Dick and Claire Knowles are presenting at the Association of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College (ASPEC) during March. Dick is presenting in the ASPEC series on Complexity and Decision-Making; Claire is presenting in association with WomenSpeak on the Glow Project.

Dick Knowles completed a trip to Penang, Malaysia (near Kuala Lumpur), where he and Gwen Andrews’ joint paper was well-received. “A Practical, East-West Exploration of Leadership and Learning” was noted as a significant contribution to this First International Conference, Exploring Leadership and Learning Theories in Asia, sponsored by Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dick Knowles continued his work travels to Australia during February/March where he worked with several companies in the arenas of Business Leadership & Effectiveness and Safety Leadership. The Process Enneagram continues to prove to be a most useful model to help leaders move their respective organizations successfully forward, achieving remarkable results.

Claire Knowles was guest dinner speaker for the Buffalo Niagara Travel Professionals on February 1. Her talk provided seven different ways that participants can move forward with positivity, balance their stress levels and validate themselves in this crazy world.

Claire Knowles worked with a group of 31 people at a Niagara-area financial institution to lift up what it means to be truly professional – behaviorally, emotionally, and, most important, committed to the basic principles on which professionalism is anchored.

Claire Knowles will be a featured columnist in the Western New York Women online magazine. You can find her writings at www.wnywomen.com.

Claire Knowles will be presenting at the Western New York Professional Development Consortium, on October 5. Her session, specific to the GED Instructors, is on “Guiding Your Students Through the Self Discovery Process.”

Dick Knowles will be presenting at the Organization Development Network of Western New York (ODN of WNY) meeting in Buffalo, New York, on October 8. His talk will address “Leadership…the Key to our Sustainable Future.”