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Biographical Info
Katalina was raised in Chicago and studied finance and economics at Northwestern University before becoming a commodities trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. After a few years on the trading floor, Katalina visited a film set to work for a day. She was awed by the communicative power of filmmaking, and before the week was over, she abruptly decided to leave her trading career to make films-something she knew nothing about. The energy and power of collaboration she discovered on the set was unlike anything she had experienced before. Production men and women of all personalities and talents worked passionately together to create a good shot. Cheering each other on was constant. Everyone helped everyone, and nothing worked unless it all worked together. The process was difficult yet that much more rewarding for it. A new path was chosen. Katalina began her filmmaking and production career working on independent feature films and documentaries, and soon after was hired by New World Entertainment to help launch their educational division, New World Knowledge, where she co-wrote and produced award-winning films. In 2000, she launched a new educational series, Katalina Groh Presents, Real People, Real Stories™, specifically designed to focus on the power and practice of storytelling and its potential to teach, transform, and inspire. In 2005, Katalina launched Groh Records, and Groh Publishing to bring the storytelling experience of music and songwriters to a growing global audience, believing nothing can inspire more than great music that tells a story. www.grohproductions.com
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John Seely Brown, is currently a visiting scholar at USC and prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)-a position he held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, ethnographic studies of the workscape and nano technology. John is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Social Life of Information. His most recent book is The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization, co-authored with John Hagel (Harvard Business School Press; May, 2005). 
Stephen Denning, formerly Program Director for Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program. He now works globally as an independent management consultant. Steve is the author of the highly praised books, The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations and, Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership and Storytelling. His most recent book is The Leader's Guide To Storytelling (Jossey Bass, April 2005). 
Laurence Prusak formerly with IBM Global Services, is a researcher and consultant and was the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management (IKM). This was a global consortium of member organizations engaged in advancing the practice of knowledge management through action research. Larry has had extensive experience, within the U.S. and internationally, in helping organizations work with their information and knowledge resources., He has authored/co-authored/or edited several books, most recently Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning (Oxford University Press, 2005). 
Katalina Groh, founded Groh Productions, Inc. in 1997. The company produces and distributes learning programs, documentaries, books, feature films and live learning experiences in more than 82 countries.