George Pór is a strategic learning partner and adviser to leaders in international business, government and NGOs in matters of innovation, change management, collective intelligence, and knowledge ecology. He is assisting them to cultivate an "appreciation culture" in their organizations, a web of supportive relationships that reflect and promote organic patterns of wholeness, balance, and beauty. An executive mentor, he facilitates the transition of organizations to higher stages of collective intelligence and performance. George is the Founder and a Senior Consultant of CommunityIntelligence Ltd.

Since the early 80's, George has been pioneering the development of new engines of value-creation with knowledge networks and communities of practice, and architecting virtual communities that engage the power of self-organizing processes. He combines European values with American "can do" dynamism and ancient wisdom practices.

He served as Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD, Research Fellow in the Complexity Research Group at London School of Economics, and currently, he is PrimaVera Research Fellow in Collective Intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam. He is a Fellow of the Art of Hosting, a Presencing practitioner, and a Steward of the World Café.

George's signature projects include: the launch of the first online course on communities of practice, co-taught with Etienne Wenger in 1998, and the web-based Knowledge Ecology Fair where 400 knowledge managers from around the world participated in virtual workshops and online café conversation, in the same year. He is the author of "Liberating the Innovation Value of Communities of Practice," several other book chapters and over 100 articles translated into French, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew. He is the publisher of the Blog of Collective Intelligence.

His current and past clients include: British Petroleum, Dutch government, EDS, Ericsson, European Commission, European Foundation for Management Development, European Investment Bank, Ford Motor Co., Hewlett Packard, INSEAD, Intel, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Re, and Unilever. George lives in Brussels and speaks English, French, Hungarian and Russian. Website: www.community-intelligence.com/.