From its inception, The Grove has worked closely with associate consultants and affiliated organizations. This way of working gave rise to the "Grove" name as a metaphorical description of the type of organization possible when committed people from separate organizations choose to collaborate closely. Some of our most active associates are:

Senior Associates
Bill Bancroft, Dallas, TX
Tom Benthin, Sonoma, CA
Ed Claassen, Ashland, OR
Deirdre Crowley, Washington, DC
Konrad Knell, Larkspur, CA
Virginia Ludvik, Albuquerque, NM
Suzanne Otter, Santa Fe, NM
Kayla Kirsch, Oakland, CA

Associates
Susannah Baldwin, Tiburon, CA
Sunni Brown, Austin, TX
Suzie Convery, Los Angeles, CA
Kathy Evans, San Francisco, CA
Jennifer Hammond-Landau, San Francisco, CA
Paula Hansen, Mill Valley, CA
Kim Love, Clinton, MD
Gabriela Melano, Petaluma, CA
Eliska Meyers, San Francisco, CA
Karen Perkins, Oakland, CA
Leslie Salmon-Zhu, San Leandro, CA
Karen Stratvert, Napa, CA
Steven Wright, Seattle, WA
Sue Nennemann, Phoenix, AZ
Sheryl Nigro, Santa Cruz CA
Emily Shepard, San Francisco, CA
Janine Underhill, Denver, CO
Anthony Weeks, San Francisco, CA
Scott Wheeler, Westchester, PA


Consulting Colleagues
Bob Horn, San Francisco, CA
Srinivas Sukumar, CoDharma Solutions Consulting, Poway, CA
Meryem le Saget, Meryem le Saget Conseil, Paris, France
Rob Eskridge, Growth Management Center Inc., Truckee, CA
Kordell Norton, eScholars, Twinsburg, OH
Peter Gaarn, Peter Gaarn & Associates, Soquel, CA
Cheryl Fields Tyler, Fields Tyler Consulting, Castro Valley, CA
Mark Higbie, The Greenfield Path, San Francisco, CA
Jocelyn Kung, Jocelyn Kung Group, Menlo Park, CA

The Grove has especially close relationships with a number of affiliate organizations. Some of these relationships, and resulting work, are described below.

AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

AH HA!
AH HA!, a consulting firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has woven graphic facilitation processes into a unique framework called LearningConnect, a rich and interactive methodology for conducting qualitative research. LearningConnect sessions consistently provide clients with much more useful information than is traditionally extracted from focus groups. AH HA! also facilitates processes for idea generation and for strategic planning. It uses The Grove’s Strategic Visioning™ Process as the framework for strategic planning.

Business for Social Responsibility
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is a global organization that provides information, tools, training and advisory services to make corporate social responsibility an integral part of business operations and strategies. A not-for-profit organization, BSR promotes cross-sector collaboration and partners with The Grove and CoVision to offer the Multistakeholder Dialogue Process.

CoVision
CoVision provides interactive group process tools and expertise that help facilitators and executives produce highly productive meetings and conferences. Using a unique groupware technology called Council, CoVision can connect large numbers of meeting participants together in highly interactive and collaborative group processes.

Drexler & Associates
Allan Drexler and David Sibbet collaborated for 10 years on the development of the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance™ System (TPS). Allan holds trainings on the TPS and collaborates with The Grove on the creation of related materials.

Institute for the Future
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent nonprofit research group that works with organizations of all kinds to help them make better, more informed decisions about the future. The Outlook Project, co-created by The Grove and IFTF, provided a strategic window into emerging information and communication technologies, identifying important developments as they emerge.

Meeting Magic
Meeting Magic, Ltd. based near London, UK, specializes in the design and facilitation of highly productive meetings, workshops and conferences using graphics to engage, spark creativity and provide permanent records.

Neuland
Neuland is recognized as a market leader among suppliers of training and meeting products. Founded in Germany in 1968, it is constantly searching for new ways to enhance the learning process. Neuland-Germany is The Grove's European distributor for the Graphic Guides® product line.

Strandgaard Consulting
Strandgaard Consulting, based in Denmark, has translated a number of The Grove's publications into Danish and distributed them throughout Northern Europe. Since 1996 Strandgaard Consulting has undertaken strategy implementation and organizational development in major organizations making a targeted effort to improve their performance to match the rapid changes in the world.

Strategy Arts Consulting
Strategy Arts Consulting is a consulting firm based in the Philadelphia area that leverages the extraordinary power of team collaboration in strategy development and implementation programs. Its unique consulting approach integrates strategic analysis with team-based collaboration to engage leadership teams in addressing their most difficult strategic challenges.