About Us
Managing Principal
Collaborating Partners
Meet Cheri Torres
Cheri is an educational and organizational design consultant and facilitator specializing in collaborative learning as a way of organizing. Her own passion for learning and understanding the co-creation of excellence motivates her work with organizations who are striving to maximize their potential for learning, intentional organizing, strategic planning, and innovation.
She has trained hundreds to facilitate the development of essential workplace competencies that generate leadership at every level and excellence.
To meet the demand for rapid innovation in a knowledge-based economy, Cheri combines the collaborative action research approaches of Appreciative Inquiry and Experiential Learning in her work with organizations. With her support, organizations develop their capacity to continuously recreate themselves through strength-based learning and collaborative inquiry.
A sampling of her projects include work with: Fed Ex, NASA, the EPA-ORD, MaTech Services, Booz Allen Hamilton, Nielsen Media, Inc., Satyam Computer Services, Novant Health Care, the U.S. Forest Service, and Huntsman Cancer Institute.
In a global economy, work relationships are often virtual; Cheri is developing her own capacity to support the learning organization through collaboration and reflective practice in an online environment. This is the focus of her dissertation research, which she will complete in 2008 for her doctorate in Collaborative Learning. She currently holds a Masters in Business Administration, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology, Appreciative Inquiry certification from Case Western Reserve University, and level two certification in Spiral Dynamics.
An additional passion for Cheri is writing. She has authored or co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and books including Dynamic Relationships: Unleashing the Power of Appreciative Inquiry in Daily Living, The Appreciative Facilitator, From Conflict to Collaboration, and Inspire Cooperation: Teaching Young People to Manage Conflict. She co-designed and patented Mobile Team Challenge, an award winning, innovative portable low ropes course, and she is a member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), the Positive Change Corps (PCC), the Association for Experiential Education (AEE), and the Spiral Dynamics Group.
She lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband Michael, a plant geneticist at Warren Wilson College, and their youngest daughter, Carmen.