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Etienne Wenger |
Etienne Wenger is a globally recognized thought leader
in the field of communities of practice and their application to organizations.
He was featured by Training Magazine in their "A
new Breed of Visionaries" series. A pioneer of the "community
of practice" research, he is author and co-author of seminal
articles and books on the topic, including Situated Learning
(Cambridge University Press, 1991), where the term was coined, Communities
of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Cambridge University
Press, 1998), where he lays out a theory of learning based on the
concept of communities of practice, and Cultivating Communities
of Practice: a Guide to Managing Knowledge (Harvard Business
School Press, 2002), addressed to practitioners in organizations.
Etienne is also a founder of CPsquare, a cross-organizational, cross-sector
community of practice on communities of practice. His work is influencing
a growing number of organizations in the private and public sectors.
Indeed, cultivating communities of practice is increasingly recognized
as the most effective way for organizations to address the knowledge
challenges they face. Etienne helps organizations apply these ideas
through consulting, public speaking, and workshops, both online and
face-to-face. His new research project, "Learning for a small
planet," is a broad, cross-sectoral investigation of the nature
of learning and learning institutions at the dawn of the new millennium.
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