Jack Ricchiuto, M.A.

Jack's work is about teaching groups to become smarter together. When groups are smarter together, people are focused, engaged, inspired, and aligned. They get more done because they're engaging their strengths in ways that make their weaknesses irrelevant.

Jack's undergraduate degree is from John Carroll University (1974) and graduate degree from Goddard College, Vermont (1980). In his early training in his 20's, he was mentored by the pioneers in American, European, and Japanese models of personal growth and development. He continues teaching and curriculum design with undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate programs in colleges and universities including Kent State University, Vanderbilt University, and UC Berkeley.

Jack is a mentor with the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and acts as content and process expert to other national consulting firms including the Cobalt Group, the Capacity Institute, and the Rallus Group.

For 30 years, Jack's work with groups spans 24 industries and a variety of urban, rural, and virtual communities. He works with groups from 5 to 500+ including organizational teams, project teams, community groups, task forces, governing boards and committees, and leadership teams. His work is about transformation.

Jack has worked with all levels and functions of groups in aerospace, architecture, automotive, bio-tech, communications, consulting, consumer products, commercial products, community development, design/build firms, economic development, education, sustainability, finance, government, health care, industrial, information technology, internet startups, leadership development, legal, accounting, manufacturing, marketing, non-profit services, publishing and media.

Jack continues to contribute to thought leadership in leading edge areas such as strengths-based leadership and organizations, asset based community development, social network development, and innovation, much of which is published in his books and blogs. He has recently been named as one of the top 10 experts in social network sciences in the world.

Jack's work with leaders and organizations focuses on issues including strategic planning, executive and life coaching, project management coaching, leadership development, organization development, board effectiveness, innovation management, and social network development. His community engagement work that focuses on economic and community development and capacity building is inspired by world-wide practice methodologies such as Open Space Technology, A Small Group, World Cafe, and Appreciative Inquiry.

Jack has written for local and national publications including Smart Business and Projects@Work magazines and he has been quoted in Entrepreneur Magazine and Harvard Business Review . He continues to coach and mentor writers and book self-publishers.

His books include: Collaborative Creativity, Accidental Conversations, Project Zen, Appreciative Leadership, Mountain Paths, and Conscious Becoming.