Janet Marie Bennett, PhD, founded the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) and now directs the University of the Pacific individualized Master of Arts in intercultural relations. She specializes in developing theory and training methods in intercultural communication. Dr. Bennett created the liberal arts program at Marylhurst University and facilitates professional development for university faculty and administrators, international student advisers, health care providers, corporate managers, caseworkers, and others in the private and public sectors. She was given the Senior Interculturalist Award from the International Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research, as well as the Golden Penguin Award from the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.

Karen Bjorklund, MS, is the principal of Bjorklund Business Relations and provides consulting and training on management, team building, communication, planning strategies, and marketing. For more than 12 years, she has been a speaker at national and local conferences and has led seminars and instructed classes. Her awards and honors include the Outstanding Manager Award from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and the Award of Excellence from the Oregon Columbia/International Association of Business Communicators.

Glen Fahs, PhD, is adult education director of training and organization development for the Cascade Employers Association, a human resource nonprofit agency serving more than 500 organizations. He has directed several continuing education departments and served as a management consultant in all sectors for large and small organizations, such as Nabisco, Time Warner, Entek International, Multnomah Athletic Club, cities, counties, and Hollywood Entertainment. For more than six years, Dr. Fahs was responsible for the state of Oregon's statewide management training. He has performed board and other volunteer leadership roles for United Way, the Oregon Ethics Commons, and the American Society for Training and Development.

Tracey Parsons, MA, has been in the Training and Development/OD field for over 14 years. She has held T & D positions in retail, health care, manufacturing, hospitality, and higher education. Her areas of expertise are in leadership coaching, emotional intelligence development, program design and performance improvement. She holds a graduate degree in Training and Learning Technologies from the University of New Mexico and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational leadership. Tracey is currently the director of talent acquisition and development at Oregon Health and Science University.

Dorothy Sermol, PhD, is director of Intercultural Communication Solutions, through which she designs and conducts training programs in diversity, gender issues, acculturation, and conflict management for higher education, health care, social services, and private industry. As an educator, Dr. Sermol headed a government-sponsored interracial program in San Francisco schools, taught intercultural communication at Portland State University and Lesley College graduate school in Massachusetts, and currently teaches at Linfield College in Oregon. She is a native of Scotland, has lived in and taught in Germany, Italy, and Spain, and has worked in Japan.

Katherine Stevens, MEd, is an instructional designer at Creative Media Development, where she is responsible for designing classroom, multimedia, and web-based training. Ms. Stevens has 10 years of experience as an instructional designer and has many years of experience in software development. She is past president of the Cascadia Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development.

Aaron Munter, MS, currently serves as director of school finance, data, and analysis for the Oregon Department of Education. In his tenure at the Education Department, he managed a $6 million project to re-engineer data collection and reporting for statewide policymaking, a redesign of the state's school and district report card effort, and is currently designing a project to revamp the state's $5.2 billion biennial State School Fund allocation process. Past roles have included executive director and founder of an Internet nonprofit developing web-based curriculum and instruction, technology coordinator for Salem-Keizer Public Schools, and technology education coordinator for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

Jennifer Webster, PhD, is the principal of Business Strategies, Inc., and provides consulting in the areas of strategic planning, facilitation, team and leadership development, process analysis, and curriculum development. She has provided services in both the private and public sector. Her clients have ranged from Sprint Corporation, PacifiCorp, IBM, Goodwill, Vocational Rehabilitation Division, Oregon State Legislature, Department of Revenue, and the Oregon Episcopal School. Dr. Webster also teaches at Oregon State University in their graduate school of education and at Willamette University in the Atkinson school of management. She moved to Oregon six years ago from Kansas City, where she was employed by Sprint Corporation as an educational consultant. She was formerly the vice president of finance for the American Society of Training and Development.

Dan Vetter, MS, is president of Vetter Solutions, an independent consulting firm specializing in instructional design, training delivery, and process improvement. Mr. Vetter invested 12 years working in training and development and continuous improvement at a Fortune 500 company in Omaha, Nebraska, prior to moving to Portland. He has taught in the human performance improvement programs at the University of Nebraska and Drake University as well as serving as president for the Cascadia Chapter of ASTD.

Mohammed Abu Zayed, PhD has extensive experience in the field of training and development that derives from his direct involvement in training and consulting. He has been teaching a broad range of subjects at PSU since 1988, such as managing diversity in the workplace, quality improvement, team building, and training practices. In addition, he worked at OHSU as a management development specialist. Furthermore, he brings significant insights about public sector organizations. Currently, Dr. Abu Zayed is a training coordinator for computer training in Multnomah County.