Participated in SoL’s (Society of Organizational Learning) Core Course and later was the steward for the SoL Fractal in Colombia. Obtained advanced coaching certification with Newfield Network (Chile) and has been trained in coaching for innovation (SIT, Israel). Became certified as Ontological Coach with Newfield Consulting (with the sponsorship of ITESM) and has served as Certifying Coach for that organization in the Andean region. Became certified as Learning Coach with LIM Ltd. and has been involved in coaching projects for LIM as a Learning Coach (Merck and Zamorano). Has acted as visiting professor in Negotiations for Universidad ICESI (both in Cali and Medellín, Colombia), Universidad San Buenaventura (Cali, Colombia), Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and recently also at CESA (Bogotá, Colombia). This interest and skill in Negotiations is combined with an equivalent involvement in Change Management and in Developing Learning Programs in Organizations.

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Ricardo Escobar, Country Manager, Mexico Centro / Mexico City, has worked extensively throughout Latin America as an organizational consultant and developer of human resources. Born in Colombia, his consulting work has taken him to Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Venezuela. A partial client listing includes Coca-Cola, Schering Plough, KPMG, Skytel, Chrysler, and Hewlett Packard, . His line management experiences include positions of Sales manager and General Manager. Ricardo's specialization in process reengineering, accelerated learning, and creativity applied to problem solving have made him a sought after keynote speaker at conferences for the last 10 years. He is co-author of the book 'Creatividad en el Servicio', published by McGraw Hill 1996, and graduated in Humanities at AMHA Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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EUROPEAN ALLIES

LIM is intent on building a network that will support our services to clients with global needs. In addition to the LIM franchises in Latin America, we have allies in Europe, and suggest you visit their websites to learn about the services they offer in their regions.

MiL Institute in Sweden, founded in 1977 by 30 corporations and 30 academicians, consultants and practitioners in a co-development process led by Lennart Rohlin, its current President. Today MiL has well over 100 member corporations, among them ABB, Adtranz, AkzoNobel, Avesta Sheffield, Ericsson, IKEA International, ITT Flygt, Pharmacia&Upjohn, SEB, Skandia, SKF, Telia, Tetra Pak International, Volvo and Volvo Cars, and about the same number of European professional associates.

The Institute's basic values, concepts and perspectives on 'Strategic Leadership in the Learning Society' are explained in the book of the same title, which is also available in Japanese. MiL Institute has contributed significantly to the birth and robust growth of LIM, and has generously shared its learning and broad experience in ARL technology with us ever since our founding in 1987. We have worked alongside MiL learning coaches in executive development programs, and have participated in the annual MiL Day meetings held in Sweden each summer. www.milinstitute.se