Judith G. Noel, M.Ed. is a founding and current member of the Board of Directors of Cross-Cultural Communications Inc, where she is a frequent staff trainer at the Effective Influence Conference. She has expertise in organization culture change, leadership development, diversity, work redesign efforts, quality improvement processes and building high performance cross-functional teams. Ms. Noel coaches senior executives in Fortune 100 companies in numerous industries, qualifies practitioners in the MBTI through CAPT, is a frequent guest trainer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business' Interpersonal Dynamics course,and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science. For 25 years she has specialized in organizational change and executive development, currently leads an international group of women in a five-year collaborative research project on women's leadership, is the founder of the LUNA Institute for Women's Leadership and Learning, and has held teaching positions at the Whithemore School of Business and Economics, the Universities of New Hampshire, Minnesota, Sonoma State and Georgetown.

 

Jay M. Seiff-Haron, Psy.D. is the Executive Director of Cross-Cultural Communications Inc, where he is a frequent staff trainer at the Effective Influence Conference. Dr. Seiff-Haron holds Advanced standing in the Stanford's Graduate School of Business Facilitator Network, and also has a coaching and psychotherapy practice in San Francisco seeing couples, adults and children. An adjunct professor at Argosy University, he specializes in issues of biculturality and cross-cultural communication, as well as in the areas of couples therapy, parenting and the remediation of trauma in children under 8 years of age. Dr. Seiff-Haron holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale University.

 

 

Richard Molano is Consultant, Contextual Program Designs and  Co-Chair of Programs for WCAN.  Mr.Molano is a talent management professional and skilled facilitator who has worked extensively with entry- and middle-level managers as well as with individual contributors.  He is both bi-lingual and bi-cultural. His fluency in Spanish allows him to represent ideas and build strategies in more than one culture. Prior to consulting with Contextual Program Designs, Mr. Molano developed talent for the YMCA of the USA, Novations, Inc and worked as a Technical Recruiter, Branch Manager, and Trainer for numerous Silicon Valley firms in the IT sector. Mr. Molano has worked with many international clients. He has delivered programs in Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Colombia, his birthplace. He is an active volunteer for the YMCA at the international, national and local levels. He has also served on a wide variety of commissions, search committees, conference planning committees, task forces, and capital campaigns.

 

Being effective nowadays means knowing not only what works, but also with whom and when. Effective Influence is a proven, results-oriented residential conference about learning how to meet our own goals more effectively with people who are different from ourselves. Learning about cross-cultural communication is self-directed and facilitated by expert trainers in small workgroups, on the "value-added" rather than "remedial" side. Attendees learn by doing, evaluating successes and failures while accelerating each other's learning via live interaction, honest feedback, coaching and practice. 50% or more of each workgroup consists of people of color in the professions.