We are a community of seasoned practitioners united in our desire to stay fully present to the future in need of us.

We keep discovering better collaboration and collective intelligence practices, and share what we are learning with our friends and client systems.

We are a transformation agency, a conscious social enterprise on the edge of chaos and order.

We are, and committed to stay, on the edge of continuous discovery and innovation.

We use a combination of electronic and social technologies to deliver on that promise, in three tracks.

George Pór

Cheryl Cooper

Nora Ganescu

Julian Still

Ria Baeck

Simone Poutnik

Carolyn Dare

George Pór ^up

George is a strategic learning partner and adviser to leaders in international business, government and NGOs in matters of innovation, change management, collective intelligence, and knowledge ecology. He is assisting them to cultivate an "appreciation culture" in their organisations, a web of supportive relationships that reflect and promote organic patterns of wholeness, balance, and beauty. An executive mentor, he facilitates the transition of organisations to higher stages of collective intelligence and performance. George is the Founder and a Senior Consultant of CommunityIntelligence Ltd. Since the early 80's, George has been pioneering the development of new engines of value-creation with knowledge networks and communities of practice, and architecting virtual communities that engage the power of self-organising processes. He combines European values with American "can do" dynamism and ancient wisdom practices.

He served as Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD, Research Fellow in the Complexity Research Group at London School of Economics, and currently, he is PrimaVera Research Fellow in Collective Intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is the author of "Liberating the Innovation Value of Communities of Practice" in the textbook on "Knowledge Economics: Emerging Principles, Practices and Policies," several other book chapters and over 100 articles translated into French, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew.

George's signature projects include: the launch of the first online course on communities of practice, co-taught with Etienne Wenger in 1998; the web-based Knowledge Ecology Fair where 400 knowledge managers from around the world participated in virtual workshops and online café conversation. His current and past clients include: Belgian government, British Petroleum, Dutch government, EDS, Ericsson, European Commission, European Foundation for Management Development, European Investment Bank, Ford Motor Co., Hewlett Packard, INSEAD, Intel, Siemens, Solvay, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Re, and Unilever.

George lives in Brussels and speaks English, French, Hungarian and Russian.

contact Cheryl

Cheryl Cooper ^up

Cheryl is originally from the Pennine region in the North of England, which gave her a love of walking in National Parks, literature and rain.

Nora Ganescu ^up

is a consultant and trainer in human resources and organisational development. Nora has worked in the last 10 years with numerous international NGOs, governments and businesses. She has developed and delivered training programs in the fields of intercultural communication, leadership, conflict management, team working skills and management skills, induction training for new staff in large organisations, and training for trainers.

Nora is a trained "communities of practice" developer and facilitator, and working with CommunityIntelligence to help European institutions becoming better learning organisations.

Nora is also specialised in evaluation, designing evaluation and monitoring programs, developing indicators, preparing and conducting qualitative and quantitative research, evaluating data and reporting.

Her clients include: European Commission, the Committee of the Regions, the Council of Europe, the National Academy of Public Administration, the Dutch National Agency, International Union of Socialist Youth, Federation of Young European Greens, International Catholic Students, Federation of European Roma Youth Platforms, International Young Nature Friends, International Falcon Movement.

Nora has a PhD in Communication Science from the University Ludwig Maximillian in Munich, Germany, and a Sociology Degree from the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

She has lived and worked in Romania, Germany, United States and Belgium. Currently, she lives in Brussels. She speaks English, German, Romanian and Hungarian.

He is a leadership coach with particular interest in self-development, trauma, inner leadership and meditation, at the personal level. At the next level, relationships are the key understanding to how teams and organisations function. They are often complex, with far more connections and variables than one head can deal with; the new tools of complexity enable decisions and progress that seemed impossible. These tools include story, metaphor, resonance, emergence, conversation mapping, design for complexity, collective intelligence, communities of practice, critical thinking, constellations, world café, open space and more.

For large systems, he teaches strategic thinking, holistic evaluation and the law of unintended consequences. This challenges much of our received linear thinking, but meets with success with people who realise that not everything around us is linear, and that complex human systems have inherently multiple perspectives.

