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"Your high-level understanding of business problems brings insight and simplification to often complex tasks. You bring often overlooked common sense to business problems. You also make clients feel good, which is very important. ” Hector Valenzuela, CLU
State Farm agent-intern

"You helped me re-frame the important role of customer service contact. The reduced ramp-up time for training is a huge success."
Marcy Jaffe, MBA, MPA
Thinking of You
http://vitamins-today.com


Concept Map

"You have unleashed some creativity in me. The maps we created will be powerful educational tools for my patients. "James K. Rotchford, MD
Olympic Pain & Addiction Services
(OPAS)

“I'm feeling much more clear about the whole project and really enjoyed talking about it as a group the way we did.” Joyce Wilkerson, designer
Joyce Wilkerson Textiles

"Mapping, and your incredibly astute questions, brought direction and clarity to vague feelings. The map is on my desk every day - I find it more useful than a general mission statement for the 'nuts and bolts' of getting to our company's definition of success. ( I had no idea how important transparancy in interactions was to me until we had to place it in relation to other values.)"Terry Pattison, Founder/President
Colorwaves
"Working with you allowed me to sort and prioritize all the information in my brain very quickly. And your interview process called forth pieces of wisdom I didn't know were there."Sonja Carson, President
Berkana International, Inc.

"It was a great experience for our Board. You're onto something very powerful ."Kris Mayer, EdD
KL Mayer Group

Facilitating productivity & innovation
by harvesting the expert knowledge
of individuals and teams.

Executives, small business owners & government leaders seek our assistance when they want to:

Retain knowledge and organizational capacity as long-time and technically expert employees retire

• Increase the effectiveness of public policy by clarifying inter-dependencies

Clarify new business opportunities by identifying intersection of key industry trends

• Insure the effectiveness and profitability of business partnerships & joint ventures by clarifying the essential business requirements needed for success

Build capacity in multi-stakeholder collaborations by helping everyone's work contribute to the strategic goals (see bottom of page)

Increase employee effectiveness

* Reduce the ramp-up-time for new employees


"The Things That Make Us Smart"

Drawing on my ten-year management career at Apple Computer, Inc. and my knowledge of learning and cognitive tools, I have assembled a powerful and effective suite of tools and processes - what human interface guru Don Norman calls, "things that make us smart."

If you'd like to explore how these tools can help your people and organization be more effective with less stress -

give me a call, you'll have my undivided attention as we discuss your goals and needs.

Barbara Bowen, PhD, Managing Director
barbara@sound-knowledge.com   360.774.6192


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