Mr. Hovell is the Managing Director and co-founder of STRATactical. He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies and their application to current organizational challenges. John believes and practices the blend of OD, KM, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, especially in online and virtual environments. John is on the team to converge these fields and create an emerging new discipline currently known as Conversational Leadership. Clients of STRATactical International report award-winning improvements in organizational performance, customer satisfaction, and retention, and employee engagement and retention.
John led a team to win a Chairman's Award at BAE Systems in 2014. Previously, John was part of a team to win the prestigious NOVA award, Lockheed Martin's top recognition award. Additionally, he has been instrumental in the creation and execution of transformation change efforts in dozens of countries.
John volunteers as the corporate lead for the award-winning annual STEMmerday event where thousands of participants engage in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math related learning activities. John serves on several advisory boards including the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, International Knowledge Management Institute, Training Industry Quarterly, and Synergy Development and Training.
John has led 5 different teams that have won awards from Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2015, he was named the 8th most influential person in Knowledge Management. He published a chapter in a book titled "Making It Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management" and became a fellow with the Royal Society for Arts (RSA). In 2009, he was honored by Training Magazine as one of the "Top Young Trainers" after being honored in 2008 as one of the top “Young Trainers to Watch.”
John identifies as loving awareness and is particularly passionate in an emerging field called Conversational Leadership. Conversational Leadership is a blend of Organization Development, Diversity & Inclusion, Knowledge Management, and Project Management. More information at https://www.conversational-leadership.com
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I AM
I am loving awareness
I wonder if tension and resistance is required for progress
I hear sadness in the trees that rarely gets spoken
I see a broad range of colorful energy floating between people and systems
I feel the full range of emotions in most moments, a unique experience to focus
I want to be with you, and with me, and with us, I want contact
I hope we interact from our learning edges
I worry how many conversations miss opportunities, especially, silence for injustice
I try to be aware, and interact, with ethical presence
I wish for nothing, merely experience
I say what this body feels needs to be said
I believe in the awesome miracle of individual and whole in emergent ever changing relationship
I understand that I will never understand
I am here
