About Andres Marquez-Lara
Andres Marquez-Lara is the Founder and CEO of UFacilitate, a global facilitation company that makes cross-cultural collaboration work! They help high-performing teams deal with the “messy human stuff”—egos, cultural differences, miscommunication, conflict—that creates silos that put their mission at risk. They break down barriers to collaboration across people, departments, and organizations. They've worked with groups like the World Food Program, The Nature Conservancy, Easterseals, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and many others.
He teaches leadership development in various executive programs at Georgetown University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership (CEPL) at George Washington University. He is also an Advisor at the Emergence Project for Purposeful Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. He has been recognized by Ashoka and the American Academy of Certified Public Managers. He earned a BA in psychology from Duke University, and a graduate degree in clinical community psychology from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He lives in the triangle area in North Carolina with his wife and two young children.
Show Notes & Links
* Facilitating Leadership by Andres Marquez-Lara: https://www.ufacilitate.com/book/
* The Poem Ithaka:
* “The Messy Human Stuff” by Andres Marquez-Lara:
* Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
* Dee Hock
* We are not thinking creatures that feel, we are feeling creatures that think
* Zone of Proximal Development
* Playback Theater North America
Synergy in Action:
* Bestiary by Joanna Macy
* Dan Pink
* Liberating Structures 9 Why’s
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