Member - Alfonso Montuori, Ph.D. |
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California Institute of Integral Studies |
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Alfonso Montuori is professor and program director of the Transformative Leadership M.A. program, and principal of Evolutionary Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in executive development, creativity, and innovation. Born of an Italian father and Dutch mother, Alfonso Montuori grew up trilingual, and spoke five languages by age 12. He was born in Holland, and grew up in Lebanon, Greece, and England before coming to the United States in 1983. In London Alfonso worked as an interpreter for Scotland Yard, and then as a professional musician (saxophone and flute), making numerous recordings with his own band and as a session-man, and gigging extensively throughout England for several years. Today, Alfonso continues his passion for music in his collaboration with his wife, the jazz singer Kitty Margolis, as producer of her award-winning recordings. Alfonso has taught at the College of Notre Dame, the Saybrook Institute, and the South-Central University of Technology in Changsha, Hunan Province, in the People's Republic of China, where he developed and taught the first course in management and organization theory. In 2003-2004 he was Wiepking Distinguished Professor in the Fine Arts department at Miami University. His books include Evolutionary Competence (Gieben, 1989); From Power to Partnership (co-authored with Isabella Conti, Harper San Francisco, 1993); Creators on Creating (co-edited with Barron & Barron, Putnam, 1997); and Social Creativity, vols. 1-2 (co-edited with Ronald E. Purser, Hampton Press, 1999). Alfonso is presently working with Ron Purser on a graduate textbook on creativity and innovation in organizations due to be published by Southwestern/Thomson in 2005. He has written articles in publications such as Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Management Education, Pluriverso, and Journal of Humanistic Psychology. His translations include Constraints and Possibilities (Gordon & Breach, 1996) by Mauro Ceruti; Solidarity or Barbarism: A Europe of Diversity against Ethnic Cleansing (Peter Lang, 1997); and The Narrative Universe (Hampton Press, 2002), both by Gianluca Bocchi and Mauro Ceruti. Alfonso has consulted on executive and management development and creativity and innovation with numerous international corporations, including Procter & Gamble, Network Appliance, Training Vision (Singapore), Pacific Bell, Stentor Group (Canada), Kaiser Permanente, Interstate Insurance, Omnitel-Olivetti (Italy), ENEL (Italy), U.S. Department of Labor, University of Missouri Kansas City, Nestle Beverage, Pilkington Barnes Hinde, 3Com, Progressive Insurance, and others. Alfonso started, and is General Editor of, Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences at Hampton Press, which has published important works by Gregory Bateson, Gianluca Bocchi & Mauro Ceruti, Edgar Morin, Ervin Laszlo, Humberto Maturana, Ernst Von Glasersfeld, and other leading thinkers; he is Associate Editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution; and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Transformative Education; Tamara: The Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Theory; Pluriverso (Italy); Narrare il Gruppo, and Elites (Italy). Alfonso is also a member of the General Evolution Research Group. Several on-line articles by Alfonso are available from his website See also the website of his wife, jazz singer Kitty Margolis |
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