Development University

ALIKI NICOLAIDES

Adult Learning, Development & Leadership In Times of Ambiguity

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Current Faculty Position Assistant Professor of Adult Education, University of Georgia, Athens.

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Department of Lifelong Education, Administration & Policy

Program in Adult Education

850 College Stations Road, 405 River s Crossing

Athens, GA 30602

Education

2008 - 2010 Post Doctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University Law School, New York, NY

May 2008 Ed.D Columbia University, Teachers College - New York, NY

Program in Adult Learning & Leadership, Doctorate in Education

Dissertation Title:

Learning Their Way Through Ambiguity: Explorations of How Nine Developmentally Mature

Adults Make Sense of Ambiguity

May 1992 M.A. The American University- Washington, D.C

School of International Service, Masters in Conflict Resolution, Nonviolence and Peace

Education

May 1990 B.A. Purdue University- West Lafayette, IN

School of International Relations, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

Professional Experience

2008- 2010 Columbia Law School New York, NY

Center for Institutional and Social Change

Post Doctoral Research Scholar

Two-year research scholar. Responsibilities included:

o Contributing to the development and study of research approaches the center

takes to address concerns of structural inequality at the institutional and policy

levels.

o Contributing to the design and facilitation of curriculum that helps aspiring

lawyers develop capacities for reflective learning and collaborative field research

approaches to institutional transformation.

o Collaborating across disciplines to develop curriculum and research that facilitate

a shift in the conventional approaches to concerns for diversity and full

participation across institutional boundaries.

Fall 2009 Adult Learning & Leadership Program,

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Graduate Class in Strategic Learning:

Approaches to Cultivating Strategic Insight in a World of Uncertainty

Fall 2009 - Co-instruct & Co-design course curriculum

Fall 2008 - Guest Lecturer. Co-developed course curriculum

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Fall 2006/2007 - T eaching Fellow

Summer 2010 Summer Principals Academy - Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

Summer 2009 Instructor

2008 Advanced Class in Adult Learning & Development - June/July 2009 & 2008

Collaboratively developed, lead and facilitated with Professor Drago-Severson an

intensive adult learning and development class for 86 aspiring public school leaders,

Teaching Fellow - June/July 2007, 2006

Convened Leader of small student learning groups (10 people in each group)

Contributed to daily adjustments to course plan and supported lead professors

Advanced Class in Self-Awareness Training - June/July 2010, 2009 & 2008

Collaboratively led and co-developed curriculum with Dr. Craig Richardson a self-

reflection and awareness training class for 170 (2 cohorts) for aspiring public school

leaders over 6 weeks.

2 007 - 2 009 A HRC - N ew York, NY

External Leadership and Learning Consultant

Design and facilitate curriculum for ongoing organization wide adult

learning, development, and leadership program to address issues related to

diversity.

Working with organization directors, senior management and supervisors to

develop their leadership capacity through ongoing coaching and learning

program.

2003-2005 Columbia University - New York, NY

Center for International Conflict Resolution at the School of International and Public

Administration

Associate Program Director

Oversaw the development and implementation of a citizens exchange

program between faculty and students from Syria and the United States.

Developed program focus on conflict resolution and leadership education

for women, civil society leaders, youth and Ministry of Education officials.

Facilitated interpersonal dynamics related to cross-cultural and political

differences within a variety of organizational and societal contexts in the

Middle East including those in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria.

Additional Professional Experience

2001-2003 Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA

Graduate School of Business

Facilitator

Served as a process consultant of 16-week leadership development program

employing an interpersonal-dynamics approach to learning for second year

business school students.

Designed and facilitated several one and two-day conflict management

seminars for the Life Long Learning Institute.

200 1-2003 Avista Consulting Group - San Francisco, CA

Associate Consultant

Participated as member of consulting team in leadership development

program.

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Coached newly appointed managers, directors and team leaders to increase their

leadership decision making capacities.

2000-2003 Hoffman Institute San Anselmo, CA

Faculty of year-long Leadership Development Program

Co-produced with learning team a yearlong leadership development

program integrating interpersonal dynamics, transformative learning and

adult development.

Served on faculty for ten-day residential intensive personal and professional

development program employing a transformative learning approach.

1997-2000 Project Access, Singapore

Co-Founder & CLO

Established a social enterprise business model with a people, product and

planet bottom line. Delivered leadership-development programs for young

women in a diversity of contexts including colleges, universities, high

schools, governmental ministries and businesses.

Created professional development program and discussion seminars for

newly appointed women leaders in Fortune 1000 companies.

