Who is Collaborating

Our strength is our network of highly experienced professionals each with specialized expertise who work together, learn from one another and create a whole far more powerful than the sum of its parts.

Glen Mohr, Principal
Founder of Mohr Collaborative, LLC, Glen Mohr is an expert on organizational learning for innovation, focused on cutting-edge approaches to web-based collaboration in the financial services and healthcare industries. He leads high-profile innovation programs for Fortune 50 clients, engaging global teams of young executives in turning ideas into practical, customer-facing solutions and achieving consistently extraordinary financial returns from the resulting new products and services. He holds a Masters from Harvard with a concentration in Technology in Education and a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia

Prior to starting Mohr Collaborative, Glen was President of The Otter Group where he ran the the Global Markets Innovation Program for Merrill Lynch as well as developing numerous e-learning, communications and collaborations projects. The company was a leader in integrating collaborative and Web 2.0 technologies into learning and innovation programs for such corporate and higher education clients as Harvard University, MIT, CDM and Sutter Health.

After earning a Masters with a concentration in Technology in Education from Harvard, Glen joined the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications where he developed innovative and successful models for technology-enhanced collaborative learning and produced over 200 programs while guiding scores of cultural, scientific, and educational institutions in their first forays into distance learning. Glen also served as product and syndication manager for HighWired.com, a provider of web-based publishing tools.

Glen has published and presented about collaborative technologies and innovation, including a chapter on building community and collaboration with blogs in Collaborate for Success: Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses and Hospital Executives.

Art Hutchinson…Founder, Cartegic Group
Mr. Hutchinson is a seasoned strategist and executive, with nearly two decades of experience working with large, global corporations and technology-centric start-up firms on world-class strategy problems. He works with senior management teams, using scenarios and other strategic planning techniques to help clients forge and implement dynamic, practical strategy.

His main focus is on “virtual goods” industries (i.e. financial services, IT services, and information ‘content’) where competitive dynamics, industry definitions, business models, business practices, and interfaces with customer are all shifting rapidly in light of galloping advances in network-based technology performance.

Before founding Cartegic Group, Art spent seven years at NerveWire, (formerly Northeast Consulting Resources: ‘NCRI’), where he most recently headed the firm’s strategy practice for financial services. There he led a wide range of engagements for large corporate (Global 100) clients using the firm’s scenario planning and information technology planning methodologies, adapting proven approaches to scenarios and strategic planning, and applying them to developing business architecture and strategy. more

Barbara Kivowitz…Senior Partner, im21 and The BEK Group
Ms. Kivowitz has particular expertise in helping organizations collaborate in areas such as: innovation, organizational change, and team and leadership development. Her clients include IBM, Lotus Development, Novartis, Genzyme, General Motors, Sun Life Financial, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Keane, Lancaster General Hospital, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a recent engagement with Sun Life Financial, she worked across divisions to help them become more innovative at product and process development. She also worked with their global leadership teams to help them solve complex strategic problems that required innovative solutions.

Barbara Kivowitz is founder and senior partner of im21, a consulting group whose mission is to help organizations partner across boundaries and solve complex problems by activating the diverse organizational networks that drive innovation, efficiency, and results. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Global Work.

Sal Rasa…Senior Partner, im21
Sal Rasa has been active in communication and collaborative learning efforts within business, arts and education for over thirty years. He is dedicated to communication as the lifeblood of an organization and the understanding that the answers are always in the audience. He has consulted to companies in a variety of industries, including Merck, Schering-Plough, Schlumberger, BMW, Nissan, Philip Morris, Nabisco, Westinghouse, Omnicom, American Scandia, Citigroup, and UBS. Sal was a senior communication consultant at Watson Wyatt and served as vice president of global communication and business transformation for Maritz Performance Improvement. As lead consultant to IBM at Maritz, he co-authored baseline cultural change for IBM’s first hybrid marketing channel, developed global CRM learning methodologies and led the technology giant’s company-wide business transformation communication strategy. more

Patti Anklam…Hutchinson Associates
Patti Anklam is a consultant with expertise in networked collaboration, organizational network analysis (ONA), and knowledge management systems strategy and architecture. Her work enables organizations to adopt collaborative work practices and technologies to support knowledge-based, networked organizations. Patti is a recognized leader in the field of organizational network analysis and has conducted organizational assessments for utilities, systems research, and telecommunications companies. A frequent speaker and writer on ONA, providing general as well as in-house training, Patti’s book, Net Work, published in April 2007, provides a practice guide for working successfully with networks. more