Alice Kolb is the President of Experience Based Learning Systems (EBLS), a research and development organization devoted to research and application of experiential learning in organizations worldwide. EBLS has developed many experiential exercises and self-assessment instruments including the latest Kolb Learning Style Inventory 4.0. The EBLS program of research on Experiential Learning Theory continues in collaboration with an international network of researchers, practitioners and learning partners.

As President of EBLS Alice facilitates research and practice initiatives of the international network. She was a co-developer of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory 4.0 and was the leader of the team that developed the Kolb Educator Role Profile, an inventory designed to help educators apply experiential learning principles in their work.

She was born and raised in Brazil and went to Japan where she received her BA in Japanese Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and MA and Doctorate in Human Resources Management from Hitotsubashi University. She received a MS in Human Resource Management from Cleveland State University and her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Organizational Behavior where she was an Adjunct Professor in the Weatherhead School of Management. She is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and English.

Her research focus on creating learning spaces conducive to deep learning led to her paper “Learning styles and learning spaces: Enhancing experiential learning in higher education” published in Academy of Management Learning and Education and “Learning to play, playing to learn: A case study of a ludic learning space,” published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management. She is currently preparing a book entitled Becoming an Experiential Educator: Principles and Practices of Experiential Learning with David Kolb. She and David received the 2008 “Educational Pioneers of the Year Award” from the National Society for Experiential Education.

Kay Peterson is the founder of the Institute for Experiential Learning, a board certified coach and organizational development consultant. Kay lives as a lifelong learner and brings an approach of curiosity, creativity and inspiration to her clients. Her previous career roles have included: clinical nurse specialist, sales manager, start-up entrepreneur, family-business owner, CEO, and president of a healthcare and library board. It was not until Kay “learned how to learn” with Experiential Learning that the lights went on regarding how people change and develop. Now, Kay delivers a creative and direct approach to help leaders and professionals to reach their highest potential at any point in their careers within organizations that are deliberately using the power of learning and development to thrive. She applies the values and ideas of Experiential Learning with clients and in her own life.

Kay’s goal is to put Experiential Learning on the agenda of every organizational change and development effort and anyone looking to enact personal change. Her research on learning flexibility is contributing to the already vast body of evidence about the power of learning to transform lives. Together with David A. Kolb, Kay has developed a new Team Learning Report that promotes team effectiveness by helping team members to identify their strengths and link them to the team learning process, and helping teams to employ a shared model of team learning.  David A. Kolb and Kay have also developed a Learning Style Flexibility Profile 360° Assessment that promotes personal and professional development through by measuring skills associated with the Learning Styles of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory 4.0.

Kay designs and delivers custom program for individual development and team effectiveness to support those who are working to simultaneously become more competitive and collaborative. She has worked with professionals in health care, law, service, finance, manufacturing, management, engineering, IT, education and non-profit settings. Kay also serves as a Master Coach at Case Western Reserve Weatherhead Executive Education.

Kay earned a MS-POD and MBA from Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, a MN from Emory University and a BS from Vanderbilt University. She is a Board Certified Coach and Professional Certified Coach with ICF. She has earned a Certificate in Appreciative Inquiry in Positive Business and Society Change, a Certificate for Developing Leadership through Emotional Intelligence for Coaching and Sustainable Change and is certified in the Hay Group Emotional and Social Competency Inventory and the Leadership Circle. Kay has completed post-graduate training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland in Gestalt Coaching, Training and Somatic Studies.  Kay completed the Coaching Program in Adult Development at the Center for Leadership Maturity.  Her current research explores the difference in individual contributors and leaders at different points in their legal careers through a lens of learning style. Her work in Experiential Learning has been published in HBR Guides, Forbes, TD Magazine, OD Practitioner and the Journal of Experiential Learning.  She has co-authored two books with David A. Kolb entitled How You Learn is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life (Berrett-Koehler, 2017) and How You Learn Is How You Live: Personal Development Guide (2017). Kay can be reached at Peterson@experientiallearninginstitute.org.

