Welcome to Explanation Age LLC
Developing Human Capital in the Knowledge-Driven Enterprise – Starting From WHY

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The Goal of Knowledge & Innovation Management

Learning S-Curve
Organizations today understand that they are either becoming Thought Leaders, or they are becoming obsolete.

Continuous Improvement in the knowledge-driven enterprise requires going beyond the old 1-dimensional view of organizational learning (novice-to-expert).

Explanation Age Leadership Methods are based on models of learning that produce Thought Leaders, not just Experts.

Benefits of Explanation Age™ Methods

  • Strategic Decisions – supports sense-making, not box-checking
  • Transparency – provides access to thought process and reasons
  • Collaborative – facilitates collaboration and reduces groupthink
  • Conflict Resolution – provides shared framework and language
  • Ethics – requires balancing control with compliance and respect
  • Innovation – provides proper questioning patterns for ideation
  • Education – promotes sensemaking and replaces Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Proficiency – transforms operations from simplicity to elegance

Presentations and Consulting / Workshops

For Business Leaders
  • Learner-Leadership: Leading through Collaborative Organizational Learning
  • The Learning "S-Curve": Designing Organizations for Thought Leadership
  • Powerful Questions: Putting the Framework-Question Theory into Action
  • Structured Thinking: Careful the Structure You Choose To Think From
  • Learning Organizations: Moving From Buzzword To Business Methodology
  • Performance Improvement: Transforming Operations from Simplicity to Elegance
  • Decision Transparency: Collaborative Decision Making with Transparency
For Education Leaders
  • Designing Education - Not Instruction: How the Knowledge Economy has outdated ADDIE and Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Questioning Skills: Why Creativity and Critical Thinking are Not Enough
  • The Tyranny of the Testers: Why the Models are More Important than the Measurements
  • Quad-Loop Learning: Why "Double-Loop" Learning Models Don't Add Up
For Technology Leaders
  • Enough Information: The Information Age is Not Sustainable
  • Social Tools for WHY: Catching Up to the Tools for Who, What, Where, and When

Story Thinking

Transforming Organizations for
the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Introduction to Story Thinking (20 min)
Story Thinking Cycle
Story Thinking Cycle ™
​"Storytelling is based on a sensemaking pattern for how we should talk—but Story Thinking is based on this pattern for how we should work."​

The Explanation Age

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  • “An iconoclast’s blueprint for a new era of innovation.” – Kirkus Reviews
  • Four Stars! “The Explanation Age presents a perspective on learning and reasoning that may indeed be a breakthrough.”  – Barry Silverstein for ForeWord Clarion Reviews
  • “Worth the effort to understand the importance of what Dr. Lewis is saying.” – Henry Holtzman for Inland Empire Business Journal​
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