Charlotte Roberts

4613 Welborne Dr., P.O. Box 309
Sherrill's Ford, NC 28673-0309
Chmroberts@aol.com

Charlotte Roberts is an executive consultant speaker and writer who focuses on organizations' sustainability and competitiveness. She is co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization with her colleagues Peter Senge, R. Ross, B. Smith and A. Kleiner. This practical guidebook used by managers and practitioners in creating an enduring competitive advantage has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Their second book, The Dance of Change, A Fieldbook for Sustaining Momentum in a Learning Organization, was published in March 1999.

Charlotte Roberts has been an organizational development consultant for over 15 years, including 8 years with Innovation Associates. Roberts'clients have been in different industries from shipbuilding to computer software and hardware design to consumer products pet nutrition to healthcare delivery. Charlotte Roberts works with her clients on strategy implementation and building high-performing learning teams and organizations.

Charlotte Roberts uses her hand-on experience and wealth of anecdotes in keynote speaking, training and writing to engage others in learning. Recognizing the power of distance learning as early as 1993, Roberts has hosted nationwide satellite broadcasts on leadership, managing people and building the learning capacity of organizations. Roberts and Peter Senge led a satellite broadcast series in 1993-96. In 1998, Charlotte Roberts introduced the sixth discipline of leadership in a nation-wide broadcast that has been produced as a video program, "Conscious Oversight: The Sixth Discipline."

For three years, Charlotte Roberts'column, "Managing People," was featured in a business j journal in the Philadelphia area. Roberts' articles, "Leading Total Quality" and "Can We Talk-" have been published in the Journal for Quality and Participation. Roberts also wrote the foreword to a landmark learning tool in healthcare management, Work and Role Redesign by Hanson and Sayers, 1995.

Charlotte Roberts' article, "The Learning Organization: Making It Work," was published in the June, 1996, proceedings of Foundation de L'Enterprise, Brussels, Belgium, where Roberts presented before European executives, Belgian government officials and His Majesty Albert II. The meeting focused on Europe as a unified knowledge-based society.

In Spring, 1997, Charlotte Roberts toured China with a group studying the medical delivery system and alternative healing practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine.