Melanie Hawks is the Learning and Development Manager at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. She has 20 years of experience as a trainer and facilitator. She leads workshops for higher education professionals throughout North America. Melanie has a master's in professional communication from Westminster College. She has authored the ACRL Active Guides on "Life/Work Balance" and "Influencing without Authority."
Paul D. Meyer is President and Co-CEO with Glenn Tecker of Tecker International, LLC, and is Principal Consultant with Thunderbolt Thinking, Inc. providing strategy development and change management consulting, strategic thinking, future visioning, issues resolution facilitation, organizational governance reengineering, innovation training, operational analysis, board/volunteer leadership development, and research for corporations and not-for-profit organizations.
Paul has worked with over 200 associations, academic institutions, and corporations’ worldwide as well as state, province, and local component organizations and community-based institutions representing a variety of industries, professions and causes. He has worked with groups in a number of settings such as hospitality, education, accounting, state governments, scientific research, library sciences, public institutions, entertainment, and many more. His primary areas of expertise include strategic planning and visioning facilitation and implementation, knowledge-based decision making, conflict facilitation and mediation, brand positioning, operational analysis, structural reengineering, market and marketing research, governance restructuring, and product/program assessments. He is a proven researcher, trainer, and group process facilitator focused on producing results through collaboration, group dialogue, decision-making processes, and research assessment. Paul’s skills and experience enables him to assist groups at reaching consensus in developing new opportunities, creating innovative solutions, solving problems, and achieving identified organizational goals.
Paul has an MBA from Marymount University and has earned his Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He is an active member of ASAE serving on committees, contributing to publications, and speaking at conferences. Paul has been a faculty member of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Organizational Management and currently a content leader for ASAE’s CEO Symposiums. Paul serves on the National Healthcare Quality Advisory Board.
Paul has published articles, led workshops, and is co-author of the best-selling book on organizational strategy and governance, The Will to Govern Well: Knowledge, Trust, and Nimbleness.