Dr Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart, PhD, is a professional conversationalist and managing director of a new enterprise in Hong Kong
called MultiMind Solutions. This group facilitate communication processes for corporate, government, health and
community organisations which ensure that people contribute creatively, collectively and wholeheartedly to the
solution of complex issues.
He has also had extensive experience in coaching groups on skills such as listening with attention, speaking to
empower the listener, asking questions appropriate to the context and using one’s imagination in relating with
others. Plus the skill of doing ‘small talk’ naturally and well.
Alan’s forte is in approaches which promote lively, respectful and productive conversation. He knows that
principles which promote self organization, together with the physical arrangements of meetings, change the
way in which people in any group may interact.
Alan is a very experienced host of Conversation Cafes www.theworldcafe.com and has a close association with
the founders of this approach; he has been named a ‘World Café Pioneer.’
Recently he wrote a review of the new book on ‘The World Café – Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations
That Matter.’
He is also a highly skilled facilitator of Open Space Technology www.openspaceworld.org and is a founder
member of the Open Space Institute of Australia.
Examples of Alan’s work and his associated writings can be seen at and via www.theworldcafe.
com/storyconversing.html
Alan travels extensively offering facilitation, keynote speeches, workshops & coaching, mainly around Asia and in
Australia, the USA and Europe. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in California, a World
Bank Consultant in Indonesia and recently had an appointment as Adjunct Professor at Union Institute and
University in Ohio, USA.
He came to live in Hong Kong early last year and intends to stay ‘quite a while.’
Alan Stewart, PhD, is a professional conversationalist and managing director of a new enterprise in Hong Kong
called MultiMind Solutions. This group facilitate communication processes for corporate, government, health and
community organisations which ensure that people contribute creatively, collectively and wholeheartedly to the
solution of complex issues.
He has also had extensive experience in coaching groups on skills such as listening with attention, speaking to
empower the listener, asking questions appropriate to the context and using one’s imagination in relating with
others. Plus the skill of doing ‘small talk’ naturally and well.
Alan’s forte is in approaches which promote lively, respectful and productive conversation. He knows that
principles which promote self organization, together with the physical arrangements of meetings, change the
way in which people in any group may interact.
Alan is a very experienced host of Conversation Cafes www.theworldcafe.com and has a close association with
the founders of this approach; he has been named a ‘World Café Pioneer.’
Recently he wrote a review of the new book on ‘The World Café – Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations
That Matter.’
He is also a highly skilled facilitator of Open Space Technology www.openspaceworld.org and is a founder
member of the Open Space Institute of Australia.
Examples of Alan’s work and his associated writings can be seen at and via www.theworldcafe.
com/storyconversing.html
Alan travels extensively offering facilitation, keynote speeches, workshops & coaching, mainly around Asia and in
Australia, the USA and Europe. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in California, a World
Bank Consultant in Indonesia and recently had an appointment as Adjunct Professor at Union Institute and
University in Ohio, USA.
He came to live in Hong Kong early last year and intends to stay ‘quite a while.’