Straits Knowledge
Straits Knowledge is a Singapore based research and consulting firm focused on learning, information and knowledge management. They are accredited practitioners of Cognitive Edge techniques, and advocates of naturalistic knowledge management approaches in support of organisation effectiveness.

Amanda Horne
Amanda Horne provides facilitation, coaching and advisory services to small, medium and large businesses in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She specialises in the practical application of the research and evidence from the latest strengths-based fields to help create positive, high-functioning people and organisations. She is a graduate of Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness (Positive Psychology) programme and a member of the International Positive Workplace Alliance.

Amanda has over 24 years of corporate experience, including 20 years with an international professional services firm. She now runs her own company in Canberra.

Nancy White:
Founder of Full Circle Associates, Nancy helps organizations connect through online and offline strategies. Nancy is an online interaction designer, facilitator and coach for distributed communities of practice, online learning, distributed teams and virtual communities. Nancy teaches, presents and writes on online facilitation ( http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitymanual.htm). She blogs at http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm. She confesses to online interaction and chocolate addiction.

Brandology:
Brandology shows you a different way to think about your brand – one that uncovers and represents the authentic brand foundation that lives within every organization. We work to bring internal reality and external perception into alignment so the result is a truth based brand which: Supports an enduring culture; Drives sustainable differentiation; and Withstands the test of time.

P3:
P3, Australia's leading marketing communications procurement consultancy, consulted on over $800 million in marketing expenditure in 2007. Benchmarking and assessing current processes and costs, P3 identifies opportunities for greater efficiencies and effectiveness in all aspects of marketing communications including advertising, media planning and buying, public relations, digital and direct marketing. Working with the majority of Australia's top 200 companies, P3 has delivered significant savings in cost and time to market through service provider review and selection, process assessment and improvement, contract negotiation, remuneration modelling, cost benchmarking and training.

www.p3.com.au or contact people@p3.com.au

SOAR:
Mary-Alice Arthur is New Zealand’s leading narrative practitioner, and at the heart of her work is the practice of recognising, working with and transforming the personal and group stories, conversations and inquiries that impact on success. Her powerful results from a Telecom merger project were written up in the 2006 book Wake Me When the Data is Over: How Organizations Use Stories to Drive Results (ed: Lori Silverman). Here clients can be found in both the private and public sectors, with an emphasis on culture development and change and potent large group initiatives. Her work is both practical and transformational, demonstrating the belief that the wisdom is in the group, our stories are the key to unleashing our knowledge and life is too short to have a boring mission or a boring meeting.

The key strands of SOAR’s work are:
• People technologies for emerging and positive change
• Innovative and transformative processes for groups of all sizes
• Powerful questions and creative sparks to galvanise focused action
• Stories for the heart, mind, soul and the journey

www.getsoaring.com or contact mary-alice@getsoaring.com