Services, Mission, Philosophy,
The International Center for the Advancement of Adult Learning was a female owned, private firm comprised of a core team of experts in adult learning and living systems dynamics, and a virtual team of peer professionals: academics, researchers, program designers, analysts and educational consultants.
Behavior Affects Productivity and Development Learning Affects Behavior
Founded in 1989, ICAAL provided services in knowledge dissemination improving the efforts of clients in industry, health care, academia, and government. ICAAL’s methods and strategies used natural learning abilities, peripheral competencies, complex systems’ behavior and multiple intelligence frameworks for first and second level learning affecting outcomes.
ICAAL Offered Over a Century of Combined Experience
Practice included experts with experience in the fields of adult learning,
information/innovation diffusion, community development, government policy, information physics, anthropology, sociology, military intelligence, behavioral psychology, living systems dynamics, and adult motivation/ persistence theory.
Services
ICAAL, and its consulting division, Adaptive Solutions, provided a full range of diagnostic, advisement, policy and materials design services. Their strength was in their ability to discover and synthesize evidence, and articulate complex ideas into content driven processes that accelerate learning, improve knowledge transfer, and information/innovation diffusion. They worked closely with their clients taking each project from conceptualization through implementation.
Services included, but are not limited to, interactive organizational learning workshops, the creation of custom designed tools and strategies for internal information/ innovation diffusion and scenario building/strategic planning facilitation. Consultation and advisement was available both on and off site.
Teaching your leadership:
Learning Organization Design
Systems Thinking
Interdependency Tools and Concepts
Barrier Mapping
Team Learning Strategies
Corporate Strategy Alignment
Directional Research
Strategic Modeling
Organizational Assessment
Discovering potential, building capability, encouraging creativity, improving organizational adaptability, boosting effectiveness and encouraging group collaboration and cooperation
ICAAL and the advisement/education division – Adaptive Solutions – served clients from a wide range of sectors around the world in the use and guidance of information for a variety of purposes, including: human development, change “management”, innovation diffusion, policy creation, knowledge transfer facilitation, general collaboration building, communications and project management:
Government – Policy and Program Advisement;
Information Management, Conflict Resolution,
Cultural Interface
Business/Industry – Executive Coaching/Advisement, Product/Innovation Diffusion;
Information Management; Knowledge Transference
Health Care – Community Wellness Programs,
Community Relations, Innovation Diffusion;
Knowledge Transfer;
Behavior Modification
Education – School Creation;
Adult Curriculum Development;
Community Relations;
Campus Development
Community – Policy Creation Processes, Visioning,
Community Development;
Economic and Education Related Advisement;
Community Curriculum Design
philosophy
Learning is the prerequisite to overcoming barriers.
Innovation requires awareness, interaction, participation
and involvement.
Learning relationships are the key to eliminating
resistance.
Trust invites engagement and accelerates learning.
Lifelong learning is the responsibility of the individual,
organization, and community.
mission
The International Center for the Advancement of Adult Learning is
committed to the mission of helping others promote adaptive change in communities and organizations by providing research and research based services relating to the adult learning process through consulting, advisement, and creative, interactive solutions.
research
How Adults Learn:
A Developmental Approach
Strategies Toward Achieving Renewed Success (STARS): Adults & Change
Bridging The Atlantic: Learning for a Global Society
Women & International Success as Entrepreneurs (WISE)
Education and Economics: Educated humans as a resource
Global Changes in Higher Education: Threats or Opportunities? Confronting Change
Curricula and Syllabi: The Relationship to Performance Standards and Measures of Outcome
Poverty, Priorities, and Strategies for Higher & Adult Education
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Borderless Business
Sustainability Compact for Local Government and Citizenry
LEAD: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Development
Systemic, Sustainable Communities: A Peer Approach
Leaders and Followers: Cognitive and Behavioral Factors
Information Transfer and Differing Sensory Modalities
Transformative Learning in Action
Integration of Adult Education
The Concept of Care in the Healthcare Framework
Improving Communication between Doctors and Nurses
Adult Learner’s Needs: Strategies for Workplace Training
Adult Learners and Life-long Learning
Enhancing the Learning Experiences of Adults
