Dare to Dream: an excerpt from Oracle of the Obvious: Secrets to Common Sense Leadership by Ray Jorgensen, Ph.D and Dena Hurst, Ph.D

Raymond D. Jorgensen, Ph.D. – Director of the Jorgensen Learning Centerr
Ray spent thirty years in America’s private and public schools as a teacher, coach, department head, collegiate faculty member and school administrator. Today he provides leadership development consultative services to a variety of public and private organizations and coaches the internal JLC leader consultants.

During his three decades of public service, Ray was called upon by various communities to present seminars on both the technical and personal sides of leadership, management and learning. These forays into public speaking defined Ray’s work with various businesses and organizations and ultimately led him to his current position as Director of the Jorgensen Learning Center. Ray has worked with public and private school systems, city and county governments, hospitals, banks, military, physicians’ offices, and a variety of private businesses as a keynote speaker, facilitator, and seminar-workshop leader. Ray’s professional consulting is defining programs as systemic efforts to develop the leadership capabilities needed for any organization to thrive.

Dena Hurst, Ph.D. is a practicing philosopher whose passion is to help individuals and organizations realize their full creative potential. Her approach emphasizes conversation theory, styles and techniques as a means of building leadership capacity in individuals and organizations. Dena utilizes the concept of Conversational Leadership to work with individuals and organizations to create an environment of openness, trust, respect, and accountability, to improve communication.

Dena holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and a doctorate in Philosophy. She has worked for the past 13 years for a university outreach institute in the roles of project manager, project leader, research director, financial officer, and chief operations officer. Her varied duties allowed her to work with government and university leaders at all levels, local and state elected officials, gube
atorial and legislative commissions, and professional associations.

Dena also founded a not-for-profit, EHC, Inc., to foster conversation among scholars around the globe. She has coordinated 3 successful dialogue sessions in Califo
ia, and Czech Republic. She also volunteers for the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and and has taught performance management and leadership skills to groups in St. Kitts/Nevis.
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