She received her Ph.D in Curriculum Development and Instruction field at Dokuz Eylul University,Izmir,Turkey. She was the first person in Turkey who studied Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory in an experimental research. She has numerous national and international studies on experiential learning, learning styles and strategies, contemporary approaches in teacher training, layered curriculum and differentiated curriculum. She carried out her postdoctoral research at Florida State University, USA. She also completed educational projects based on teaching-learning during her scholarly work life. She has been coordinating an Erasmus+ K-203 Project since 2018 which will be finalised in 2021, entitled Integration of Experiential Learning and Virtual Reality on Gifted Education

Özgehan Şenyuva is an Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where he works extensively on youth, public opinion, Turkey-European relations and the politics of European football. He has extensive experience in research projects, and was the principal investigator for the FREE: Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (free-project.eu), a pioneer FP7 project that was completed in 2015. He was also part of the FP7 SAHWA project (Researching Arab Mediterranean Youth: Towards a New Social Contract) (sahwa.eu), publishing numerous policy papers, reports and articles on Arab-Mediterranean Youth. He is currently one of the principal investigators of a large scale Horizon 2020 research project: FEUTURE – The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios (feuture.eu). He worked for more than two decades as a youth worker/trainer and comes from learning mobility field. He is a steering group member of European Platform on Learning Mobility and member of the Pool of European Youth Researchers of the European Commission and the Council of Europe. He has published numerous research and opinion articles, book chapters and a book on youth work and learning mobility. Most recently he has contributed to the two Youth Knowledge books; Thinking seriously about youth work and how to prepare people to do it and Learning mobility, social inclusion and non-formal education available for download at Youth Partnership web site: https://pjp-eu.coe.int/en/web/youth-partnership/knowledge-books

Mr. Mehmet Volkan Müderrisoğlu, started working in civil society field as a volunteer in early 90's. He has been working as a youth trainer since 2003 and delivering experiential learning-based trainings for trainers since 2006 at national and international levels. As General Coordinator of Experiential Training Center Association, he has taken important part in the adaptation of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed with Experiential Learning Theory in"Experiential Learning Development" and "Dialogue for Non-Formal Education" projects.  Within his remarkable experience in Non,formal Learning field for over 15 years, his main contribution in the civil society field is derived as combining sport methodologies with Experiential Learning Theory.

Currently, he is also the chairman of Istanbul Culture and Sport Association  and working on Learning by / for / through Sport. The key topics that he delivered trainings in sport field are empowerment of women in sport, volunteering in sport, using sport as a tool to combat bad habits, dual career and experiential learning in sport.

Experienced trainer, writer and consultant - based in Strasbourg, France. Empowering learners is his passion. Commitment to the recognition of non-formal learning led him to contribute to the development of the European Portfolio for Youth Workers and Leaders and to work on the development of Youthpass and be a member of its Advisory Group. He is a partner in the via Experientia consortium which sets out to expand the contours of experiential learning and research. A founding member of the editorial team and now for several years editor of Coyote youth work magazine.

Zeynep Tugce CIFTCIBASI GUC is a youth worker and trainer with experience in international education since 1999. She has since then concentrated on work in the field of European Union Education and Youth Programs, and has become a trainer at the European level. She was one of the people who lobbied for Erasmus Program and started to work as the Head of the International Relations Office at Akdeniz University during 2004 - 2013, where she coordinated the successful participation of the university in the European Union Education and Youth Program as the youngest Erasmus Coordinator in Turkey. Her work for the department received significant recognition from the European Commission for combining Youth and Erasmus program, which conferred the “Lifelong Learning ERASMUS Award in Bronze 2009 - Student Mobility” for excellence within the framework of the Erasmus Program. Nonetheless, she was the vice director of Euromed Youth Centre that was awarded the first “Quality Label of European Youth Centres” in 2012 by the Council of Europe. She has joined Abdullah Gül University in 2013 where she has been the director of a unique structure in Turkey “Youth Factory” dealing with youth work and institutional coordinator of Erasmus + Programme. She is a member of pool pf trainers of social entrepreneurship at national level.

