Featured Guest Bloggers

As a leader in the convergenc eof Knowledge Management (KM) and Organization Development (OD), John Hovell is Managing Director and Co-Founder at STRATactical International.He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies and theirapplication to current challenges.

John led a team to win a Chairman's Award at BAE Systems in 2014. Previously, John was part of a team to win the prestigious NOVA award, Lockheed Martin's top recognition award. Additionally, he was instrumental in the creation and execution of the enterprise KM strategy for ManTech InternationalCorporation.

John has led 5 different teams that have won awards from Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2015, he was named the 8th most influential person in KM.  He published “Creating ConversationalLeadership” in 2023. In 2009, he was honored by Training Magazine as one of the "Top Young Trainers" after being honored in 2008 as one of thetop “Young Trainers to Watch.” He earned his Project ManagementProfessional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in 2005. Heearned his Master’s degree from The George Washington University in Washington,D.C. and his Bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. He is also certified in Organization Development as well as Gestalt Psychotherapy in Organizations.
He is proud to be a board member for several organizations. 

John has been a KM Institute Instructor for several years and teaches the Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM), and several CKS (Specialist)courses: Organization Development, Conversational Leadership, and Knowledge Transfer.

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Amanda Winstead is a writer from the Northwest US area with a background in communications and a passion for telling stories. She has been following Knowledge Management for several years and it's one of her favorite topics to explore. Along with writing she enjoys traveling, reading, working out, and going to concerts.

If you want to follow her writing journey, or even just say hi you can find her on Twitter or LinkedIn or check out her portfolio.

Devin Partida is the Editor-in-Chief of ReHack.com, a freelance writer, and has been following Knowledge Managerment for some time. Though she is interested in all kinds of technology topics, she has steadily increased her knowledge of niches such as BizTech, MedTech, FinTech, the IoT and cybersecurity.

Connect with Devin at LinkedIn here...

Check out her portfolio here...

Lucy Manole is a creative content writer and strategist at Marketing Digest. She specializes in writing about digital marketing, technology, entrepreneurship, and SaaS, and has been following Knowledge Management. When she is not writing or editing, she enjoys reading books, cooking, and traveling.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/l-manole

Rooven Pakkiri is an accomplished KM Consultant, Author and Instructor, and teaches the Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) program for Europe and the Certified AI Manager (CAIM) for the North America and Europe.

Rooven's next classes:
Certified AI Manager (CAIM) for Europe, Sep 29-Oct 2; details here...
Certified AI Manager (CAIM) for North America, Oct 27-30; details here....
Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) for Europe: Nov 24-27; details here...

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Michael Sequeira is working with Sanctuary Group as an integral part of their Central Recruitment Team.

Michael is known for:
#️⃣ Building Stakeholder Relationships improving business outcomes
#️⃣ Delivering high-performance outcomes across tight deadlines
#️⃣ Creative thinking leading to Process Improvements innovating new ways of working

Michael has worked across global client facing roles as a Consultant, Account Manager and Programme Manager for firms like Ernst & Young and Wipro.

Mike was born in India and was awarded 🏆2013 President of India Gold Medal (India has 2.68 Cr persons with disabilities or 2.21% of population. Each year one individual is recognised across 21 disability types by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities). Connect with Michael at LinkedIn here...

Harikrishna Kundariya is a marketer, developer, IoT, Cloud & AWS savvy, co-founder, and Director of eSparkBiz, a Software Development Company. His 14+ years of experience enables him to provide digital solutions to new start-ups based on IoT and SaaS applications.