about the authors

Sue Annis Hammond and Andrea B. Mayfield are collaborating on a number of initiatives. They offer pragmatic people development solutions to achieve individual, team and organizational success.

Sue Annis Hammond is a Change Management Consultant with a unique combination of extensive consulting and entrepreneurial experience. She has more than 20 years of consulting experience, including 10 years of internal work at Meredith Corporation and Principal Financial Group, 12 years of external consulting, and six years as an entrepreneur.

Sue is a nationally recognized expert in Appreciative Inquiry, a process that changes the focus from finding out what is going wrong to discovering and expanding best practices in organizations. Her first book The Thin Book® of Appreciative Inquiry is a national bestseller, with sales in excess of 150,000 copies. Sue started Thin Book Publishing in response to the book's success and customer requests for more "thin books." The company is devoted to publishing "just in time"; cutting-edge knowledge for organizational clients.

Sue completed a Master's of Organizational Development at Bowling Green Graduate School of Business, where she was the 1991 Minninger Foundation Fellow. She also holds a B.A. and a M.A. in English from SUNY Fredonia, and currently lives in Bend, Oregon. She can be contacted at sue@thinbook.com.

Andrea B. Mayfield is an Organization Development Consultant focused on leadership strategy work. With proven skills in leadership development, change management, and executive meeting facilitation, her principal focus is working with leaders to identify, plan and pursue development needs for themselves and their organizations. Her broad experience was developed through internal consulting work with NASA, American Airlines and Mary Kay Cosmetics as well as her external consulting practice. This combination of experiences has equipped her with an understanding of very large, complex organizations as well as fast-paced entrepreneurial settings.

Andrea's consulting services include confidential assistance in evaluating systems, designing strategies for change, and implementing interventions. She designs, manages and evaluates individual and system-wide leadership development programs. Andrea serves as an executive coach to executives in a variety of industries and has built high-potential development programs in large organizations . Andrea has an Organization Development Certificate from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Community Counseling from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in Psychology from Dickinson College. Andrea currently resides in Cappella, Texas, and can be reached at andrea@bordleydevelopment.com, or at www.bordleydevelopment.com.

Both Sue and Andrea offer workshops and keynote speeches on Naming the Elephant and fostering open dialogue in organizations.