Ülly Enn is a youth field enthusiast and expert, who has been active in the field for 27 years and currently works at a newly formed Education and Youth Authority in Estonia (https://harno.ee/en). She has contributed to some key youth policy milestones in Estonia, including development of youth field strategic plans on national level since 2001; Occupational Standard of Youth Workers; Competence Model of Youth Field Trainers; etc. She has worked long for the EU youth programmes, for SALTO-YOUTH Social Inclusion RC in Brussels and served as diplomat in the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU, chairing the EU Member States negotiations in European youth policy during the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2017, including initial agreements among EU Member States on the initiative of European Solidarity Corps. Ülly believes that she is living a life of experiential learning and has found inspiring opportunities to contribute her know-how also as trainer and author of numerous articles and publications. Alongside with her strong interest in European issues, she has done volunteer work in Japan, Russia, Middle-East and Malaysia, strengthening her passion towards the positive contribution of youth and youth field even further. You can write to Ülly at ully.enn@harno.ee

He is a graduate of Kocaeli University - Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences - Department of Economics. He started his business life in the tourism sector during his university years. Having worked as a middle and senior manager in Bando Tur and Anı Tur companies in the tourism sector, Çetin worked as a Sales Manager in Commercial Union Hayat Sigorta in the Insurance Sector in 2000. Cetin began working at Vodafone in 2001 in Large Customers and Key Account team. He also worked as an internal trainer at Vodafone. After 8 years of Corporate and Retail Channel management, he moved to the Commercial Marketing department at Vodafone. Since joining the Müderris Training Company in 2018, Çetin has been working on the integration of experiential learning  into corporate development programs.

Arzu, training volunteer. Her educational journey began with her university years as a human rights trainer in civil society organizationsAfter working as a trainer in civil society for 2 years, she started working in corporate academies. She has been an trainer for 8 years; she has been working as a Training and Development Specialist at Penti for 2 years. She designs non-formal training programs and works to ensure the continuity of experiential learning experience.

Nevin Özdemir was born on July 15, 1966, in Samsun, Turkey. She did her undergraduate work at the department of geography of Faculty of Languages History and Geography in Ankara University, Turkey. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Studies Education at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey. She graduated from Ankara University Department of Geography in 1986. She used to serve as a geography teacher between 1986 and 1988 in Diyarbakır High Scholl and as a research assistant between 1988 and 2004 in Dicle University in Diyarbakır. She received his MEd from the University of Atatürk, Turkey, in 1996 and her Ph.D. from Ankara University, Turkey, in 2002. Her dissertation is entitled, ‘The Settlements affected by natural disasters in Sinop’. After her doctoral work was finished, she started working as an assistant professor at Ondokuz Mayıs University in 2004. The researcher received the title of associate professor in the field of geography education in 2015. His research interests are geography and, environmental education, disaster education, learning styles, mental maps.

Bülent Yılmaz was born in 1974 in Giresun, Turkey. In 1992, he was accepted to Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department. In 1997, he graduated from this department and pursued his career in academia as a research assistant in the same department. He defended his master’s thesis at the end of 1999 and started his graduate education towards PhD in the Bioengineering Department of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. During his PhD thesis he dealt with the localization of heart rhythm disturbances using statistical signal processing techniques. The Whitaker Foundation sponsored his graduate study.

Dr. Yılmaz started his academic career in 2004 as an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Başkent University, Ankara. He contributed to the education of the first biomedical engineers of Turkey in this institute. In 2011, he was invited to become a part of the founding team to Abdullah Gül University, Kayseri. He is serving as the vice rector for education and as the chair of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department.

His major research interests are biomedical signal and image processing, especially brain-computer interface and automatic disease detection. He is also interested in innovative higher education systems and implementations. He taught many undergraduate and graduate courses in the abovementioned institutions. He participated in several projects as the principle investigator and investigator. Dr. Yılmaz has been serving as the team leader for the new generation university design project at AGU which is sponsored by the government. He served as the panelist and referee for many academic or industry projects.

He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology. He started his duty in Çekerek Körpınar Village in 1998 as an Authorized Teacher. He completed his bachelors degree in Ankara University, Institute of Science, Biology Department and his master's degree on Educational Economics Management Inspection Planning in the Institute of Educational Sciences of the same university. After working as a teacher and administrator in different schools, he was appointed as Adıyaman National Education Director in 2016. He has been working as the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation Department at the General Directorate of Lifelong Learning since August 2018.

