Consultants

Bruce Karney founded KM-Experts in 2005 after spending more than 15 years in KM, education, marketing, and process engineering at Hewlett-Packard.  He was one of the pioneers of KM at HP, beginning his KM career work 1994.  HP is one of the most successful knowledge creating companies in the world, and has frequently been named one of the 20 "Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises" in the annual survey conducted by the Know Network.

Bruce's passion is the human side of knowledge management, and helping organizations improve the productivity of their knowledge workers by making sure that systems, culture, processes, and technology are all aligned to support the natural desire of knowledge workers to collaborate and learn.

Bruce earned his BS in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford and his MS in Management Science from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is located in Silicon Valley.

People who have worked with Bruce are often happy to offer their public endorsement.  Here are four examples from his LinkedIn profile:

• “Bruce brought an unusual combination of creativity and disciplined execution to his KM work. Always willing to experiment with new ideas, but always careful about trying to monitor and measure actual outcomes, and always generous about sharing what he learned (both good and bad).” Chuck Sieloff, retired Chief Knowledge Officer of Hewlett-Packard (USA)
• “I have known Bruce for over 20 years. He's one of the most gifted people I know. He has an unusual combination of mathematical, verbal and interpersonal skills, and is a first-rate thinker. I recommend him highly!” Scott Dailey, owner of Scott Dailey Creative (USA)
• “Having interacted with Bruce over the net, I can say that his passion for KM and Knowledge Sharing really came out strongly on the various forums at HP. He really reaches out across the organizational structures and connects with people to benefit his clients internally!” Gautam Ghosh, Dell Computers (India)
• “Without Bruce's hard work and brilliant ideas our KM program would certainly not evolve and improve the way it did. His ability in analyzing every aspect always impressed me and brought new light in many issues we faced over time. I sought his help and advice in many tasks and enjoyed working with him in the past 5 years.” Gita Haghi, Hewlett-Packard Consulting (Austria)

Chuck Sieloff has more than 25 years of management experience at Hewlett-Packard, mostly in a variety of Information Technology roles. He managed pioneering efforts in business process re-engineering, large-scale intranet deployment, and the creation of an automated common operating environment for more than 100,000 PC users. He also provided strategic direction and thought leadership for internal programs dealing with technology strategy, change management, and knowledge management.

Chuck's work as an innovator and "idea practitioner" was featured in the recent book by Tom Davenport and Larry Prusak, What's the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).

In 1999, Chuck retired from HP and became a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future, focusing on emerging technologies, innovation in large organizations, and the future of R&D.

Chuck has a B.A. from Wesleyan University (Connecticut), as well as M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in European history from Stanford University. He has published articles on a variety of topics, including IT strategy, knowledge management, scenario planning, and organizational innovation.  Chuck's LinkedIn profile contains additional information about his background.

Peggy Parskey has over 25 years experience in driving strategic change to improve organizational and individual performance. She draws upon varied disciplines including project management, management of change, human performance improvement and knowledge management to set program goals, define success measures and develop tactical plans. Her unique combination of strategic thinking and analytical skills enable her to design change efforts that are aligned with the organization’s goals and realize significant improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and value.

Peggy’s focus and passion over the past several years has been in the field of measurement and evaluation for workplace learning solutions at Hewlett-Packard Company. In this role, she led the development and implementation of strategies, processes, systems and tools to grow HP’s organizational maturity in training measurement and evaluation. In conjunction with her evaluation efforts, Peggy project managed the development and implementation of leading edge human performance improvement processes to move the workplace learning function beyond training to a performance improvement orientation. Previous to this role, Peggy co-launched HP Consulting’s award-winning knowledge management global initiative.

Peggy holds a BS in Mathematics from Simmons College and Masters Degrees in Statistics and Business Administration from the University of Chicago.  You can read more about her background on her LinkedIn profile.

Stephanie Barnes has more than twelve years successful experience practicing knowledge management and accounting in the High Tech, Health Care, and Public Accounting industries.  Her areas of specialization are strategy development and execution, change management, project management, and team development.

Stephanie holds a BBA in Accounting from Brock University, an MBA in Information Systems from McMaster University, and is Masters Certified in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).  Located in Ontario, Canada, Stephanie holds dual Canadian-UK citizenship. 

Here are two endorsements on her LinkedIn profile from people who have worked with her:

• “Stephanie was both mentor & colleague to whom I owe a great deal of learning while working in the KM team. Her passion for KM was an inspiration to me. As manager she was tough yet fair; qualities that I believe organizations must have in their employees to be successful. I endorse her in any organization that is willing to look to the future & the people & the knowledge they have in their organization - & do something with it!” Michelle Nowakowski (Australia)
• “I had the opportunity to have Stephanie as internal customer for several projects and enjoyed very much working with her. Her professionalism, dedication and drive were an asset to my projects and taught me a lot of project management in an international environment.”  Nicolas Bouillon (Belgium)