Alan Stern

Alan Stern is Founder and Principal of Stage Right! Organizational Development, a training and OD firm in the Saratoga Springs, New York area. After more than 30 years of experience in education, government and theater, he formed Stage Right to help organizations of all kinds businesses, non-profits, human services, government, health care, and schools use creativity, spontaneity and authentic communication to make meaningful and sustainable change and maximize success. Imagine, creativity and spontaneity in government! Alans work applies a unique set of approaches based on the solid principles of organizational improvement, particularly Appreciative Inquiry, and the serious business of improv and theater.

Stage Right provides programs on performance leadership, personal and organizational; authentic communication; and finding what works in an organization and building on those strengths (not your usual approach to problem solving). Alan has helped attorneys run around a mountain retreat on a scavenger hunt, commissioners from the UK play telephone, and whole office staffs tell stories and create paper cut-out murals - all to be better able to work together, communicate better and perform better, as individuals and as teams.

Alan does keynotes and conference presentations and has presented internationally at the American Society for Training and Development, Institute of Fundraising in Birmingham, UK, Diversity in Fundraising in London, UK, and the International Leadership Association in Amsterdam, Holland. His clients have included: NYS Department of Transportation, NYS Attorney Generals Office, NYS Office of the State Comptroller, NYS Governors Office of Employee Relations, Centre for Public Innovation, London, England, Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools, Charlotte, North Carolina, St. Marys School for the Deaf, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services of the Berkshires, and St Peters Hospital.