Graduated from Uludag University, International Relations department. Studied in a post-graduate program on European Studies in Centre International De Formation Européenne and graduated from Social Projects and NGO Management MA in Istanbul Bilgi University. Seda has an intensive working experiences in civil society field, she has designed and managed many trainings and social projects under the various grant programs since 2003. Since 2018, she has been working as Business Development and Projects Director at Tohum Autism Foundation.

Affiliated with the Ministry for EU Affairs, The Centre for Education and Youth Programmes (Turkish National Agency) is a public body established for the implementation of the Erasmus+ Programme in Turkey. The Centre receives applications, evaluates and finances the projects and activities under these programmes.
He is coordinator Youth Work Department, in Erasmus Plus Youth Programme in Turkey. His main responsibilities are; – To prepare yearly work plan for EU Commission and the Ministry for EU Affairs
– To prepare and manage the yearly budget of the department

– To promote the programme in Turkey (with trainings and information activities)

– To support the target group (young people, organizations working with/for young people)

– To create partnerships with the other actors locally and internationally

– To coordinate the life cycle of the projects (receiving, assessing, monitoring, auditing, evaluating the final reports and the outcomes)

Michael Geisler is an Honorary Member and former Vice President of the German Basketball Federation.

He studied political science in Munich and pedagogy in Erlangen. After working for several years as a high school teacher he worked as project manager in the e-learning and secure communications industries.

Michael Geisler has also worked as basketball referee on all levels in Germany and as trainer, instructor and coach for basketball referees.

For more than 20 years he was responsible for national basketball sport in Germany, where he introduced new ways of training and coaching for professional referees. Following an Erasmus+ project he designed a new education program for young referees in Germany, based on Experiential Learning.

TRex (or Trainer Rex) is the Director of Passion for Perfection, a company that invents business and development games and implements experiential attitude-change training programs.  He is an accredited instructor of the Competency-based Economies through Formation of Enterprise (CEFE), the Dale Carnegie course, Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET) Ahead program of ILO, and the Haggai Institute leadership course (Philippine chapter).  He is the author of the books Generous Giving, Power to Create Righteous Wealth, Peratools, Called to Excel, Passion for Excellence, Passion for Energizers, etc.  He is a graduate of MA Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, the Netherlands and BS Psychology from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He is the Founder of the Gospel of Christ Family Church (GCFC) and the OB Christian Community Ministry. He had a radio segment called “Peratips.”  From 2017, he has a column in Pilipino Mirror entitled “Heto Yumayaman.” He is married to Angelita Resurreccion and has four children – Israel, Hannah, Mikhael and Milcah.

Dr. Anji Resurreccion works as a private consultant handling training, research and publication projects in the fields of Entrepreneurship Development, Enterprise Education, Achievement Motivation, Training of Trainers, Training Design and Implementation, and Business Development and Management. In the past six years she has been President of the Board of Trustees for Old Balara Christian Community School, where she has led a group of teachers in a community of practice on enterprise education. The curriculum uses experiential learning techniques to build an enterprising mindset among the youth, from Kindergarten to Grade 10.

Her work experience includes training and research at the University of the Philippines Institute for Small Scale Industries for a decade. Since 1988, she has mainly worked on training and extension projects for the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Agrarian Reform, in cooperation with development agencies like the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), the UN International Labour Organization and the International Trade Centre (Enterprise Management and Development Section) operating in the Philippines and outside, including Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tanzania, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

Anji Resurreccion obtained her Ph.D. Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of the Philippines in 2019. She completed her Masters’and Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology from the same university in 2000 and 1976, respectively.

Jovan Stalevski (b. 1982) (BA on Marketing Management) is a proven fundraiser, trainer and business planner. He trained +3500 people from 5 continents (from entrepreneurs, top managers, youth… refugees, minorities, farmers), held  +200 workshops, +4000 hours of business consulting and +1000 hours of mentoring and coaching. 

