Developing Third-Generation Learning Organizations: A Heuristic Discovery Process

About Kazimierz GozdzRuth-Ellen L. Miller

After earning degrees in Anthropology Environmental Studies and Cybernetic Systems Ruth-Ellen L Miller worked as a futurist with Willis Harman at SRI International and Harold Linstone at the Futures Research Institute before earning a PhD in Systems Science from Portland State University. Her research focus is cultural cybernetics with an emphasis on the role of individual and collective consciousness in cultural dynamics. Currently Director of the Gaia Living Systems Institute on the Oregon coast Dr Miller has written numerous books on the history of consciousness research is the host of the radio show Noetic Moments on KXCR-FM and teaches independent workshops on applied metaphysics and cultural dynamics.Kazimierz Gozdz earned the B.S. in Chemistry and Business Administration then managed an industrial food manufacturing plant. His experience there led him to study community building with M. Scott Peck new-paradigm business practices with Michael Ray at Stanford University learning organization processes with Peter Senge at the MIT Organizational Learning Center and transpersonal psychology with Robert Frager earning a Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto CA. Based on that work Dr. Gozdz founded the Helix Group LLC which facilitates large scale organizational development and community building in private and public corporations military organizations and family businesses.