"How can we create the kinds of relationships and conversations with others that allow all participants to access their creativities and develop possibilities where none seemed to exist before"

Harlene Anderson is recognized internationally as being at the leading edge of postmodern collaborative practices as a thinker, consultant, coach, and educator. She takes her tools worldwide--her insights, her curiosity, her engaging conversational style, her leadership skills and her keen interest--to help others create new and often surprising possibilities and astonishing results for their clients, students, organizations and themselves. She embodies her own belief in learning as a lifelong process--inviting, encouraging and challenging people to be inquisitive, creative, authentic and open to the ever-present possibilities for newness in others--and in themselves.

Harlene is dedicated to helping people

• be more successful in their personal and professional lives
• discover and enhance their creativities, strengths, and resources
• make decisions, articulate goals, develop strategies, and take action
• eliminate burnout
• achieve a balanced quality in their personal and professional roles, and
• have fulfilling lives.

Collaborative Relationships - Transforming Conversations

Harlene has earned an international reputation for her collaborative model to understanding and working with human systems. Her model has been successfully implemented with individuals and a variety of organizations in the private and public sectors presenting a wide range of challenges. (See Books and Articles; Selected Writings: Conversations, Language and Possibilities; A Postmodern Collaborative Approach to Therapy; Collaborative Therapy: Conversations and Relationships that Make a Difference; Journeys of a Postmodern Collaborative Therapist: Part I; Journeys of a Postmodern Collaborative Therapist: Part II.)

Collaborative partnerships have proven quite effective in resolving complex concerns such as those experienced by business leaders--managers, teams and executives--building bridges between business strategies and people, creating pathways to success. Her approach, first developed for families, has proven particularly successful in resolving business challenges and dilemmas for those who have had little success with other consultation approaches. (See Collaborative Inquiry: A Postmodern Approach to Organizational Consultation and Appreciative Organizations.)

Services: Training, Workshops, Consultation, Coaching, and Keynotes

Harlene offers customized trainings, workshops, consultations, and coaching around the world. She is a frequent keynote speaker on a variety of topics, and is known for her engaging, inspringm and thought-provoking style.

Proven Success

Her success, expertise and leadership are exemplified in her position as a founding member of Access Success International, Houston Galveston Institute, and Taos Institute and as a board member of the Family Business Institute and Texas Medical Assistance and Development. (See What Others have Said)

Books and Articles

Harlene has authored and co-authored numerous articles including her book Conversation, Language, and Possibilities--A Postmodern Approach to Therapy: It's translation to Danish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish demonstrates the usefulness of her approach across cultures.

Newly released books: Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference www.postmoderntherapy.com/CollTher/ coedited with Diane Gehart and Innovations in the Reflecting Process, coedited with Per Jensen.

She has also co-authored the book Appreciative Organizations. She is a member of the editorial review boards of several journals, has presented at numerous national and international conferences and has consulted with a variety of organizations and businesses.

Among her many awards are the prestigious 2000 Outstanding Contributions to Marriage and Family Therapy Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.