Shawn Callahan

Current

• Honourary Research Fellow at Monash University
• Founder and Director at Anecdote

Past

• Knowledge & Strategy Consultant & Regional Lead for Cynefin Centre at IBM
• KM Practice Leader at IBM Australia
• Consultant at SMS Consulting Group

• Senior Consultant at Sybase

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Education

• The Australian National University
• Australian National University
• Copeland College

• Ginninderra High School

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Shawn Callahan’s Summary

Management consultant who has been designing and implementing organisational change initiatives for the past 15 years. Specific skills and interest in anthropological techniques such as the collection and interpretation of workplace stories.

Was a core member of the Cynefin Centre, an international group that applies complexity principles to tackle intractable organisation issues.

Both a researcher and hands-on practitioner who enjoys spanning the divide between consulting and academia.

Recent projects include issues of trust, aging workforce, narrative representation, knowledge strategy, lessons learned, communities of practice, knowledge mapping and intellectual capital management.

Co-founder of the ActKM, the largest community of practice for public sector knowledge managers. Co-founder of Worldwide Story Work, a community of practice for story practitioners.

Shawn Callahan’s Specialties:

knowledge strategy, change management, narrative techniques, collaboration, communities of practice, expertise location, change management, culture change

Shawn Callahan’s Experience

• Honourary Research Fellow

  Monash University

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Founder and Director

  Anecdote

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 2004 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Consultant, researcher and business owner.

• Knowledge & Strategy Consultant & Regional Lead for Cynefin Centre

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — August 2004 (4 years)

  Knowledge management practice leader for Australia and New Zealand.
  
  Regional lead for IBM's Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity.
  
  Management consultant focussed on decision making, innovation and culture change using complexity, narrative and knowledge management techniques.

• KM Practice Leader

  IBM Australia

  (Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years)

• Consultant

  SMS Consulting Group

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SMX; Management Consulting industry)

  1996 — 2000 (4 years)

  Lead the design and implementation of a range of information and knowledge management systems. Clients included Federal Airports Corporation, Defence Signals Directorate, Australian Communications Authority and Department of Defence.

• Senior Consultant

  Sybase

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SY; Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years)

Shawn Callahan’s Education

• The Australian National University

  BA , Geography , 1983 — 1988

• Australian National University

  BA (Hons) , Geography, Archeaology , 1983 — 1987

  Activities and Societies:

  ActKM

• Copeland College

  Year 12 , 1981 — 1982

• Ginninderra High School

  1977 — 1980

Additional Information

Shawn Callahan’s Websites:

• My Website
• My RSS feed

Shawn Callahan’s Interests:

organisational learning, knowledge management, US history, tennis, basketball, expertise, art

Shawn Callahan’s Groups:

Knowledge Management Leadership Forum (Melbourne), Emergence Meetup (Melbourne), SIKMLeaders,, Cognitive Edge practitioners, CPSquare, ActKM, STorytelling ORganization Institute (STORI)

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Worldwide Management Consultants (22,000+ members)
•    Knowledge Liberation Army (KLA)
•    ODPN Organization Development Professionals Network
•    Knowledge Management Experts
•    CKO (Chief Knowledge Officers) Forum
•    Organisational Development
•    Sales, Marketing and Senior Executive Club - Asia Pacific
•    CHANGE Consult
•    Organizational Change Practitioners
•    KM Australia
•    Communities of Practice
•    actKM
•    KM Edge
•    Wikinomics
•    Corporate Story Telling
•    Stories for Business
•    Melbourne KMLF
•    Indigenous Knowledge Management

Shawn Callahan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch