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Erika Andersen
http://www.proteus-international.com/erika_andersen

Since 1980, Erika Andersen has become known for her ability to create learning solutions uniquely tailored to her clients' challenges, goals, and culture. She focuses on thoroughly understanding each organization and on designing approaches that are engaging, direct, simple, and "learner-friendly." Some of the clients for whom she has designed programs include PepsiCo, MTV Networks, Simon and Schuster, Reader's Digest, Taco Bell, and Lifetime Television.

Peter Block has said of her work, "You have a wonderful gift and talent for taking the essence of things and expressing them in a simple, yet powerful way." Erika uses metaphor and models to help people learn about themselves and their organizations, and then to decide how to move toward the future they envision. While she encourages clients to think deeply and to examine their assumptions and patterns of behavior, she also offers practical methods and skills for individuals, teams, and companies to achieve their hoped-for-future.

Much of Erika's recent work has focused on organizational visioning and development, executive coaching, and collaborative change and learning. In these capacities she has served as consultant and advisor to the CEOs and top executives of a number of corporations, including Coors Brewing Company, Regeneration Technologies, Inc., the French Culinary Institute, Bravo Networks, Union Square Hospitality Group, Emerson College, and Comedy Central.

Erika's models and learning guides have been translated into Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish, and she has been quoted in Fortune and Training magazines. Her book, Growing Great Employees, is published by Penguin Portfolio.