Jean Alvarez was a member of the original Design Team for Engaging Impasse: Circles of Contemplation and Dialogue®. Jean is a Senior Partner with Organizational Leadership, Lakewood, OH, a consulting firm working primarily with not-for-profit organizations in the areas of mission clarification ad implementation. Along with her partner, Nancy Conway, CSJ, Jean has provided consultation and training for approximately 110 Catholic religious congregations in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe, most recently working primarily with leadership groups. Other consultation and training include St. Paul Public Schools, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Catholic Health Association, and American Friends Service Committee. With Nancy Conway, Jean has co-authored Collaboration in Religious Communities: Gathering Our Learnings, Exploring the Questions (1999), and numerous articles in Human Development. She is also a co-author of The Foundation of Oppression (1976). Jean has serve as adjunct faculty in the Graduate School of Social Work at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH and is a former associate professor and chairperson of the Department of Psychology, Siena Heights College, Adrian, MI. In 1979, she received the Danforth Associateship for outstanding college teaching. She holds an Ed.D from the University of Northern Colorado; M.A., in Human Relations, St. Cloud State University; M.S., in Perceptual Motor Behavior, Purdue University; B.A. in Elementary Education and Physical Education, Oberlin College. She is currently pursuing her interest in the brain, and in methods for working with the normal cognitive decline associated with aging and with chemotherapy. Jean’s web site is www.JeanandNancy.org. Nancy Conway, CSJ was a member of the original Design Team for Engaging Impasse: Circles of Contemplation and Dialogue®. As a Senior Partner in the company Organizational Leadership, Lakewood, OH, Nancy has worked as an organizational consultant for over 130 not-for-profit agencies, hospitals and religious groups. Along with her partner, Jean Alvarez, she has conducted seminars, workshops and consultations with individual organizations, helping groups to clarify their mission, to identify the blocks to mission achievement, and to set up structures which flow from their identified values and mission. She and Jean have presented workshops on Conflict Management in Collaborative Organizations, Leading the Learning Community, and Leading in a Time of Reconfiguration. With Jean Alvarez, Nancy has co-authored Collaboration in Religious Communities: Gathering our Learnings, Exploring the Questions, as well as numerous articles in Human Development. She has presented papers at conferences throughout the United States on topics such as, “Catholic School Desegregation: A Religious Community Model” and “Strategies to Achieve Multi-Cultural Membership in Religious Communities.” Nancy is a member of the Congregational Leadership Team of the new Congregation of St. Joseph, founded in 2007 by seven independent congregations. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from The Union Institute & University; a M.S.W. from Case Western Reserve University; and a B.A. in Spanish and Education from John Carroll University. Nancy’s web site is www.JeanandNancy.org. Return to the Top Back to Who We Are