Managing Director, Sound Knowledge Strategies
Greater Seattle Area
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- Managing Director at Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC
- Past
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- Manager, External Research at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Director, Apple Education Foundation at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Manager, Training & Marketing Support at Logo Computer Systems, Inc.
- Education
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- Cornell University
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Barbara Bowen’s Summary
Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC Port Townsend, WA 2004-present
Managing Director
Sound Knowledge Strategies helps executives & managers enhance innovation and productivity by transforming the expert knowledge of individuals and teams into visual knowledge models.
The knowledge models: facilitate rapid knowledge transfer, promote sense-making, and foster effective communication by simplifying complex information and ideas.
SERVICES FOR BUSINESS
• Reduce loss of capacity when employees retire by retaining critical, high-value knowledge
• Facilitate discovery of essential business requirements for new products, services and joint ventures.
• Reduce cost of bringing new employees on board
SERVICES FOR EDUCATION
* Assist superintendents to: increase the district's capacity for effective instruction, conceptual thinking, and meaningful learning
* Assist educational leaders to build capacity in multi-stakeholder initiatives
Former: Apple Computer, Inc.
• Founder and manager, External Research, Apple Computer, Inc.
Increased Apple's technology portfolio. Reduced cost of hiring researchers & engineers. Facilitated effective transfer of university-based technologies to manufacturing, advanced technologies & product development.
* Director, Apple Education Foundation.
Created a vision of technology-enabled learning and teaching to guide high-impact grant programs and marketing collateral. Served on National Task Force on Educational Technology and National Science Foundation Advisory Boards.
Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI)
• Manager, Training and Marketing Support
Increased sales of Apple computers by developing effective marketing collateral for Apple's field sales team and through educational presentations to key customers.
Teaching: New York Univ., science education; Queens College, science & math education; Corlears School, NYC, inter-disciplinary science teacher, 3-12 year olds.
Barbara Bowen’s Specialties:
Application of advanced cognitive tools to enhance organizational effectiveness, high-impact facilitation, concept mapping, visual knowledge modeling, employee alignment and effectiveness.
Barbara Bowen’s Experience
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Managing Director
Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC
(Management Consulting industry)
March 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)
I draw upon knowledge and insights gained from over twenty-five years of affiliations with leaders in learning technologies and cognitive tools.
I helped transfer ground-breaking learning technologies from research labs to the marketplace:
• MIT Logo --> LCSI Logo --> Apple Logo, Apple's first co-branded software
product,
• Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments CSILE/
KnowledgeForumTM, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education --> commercial
product
• CmapToolsTM: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition(IHMC) --> small
business, large business, think tanks.
"What is the most important contribution I can make to this organization with my knowledge and skills and values?" Peter Drucker
My answer: Increase people's ability to make sense and create meaning from the information that bombards them and the work they're asked to do; help them experience the power of their knowledge. That's what Sound Knowledge Strategies does. -
Manager, External Research
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
March 1986 — March 1993 (7 years 1 month)
External Research was an intrapreneurial initiative to increase Apple's portfolio of advanced technologies, to provide an effective means to identify and recruit new talent, and to support Higher Ed Marketing.
The department created and managed collaborative research partnerships between Apple's engineers and researchers and leading university researchers for a broad range of technologies and research areas.
External Research partnerships generated new technologies for Apple's portfolio, including: human interface, manufacturing, object oriented databases, operating systems and advanced learning technologies.
The partnership strategy was researcher-to-researchers collaborations, an approach that was very popular with both University researchers and Apple employees.
External Research's policy of providing unrestricted fellowship support for graduate students led to highly productive internships and major reductions in the cost of recruiting researchers and engineers. -
Director, Apple Education Foundation
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1983 — March 1986 (3 years 3 months)
Developed new vision and program guidelines for corporate education foundation
Recruited Advisory Board of national experts
Keynote speaker on uses of technology to enhance learning
Contributed to Apple's strategy for K-12
Supported Apple's regional sales reps with research-based educational collateral
Represented Apple at international, national, and regional educational technology conferences and meetings, including the National Task Force on Educational Technology -
Manager, Training & Marketing Support
Logo Computer Systems, Inc.
(Management Consulting industry)
1980 — 1983 (3 years)
Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI) developed a commercial product based on the Logo computing language developed by Seymour Papert, Hal Abelson, Cynthia and colleagues at MIT's Laboratory of Computer Science. Apple Computer, Inc. entered into an agreement with LCSI to produce and market an "Apple-labeled" product.
Developed marketing and sales collateral.
Designed and conducted training for K-12 customers and educators.
Keynote speaker for Apple Education Marketing on Logo as a tool to develop thinking and "powerful ideas" of computation. Success in the latter role led to being recruited by Apple.
Barbara Bowen’s Education
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Cornell University
PhD, science education, ecology, cognitive science, 1968 — 1972
Dissertation: "Implications of Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' and David Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Learning for Development of Curriculum and Instruction in Science."
- Activities and Societies:
- University Senate, Modern Dance Club
Additional Information
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Barbara Bowen’s Groups:
Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Associationg for Curriculum Development (ASCD), Association of Knowledge Work (AOK), Poets Northwest, Washington Poets Association (WPA), LinkedIn LIONS
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Cornell University Alumni Network member
Barbara Bowen’s Honors:
Artist Trust Grant for Artist Project (GAP), 2007
Invited presenter, Gestion de Conocimiento, Bogota, Colombia, June, 2008.
Invited Presenter, E/merge2006: Online conference for researchers and educators in southern Africa, July, 2006
Ten Year Outstanding Contribution Award, Apple Computer, Inc. 1993
Leadership America Signature Award, 1992
National Task Force on Educational Technology, 1990
Who's Who of American Women, 1987
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