Much of this work is incorporated in a course that he has developed over the past few years with Ria baeck, another CommunityIntelligence consultant, called “Leadership Inside Out.”

Ria Baeck ^up

is a transformational change professional who comes to group facilitation and the collective intelligence field with a rich background of experiences and interests. She is holding a master degree in Clinical Psychogy (KU Leuven). Her earlier work was in psychotherapy, integrating the body in the process of healing. She is a coach and mentor, who combines deep compassion, bodily awareness and a lust for life, to facilitate transformation in individuals and groups.

For the last couple of years, she has been working in the field of Systemic and Organization Constellations that reveal the hidden dynamics in human systems and bringing blocked parts of it into flow again.

Constellation work draws on the collective intelligence and wisdom of a system and because it uses the mental, the emotional and the intuitive knowing, it often brings totally new fresh solutions in a short time. It can be useful for rapid diagnosis, for issue-resolution or the testing of possible strategies. Ria is also trained in the Art of Hosting and a member of the Art of Hosting Fellowship.

Ria is passionate about the development of leadership, consciousness, and how they relate to communities – in work and daily life. Until recently, she worked primarily in the area of personal development, coaching and the social profit sector; currently, she is expending the sectors served to include business and government. She is unleashing individual and organisational potential by holding the question "What else is possible, beyond the edge of what is known," with gentle fierceness.

Ria lives in Belgium, near Brussels, where she facilitates "World Cafés," and travel globally to do the work that she is called to.

Simone Poutnik ^up

is a facilitator of the learning of organisations, by supporting them in cultivating their communities of practice. She is a Junior Partner in CommunityIntelligence.

Simone is passionate about finding holistic solutions for sustainable development through social entrepreneurship, partnerships, multi-stakeholder engagement, learning and networking. She has been a delegate at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, designed a partnership project for rural development in India in 2003 and is currently setting up “The Hub” in Brussels, an incubator of initiatives for social and environmental innovation.

Simone is also a practitioner of the art of hosting, has 5 years of experience in designing and facilitating interactive workshops and group processes in Belgium, Germany, Italy and India and she can do that in English, German and Italian.

With 6 years of experience in project and event design and management, her biggest successes were: the International Congress of AIESEC in 2004 -- 10 days with over 600 participants from all over the world, where she was part of the organising team, and the European Academy of Business in Society’s Annual colloquium in 2005 and 2006, where she designed and managed the 1st and 2nd European Education & Training Exchange on Corporate Responsibility.

She previously worked as project coordinator at the European Academy of Business in Society, which is the leading European business-academic network on research, education and training on corporate responsibility, as leader of the global Sustainability Drive Team, local committee president of AIESEC, one of the largest international student organisations.

Carolyn Dare ^up

is a virtual community designer and online facilitator who for the past 8 years has been working on projects with CommunityIntelligence, helping companies to improve their performance by enhancing their collective intelligence through communities of practice. She works mainly on the design/architecture of virtual community platforms and manages online projects and group discussions. Carolyn also designs interactive websites/content management systems for small and medium sized companies.

She has been running change management workshops for organisations across Europe, such as the European Investment Bank, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgacom, Stora Enso, MCE, Societe Generale, Pedigree Petfoods, Mach. She manages team building and team dynamics programmes for companies. For the past 18 months she has also been organizing leadership and management programmes for academic leaders across Europe with the European University Association and more recently, with European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities.

Prior to working with CommunityIntelligence, she was a Project Manager in the Corporate Services of the European Foundation for Management Development. Carolyn supports organisations in their "learning and development" events and has worked on various projects with Xing, Danish Leadership Institute, Laboratório da Formação, MRG, WHU, INSEAD, Imagics, and Boas. For 10 years, she organized and ran international conferences, seminars and workshops for Management Centre Europe. Carolyn has a wide network and relationship with many OD professionals and experts in Europe.

She has been living in Brussels for over 20 years and has 3 children.