Barbara Bowen, PhD is Managing Director of Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC an international management consulting firm specializing in the application of advanced cognitive learning tools to facilitate productivity, innovation, and effectiveness. Dr. Bowen helps companies harvest and use the tacit knowledge ("deep smarts") of individuals and teams so that strategic business issues are addressed in a highly- effectively and cost-effective manner.

Dr. Bowen founded and managed Apple Computer, Inc's. External Research Program, in the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and directed The Apple Education Foundation. She is an expert in the knowledge elicitation and visual knowledge modeling. She has helped clients apply these powerful cognitive tools to enhance the performance of executives and teams.

Bowen brings over 30 years of professional experience including 10 years at Apple, Inc. where she was the recipient of a 10 Year Outstanding Contribution Award. Sound Knowledge Strategies has assisted small business, innovators, major non-profits and government agencies to enhance team and organizational performance.

Sound Knowledge Strategies, LLC Managing Director 2004-present
• First Page Google rank for four years for visual knowledge model created for S2KM
* Featured presenter: Gestion de Conocimiento, Bogota, Colombia June, 2008
• Work done for client in a professional services firm was featured as a market analysis
innovation in a widely-used marketing textbook
* Author and co-author of 5 published papers on using knowledge elicitation and concept
mapping to enhance effectiveness and build organizational capacity

Educational Transformations, Principal Consultant 1993-2001
Assisted school district leaders to transform K-12 classrooms into technology-enabled
collaborative knowledge building communities where students worked with knowledge &
learning the way experts do.

Apple Computer, Inc. 1983-1993
* Manager, External Research, Advanced Technology Group
* Director, Apple Education Foundation

Logo Computer Systems, Inc. Manager of Training & Marketing Support 1990-1993