Designed 3-6 month coaching programs for newly appointed women

executive leaders in professional development and conflict resolution.

1994-1997 SuperLearning Pte. Ltd - Singapore

Director, Learning Programs

Facilitated capacity building workshops to increase the creativity,

communication and leadership skills of educators, principals and high

potential students in secondary, post secondary schools, colleges and

universities.

Custom designed training programs in experiential learning methodology

that expanded client-learning capacities.

1992-1993 Children s Creative Response to Conflict Inc New York, NY

Program Coordinator

Established strategy to extend peer mediation programs into inner city schools to reduce

small group and individual conflict among students and faculty.

Special Projects

Fall 2010 Global Learning & Leadership Initiative New York, NY

Co-Faculty with Ellie Drago-Severson & Victoria Marsick

School Leadership Institute

Winter 2010 Fielding Graduate Univeristy Santa Barbara, CA

Research Methods Intensive - HOD-7 1 9AI

Co-developed and Co-facilitated week long research methods intensive based on Developmental

Action Inquiry for advancing Doctoral Students

Spring 2009 Global Learning & Leadership Initiative - New York, NY

Co-Faculty with Victoria Marsick & Ellie Drago-Severson

Thought Leader Co-Inquiry Group

Co-designed and convened groups of thoughts leaders to explore role of facilitation and

learning in how to help adults learn to meet the demands of the 21st Century.

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Fall 2008 Developmental Action Inquiry Workshop Boston, MA

Co-Facilitator with Bill Torbert

Advanced Seminar in Action Inquiry for Adult Development and Leadership

4 day intensive on the methods and practice of developmental action inquiry

Co-designed and co-convened seminar sessions with Bill Torbert

Summer 2007 Adult Education Graduate Intensive Studies (AEGIS)

Teachers College, Columbia University

Doctoral Cohort Program

Teaching Fellow

Seminar in Adult Learning & Complexity Theory

Professor Lyle Yorks

Developed seminar content & co-facilitated a day seminar for pro-seminar.

2006 2007 Department of Veterans Affairs - Washington, DC

Researcher, Action Research Team

Action Research Team on Work Place Aggression.

H ouston, TX - Field Location.

Spring 2006 Adult Learning & Leadership

Graduate Program

Teaching Fellow

Seminar The Learning Society

Professor Ruud Van der Veen

Developed a process to build and support students on-line learning community

Winter 2006 Workshop on Transformative Leadership - Cornwall, NY

Workshop Co-Coordinator & Small Group Consultant

Co-designed weekend transformational leadership program with Bill Torbert

and Susann Cook-Geuter incorporating a developmental profile and small

group coaching.

Served as a small-group consultant interpreting Leadership Development

Profile.

Fall 2005 Clinton Global Initiative - New York City, NY

Session Dialogue Leader

Served as a discussion leader on topics of corruption, good governance and

strategic partnering for government and non-governmental representatives

from 120 nations.

Analyzed and synthesized discussion data. Facilitated conversation for

reflection and strategic future planning in table groups.

2004-2006 Doctoral Salon - Teachers College, Columbia University

Program in Adult Learning & Leadership

Founded Doctoral students & faculty conversation salon that supported the

growth and development of a community of practice with students and

faculty.

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Professional Service

2010- Present University of Georgia Athens, GA

College of Education, Program in Adult Education, Department of Lifelong Education,

Administration, and Policy

Member, PhD Admission Committee, Program in Adult Education,

Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, College of

Education, University of Georgia, 2010 Present

Member, Ed.D Curriculum and Program development Committee, Program in

Adult Education, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and

Policy, College of Education, University of Georgia, 2010- Present

Member, Me.D Curriculum Re-design task force, Program in Adult Education,

Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, College of

Education, University of Georgia, 2010- Present

2008-2009 Participated as a 3rd reader as a member of a dissertation committee

Teachers College, Columbia University

Dissertation Title:

Towards Societal Transformation: How a Women s Social Change Organization

Facilitates Transformative Change to Create a More Just and Equitable Society

Member of the Global Learning and Leading Initiative (GLII),

2008-2009

Teachers College, Columbia University

Serving as a member of a collaborative development & facilitation team for the

Adult Learning & Leadership Facilitation Projects with Prof. Victoria

Marsick, Prof. Ellie Drago-Severson and Dr. Linda Bloomberg.

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Publications

Published:

Yorks, L. & Nicolaides, A. (2011, Teachers College Record). Generating strategic insight: Toward an integral

pedagogy for evolving mindsets for strategic learning and action in the midst of ambiguity.

Yorks, L. & Nicolaides, A. (2011, under review, Journal of Management Education) A Pedagogical Framework for

Developing Competency and Capacity for Strategic Insight through Action Inquiry.

Barker, E., Livne-Trandach, R., McCallum, D., Nicolaides, A., & Torbert, W. (August, 2010). Developmental

Action Inquiry. Chapter in S. Esbro-Haargens, et al (Eds) Integral Research. Albany NY: SUNY Academic

Press.

Nicolaides, A. & Yorks, L. (2008). An epistemology of Learning Through. E:CO Issue Vol. 10 NO. 1 2008

pp.50-61.

Yorks, L. & Nicolaides, A. (2007). The role of Conundrums of Co-Inquiry Action Research: Lessons

from the field. Systemic Practice and Action Research; 20, 105-116.

Nicolaides, A. & Yorks, L. (2007). An epistemology of learning through life. K. A. Richarson & P.

Cilliers (Eds.), Explorations in complexity thinking: Pre-Proceedings of the 3rd International

Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy, (pp#223-235). Mansfield, MA: ISCE Publishing.

Yorks, L. & Nicolaides, A. (2006). Editorial: Complexity and Emergent Communicative Learning:

An Opportunity for HRD Scholarship. Human Resource Development Review, 5, 143-147.

Nicolaides, A. & Kwee, M. (1999). Educating For Choice: A PAX Adventure. Commentary,

Educating For The Good Society. The National University of Singapore Society Volume 15, 1999.

Publications in Process:

Nicolaides, A. (2011, pending). Learning Through Ambiguity: The Wisdom of a Postconventional

Perspective. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education.

Nicolaides, A. (2011, research in progress). Inquiry as methodology and practice for institutional

transformation towards full participation in 21st century democracy.

Nicolaides, A. & McCallum, D. (2011, pending). Inquiry in Action for Leadership in Crisis:

Exploring the Connections Between Transformative Learning and Leadership.

Nicolaides, A. & McCallum, D. (2011, pending). Disciplined Vulnerability:

Cultivating Presence through Developmental Action Inquiry.

Conference Papers & Presentations

Nicolaides, A. & McCallum, D. (May 2011, International Transformative Learning

Conference in Athens, GR) Inquiry in action for leadership in crisis: Exploring the

connections between transformative learning and leadership.

Drago-Severson, E., McCallum, D., & Nicolaides A. (August 2010, Integral Theory

Conference). The Four Pillar Practices: Building the Integral Capacity of Organizations.

Nicolaides, A. (April 2010 AERA). Learning through Ambiguity: The Wisdom of more

complex ways of knowing. AERA Conference, Denver Colorado, April 2010.

Barker, E., Livne-Trandach, R., McCallum, D., Nicolaides, A., & Torbert, W. (2008). Developmental

Action Inquiry. Award-winning paper at the First International Academic Conference on Integral

Theory, JFK University, Pleasant Hill, California, August 7-10, 2008.

Ciporen, R., Hayes, S., Kucharczyk, K., McCallum, D., Nicolaides, A., Shannon,M., & Sundheim, D. The

Play of Action Inquiry: Learning Through Living. Exploring the implications of developmental

diversity for transformative learning in an action inquiry group. Seventh International Transformative

Learning Conference. Issues of Difference and Diversity. Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 23-26,

2007.

Nicolaides, A. & Yorks, L. (2007). One of six session presenters. Third International

Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy. Stellenboch, South Africa, February.

Nicolaides, A. & Yorks, L. (2006). Implications of complexity theory for co-inquiry

generative learning. The experience of an actions research project in the U.S. Department

of Veteran Affairs. Third Biennial International Seminar on the Philosophial,

Epistemological, and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory. Instituto de

Filosophia, La. Habana, Cuba, January.

Wasserman, I. & Nicolaides, A. (2005) Disorienting, Disorientation: Challenging Stories &

Transforming Awareness. A conversation between an American Jewish woman and A Palestinian

Greek woman. Sixth International Transformative Learning Conference. Appreciating the Best of

What is: Envisioning What Could Be. Michigan State University, October 2005.

Nicolaides, A. & Yorks, L. (2004). The paradox of human subjectivity: Alchemy in the

service of enhancing the social implications of complexity theory. International Workshop on

Complexity and Philosophy. Sponsored by Universidad Federal do Rio De Janeiro, Instituto

de Econimia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. November

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