He worked on economic development programs with organizations such: USAID, GIZ, SDC, Erasmus+ and EU, and had fruitful cooperation with municipalities, public bodies, business incubators, hubs and business networks.

Current president of CEFE Macedonia – professional organization that promotes entrepreneurship culture and builds business competences. 

Certified International Senior CEFE Trainer, and certified EDC Washington Career Trainer. 

Fluently speaks English, French, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian.

International Chief Advisor and Master CEFE Trainer and Founder of CEFE in Venezuela, Organizational Consultant, graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas as an Industrial Relations graduate, in the area of Human Resources, aimed at the  enterprising world, which has led her to a training in Management and Talent Development  subjects, achieving a Cum Laude Specialization in Organizational Development with  honors at the same college where she carried out her studies. 

With 10-year work experience within one of the most renowned auto companies in the  industry such as Toyota Venezuela, handling Human Resource related processes,  achieving certificates as a facilitator in Toyota Way y Toyota Business Practices, advising  teams in the definition and continuous project implementation in several areas in the  organization. She also complemented her work experience with a Coaching Degree in  Transnational Analysis.  

Certified in Chile as a Representative to Venezuela and a Facilitator in the use of CEFE  Methodology (created by GIZ), where she works for the Development and Improvement of  Personal Competences, especially in the area of Income Generation and the Development  of affordable Economic and Social Entrepreneurship. She is currently working as the CEO  of the Centro de Estudios para la Formación de Emprendedores (CEFE Venezuela). 

Psycho Corporeal Group Facilitator, credited and trained at FUNDASOMA, Fundación  para el Estudio e Investigación Corporal, dedicated to promote and boost work,  capacitation and research of psycho corporal therapy and corporeal techniques. 

Currently, she works as COO of Grupo EASY in Venezuela and EASY International  Services LLC in Latin America and the United States, spreading her passion for boosting  new Leaders and Organizations.

International Chief Advisor and Master CEFE Trainer, training CEFE trainers and Founder  of the “CEFE Training” Capabilities Development Network, applied in Venezuela,  Colombia and the United States. Graduated at Universidad Metropolitana with a degree in  Business Sciences, namely Business Management. After having studied at the Dominican  University in Chicago, USA, he aimed his management training towards the Sales,  Marketing and Organizational Development areas; accomplishing Cum Laude honors in  the latter at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Graduated as an International Coach and  Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming by the International Coaching Community. 

Serial entrepreneur, acknowledged by GERENTE Magazine as one of the 100 most  successful managers in 2016 and recognized by Ernst and Young in 2019 as one of the 10  Inspiring Leaders in Management in the country, in the Emerging Entrepreneurs area at  the LEI (Líderes Empresariales Inspiradores) Awards, recognized by the Venezuelan  Society of Coaching (Sovencoaching) on the cover of their magazine published in April  2020 as an entrepreneurship inspirer of the moment, and as a “Man who Does Bigger  Things”, such recognitions are given due to the implementation of the CEFE Methodology  in Venezuela as a methodological tool to boost the productive, economic, social, and  environmental development in the country. 15 years of experience along in management,  commercial, marketing and general manager jobs, which has given him the opportunity to  interact in several cultures around Latin America and the United States, jobs that have  granted him the chance to handle work teams and carry out training and development  processes on people. 

Group Psycho Corporeal Facilitator, credited and trained by FUNDASOMA, Fundación  para el Estudio e Investigación Corporal, aimed at promoting and boosting the work, the  capacitation, and the research on psycho corporeal therapy and corporeal techniques. 

Credited in Chile in 2015 as a Representative and Facilitator to Venezuela in the use of  CEFE Methodology (Created by GIZ), where he works for the Development and  Improvement of Personal Competences, especially in the Income Generation and the  Development of Affordable Economic and Social Entrepreneurship. Experienced in the  application of CEFE Methodology in Latin American border environments between  Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela thanks to GIZ Colombia and GIZ Ecuador.

Currently, he works as an Executive Chief/CEO of Grupo EASY in Venezuela and EASY  International Services, LLC in Latin America and the United States, spreading his passion  for boosting Leaders and Organizations.