Training
Positive Deviance (PD) facilitators are individuals who have experience training organizations in the PD approach in a given sector, have implemented a PD informed project or have carried out participatory action research using the PD concept. To learn more about PD facilitation, hear the Voices from the Field.
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Inger W. Johannsen is a partner at Reflexio based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She brings over five years of experience to the Positive Deviance approach and has extensive knowledge working in sectors like vulnerable populations and education. She has worked with institutions for institutionalized children, and within the educational sector.
Jane Lewis is a consultant that has worked with the government, third sector, universities, and commercial companies through a social enterprise organization. She taught Positive Deviance at Oxford University, HEC Paris, and Oxford Brookes University. With over nine years of experience with the Positive Deviance approach, she has many publications dedicated to the approach.
Angela Sims is a consultant with experience in the public sector, communities, and not-for-profit. She has worked primarily in the United Kingdom with Woodward Lewis and Hidden Insights while applying the positive deviance approach for over thirteen years.
Monique Sternin is one of the pioneers of the PD approach and has worked closely with diverse communities and organizations worldwide to teach and implement the PD approach for over 20 years. Her work spans various sectors including education, public health, and displaced populations, among others.
Lars Thuesen is a PD consultant with 10 years of experience specialized in the justice, social, and humanitarian sector, among many others. He is involved with UN agencies, local authorities, and government sectors.
Ahmet Günes own his own company, Günes Consulting, where he has worked in applying the Positive Deviance approach for over eight years. He has worked in the private sector, in education, and with children with his own company as well as with PD Academy.