Biography of the President and Director … Larry Cipolla

• Recognized internationally as one of the pioneers in the development of 360-degree feedback instruments
• Experienced in four key areas of intervention: Organizational Development; Designing and Developing performance based 360 degree surveys for personal and professional development; Individual Coaching; Creating Business Unit change strategies aligned with organizational goals
• Published since 1967
• Author of over 225 articles on leadership and management related themes
• Over 32 years experience in organizational and human resource development
• Developed and implemented over 285 feedback instruments for a wide range of clients around the world
• Former lecturer of English literature, leadership, and management related courses in the Graduate Schools of the Universities of Minnesota and St. Thomas
• Former supervisor at 3M Company where he developed and implemented a wide range of training programs that incorporated multi-rater feedback, behavioral modeling, and mathetics learning techniques
• Larry is a Hennepin County Master Gardener in Minnesota and works with adults and children. His Japanese Gardens have appeared on national television and garden magazines. He is frequently interviewed and speaks on a wide range of yard and garden topics, such as water, container, and vegatable gardening, Japanese, rain, and bog gardens.
• Larry is learning Spanish (slowly) and has written a children's book, Quiero ser Bombero.

Selected Papers Presented...

1. Administering the 360 Feedback Process in your Organization
2. 360 Feedback: Much more than a Performance Appraisal System
3. 360 Feedback: The Breakfast of Leaders and those Who want to be
4. Create the Performance Improvement Organization You Always Wanted
5. Creating Performance Based Training Programs with 360 Feedback
6. Do You have what it takes to be a Leader?
7. If 360 Feedback is so Popular, Why doesn't anyone Use it?
8. Implementing Organizational Change- one person at a time
9. Getting Started with Performance-based Feedback Process
10. Putting the Performance into your Performance Appraisal Process with 360 Feedback
11. Trends and Developments with 360 Feedback Instrumentation
12. Using 360 Feedback Instruments in ASEAN Countries
13. Using 360 Feedback to Match Individual Competencies with Organizational Competencies
14. Web-based software: Integrating people development, knowledge sharing, and life long learning applications
15. Integrating traditional and online programs

… at these Conferences

• Synergy Conference (Singapore, 92)
• Management and Training Conference (China, 93)
• World Productivity Assembly & HRD Conference (Singapore, 94 and 96)
• International Management Conference & Exhibition (Singapore, 95)
• International Federation of Training and Development Organizations (Malaysia, 1997)
• HRD Conference (India, 1998)
• American Management Association (USA, 1997)
• American Society for Training and Development (USA, 1995, 1997, 2000)
• Society for Human Resource Management (USA, 1997, 2000)
• International Quality & Productivity Center (USA, 1997)
• Global Business and Technology Association International Conference (Rome, 2002)

Other conferences and venues include those in Spain (93, 99, 02), Mexico (94, 95, 98), Ireland (96), Argentina (95), Australia and New Zealand (95), Indonesia (95, 96), Malaysia (93, 94, 95, 96), the United Kingdom (93, 94, 95, 96, 98), Portugal (99), France (99), Italy (99), Japan (00), Taiwan (00), Belgium (00), Korea (07).

Selected Articles on 360 degree multi-rater feedback in English

1. 360 Feedback and Performance Management
2. Develop your Competitive Edge with 360 Feedback (case study)
3. Develop your Sales Competency with 360 Feedback (case study)
4. Would you work for you?
5. Healthcare Executives look in the 360 mirror
6. How to develop Performance based Feedback Surveys
7. If 360 Feedback is so Popular, why doesn't anyone use it?
8. Increasing Customer Satisfaction with Micro and Macro Feedback (case study)
9. Introducing 360 feedback in your Organization
10. Make Performance Appraisals Count
11. Matching Individual Competencies to Organizational Needs
12. The Power of 360 degree Feedback
13. Upward Feedback for Management Development
14. Using 360 degree feedback in ASEAN Countries
15. Web-based Performance Management Systems: Continuous Feedback from Multiple Sources

Selected Articles on 360 degree multi-rater feedback in Spanish and Portuguese

• 360° Todo para ver
• Retroinformación 360°: Para mejorar el desempeño y la productividad
• Nota 6 para o senhor President
• Feedback ... à sua medida!