Patty Hawk (USA) is Professor of Communication Studies at Nebraska Wesleyan University where dialogue has successfully been integrated into the general education curriculum to ensure ongoing dialogic engagement throughout that organization. Patty has developed a program where students, faculty, staff, and administration routinely engage across university boundaries in critical issue dialogues (such as reproductive health, gender identity, race) to move from a reactive to a proactive model of crisis communication.

Jon Steinman (Canada), co-founder of a Cohousing Community of 24 homes called Heddlestone Village. Cohousing communities are resident-managed, so the people with whom you manage the organization are also your immediate neighbours. This demands a unique attention to communication, prompting Jon to introduce Dialogue at Heddlestone in 2020 and eventually leading him to enrol in the Academy’s program A Different Way of Working. Jon was accredited as a Professional Dialogue Practitioner in 2023 and is introducing Dialogue into his consultant/educator work for consumer-owned grocery co-operatives.

Parvin Daeipour (Iran) Founder President of Tehran-based Endless Way of Dialogue institution, is a skilled clinical psychologist. She encountered dialogue with the Hertkemeyers in 2005, trained 150 dialogue facilitators using their model, and experienced dialogue as the best way to build relationships and deal with social conflict. Joining the Academy (2020), she realized how Dialogue creates positive change in organizations. Accredited in Professional Dialogue (2022), her institute now introduces the Academy’s approach into local Iranian communities, and organizations like insurance companies and school systems.