David Gurteen Biography Speaker, writer and conversational host

David Gurteen is a speaker, writer, and conversational host.

He specializes in knowledge management, organizational learning, and conversational leadership. He delivers keynote talks, designs and facilitates Knowledge Cafés, and conducts workshops worldwide.

He is best known as the creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Café – a versatile conversational process to bring a group of people together to learn from each other, share experiences, and make better sense of a rapidly changing, complex, less predictable world to improve decision making and to innovate.

For more than two decades, he has facilitated hundreds of Knowledge Cafés and workshops in over 30 countries worldwide.

He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community – a global network of more than 22,000 people in over 160 countries. He has published his regular monthly Knowledge-Letter for over 20 years.

David is the curator of the Gurteen Knowledge website, which serves as a comprehensive resource for book reviews, articles, people profiles, event calendars, inspirational quotations, an integral blog, and much more on topics such as knowledge management, informal learning, creativity, and innovation.

He is the editor of the book Leading Issues in Social Knowledge Management, published by Academic Publishing International. In June 2010, David won the Ark Group’s lifetime achievement award for services to Knowledge Management.

He is currently writing an online book (a blook) on Conversational Leadership.

He holds a degree in Physics and began his career as a computer-aided design engineer at British Aerospace. Later, he worked as a software development manager at Prime Computer, designing and implementing early networking and file-sharing systems. He then moved on to Lotus Development, where he served as the European Software Development Manager, overseeing the localization of Lotus 1-2-3 (an early spreadsheet application) into multiple languages.

He reached the pinnacle of his corporate career as the International Czar for Lotus Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this role, he was accountable for ensuring that all software products were designed to cater to the international market. In 1993, he departed from Lotus and ventured out as an independent consultant and facilitator.

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