Find out more about the GKI and its founder, Melissa Peet, Ph.D.
Our Mission
Enable people to discover and build upon their vast hidden sources of strength, intelligence, and purpose, and to use these resources to transform their relationships, schools, workplaces and communties.
Our Vision
Millions of people who can facilitate the highest and best in one another, and use their knowledge to create positive change.
Our Values
Creating a new foundation - the knowledge needed to change the world cannot come from the same knowledge system(s) that created our current mess. We need a different approach;
Starting from strength - there is a vast, hidden wholeness and intelligence that lives within all people, groups and organizations. When we tap into this wholeness, we can access resources that have previously been lost, hidden and frozen
Letting the need be great - embracing great need with courage and curiosity always generates extraordinary results. We embrace complexity and difficulty.
Centering the right people - The knowledge needed to create change must come from those who need and seek change the most; it cannot be generated from the outside
Telling the truth even when its hard - without the truth, nothing, absolutely nothing, is possible. Thus, we honor the need to speak difficult truths as gently as possible.
Specializing in the wholly impossible - the more complex the problem, the more elegant, unexpected and intelligent the solutions will be – it all depends on how we hold it!
Remembering that curiosity (the holiness of not-knowing), is at the heart of all learning, change and transformation; without it, nothing can change
Creating positive change is something many wish to do, but few can truly put into practice. Melissa Peet is one of the few. With the right tools and methods, she believes everyone can make a difference using their unique gifts or “super powers.”
Dr. Peet is the founder of the GKI and until recently, was the Director of Integrative Learning and Knowledge Management at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
She creates tools and methods that help people and organizations discover the vast reservoir of purpose, strength and intelligence they already possess, but exists outside of their conscious awareness. Several of these methods – Generative Knowledge Dialogue, Generative Coaching, and the Integrative Knowledge Portfolio Process, are being used to develop integrative and lifelong learners, leaders and change agents in a wide range of fields, disciplines and professions.
Her coaching, learning, and assessment methods have been adopted by colleges, universities, and professional schools throughout the US and Europe, educating students in Liberal Arts, Natural and Life Sciences, as well as Business, Public Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Social Work, Engineering, Nursing, and Education schools.
Dr. Peet also works with non-profit and business organizations to create succession planning and talent management strategies that leverage the vast reservoir of hidden knowledge, skills and intelligence that exists within their employees, clients and communities.
Recent Research Articles
(Dr. Peet's book is forthcoming)
Peet, M. R. (2015). Transformative students’ beliefs: Developing employability skills and generative identities through the Integrative Knowledge Portfolio Process. Journal of Transformative Learning, 3(2), 15-36.
Peet, M. (2012). Moving from crisis to opportunity: Leadership transitions, tacit knowledge, sharing and organizational generativity. Journal of Knowledge Management, 16(1), 45-60.
Peet, M., et.a. (2011). Fostering Integrative Knowledge Through ePortfolios. International Journal of ePortfolio, 1(1), 11-31.
Peet, M., Walsh, K., Sober, S. & Rawak, C. (2010). Generative knowledge interviewing: A method for tacit knowledge transfer and talent management at the University of Michigan. The International Journal of Educational Advancement, 10, 71-75.
Peet, M. (2009). The integrative knowledge portfolio process: A program guide for educating reflective practitioners and lifelong learners. MedEdPORTAL, Retrieved from: https://www.mededportal.org /publication/7892
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