Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) April 27, 2005 — Alan Price has joined Interaction Associates as a Collaboration Consultant in its Cambridge, MA office. Price will apply his expertise in collaboration consulting and leadership development to help Fortune 500 clients build effective teams, strong leaders, and collaborative organizations.

Price comes to Interaction Associates after serving as a Director at INSPIRITAS Corporation (www.inspiritas.com), a consulting and training firm advancing the practice of leadership development. He is the author of Ready To Lead? A Story for Leaders and Their Mentors (Jossey-Bass, 2004).

Formerly, Mr. Price served as Director of the Global Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School (HBS). Working with distinguished faculty such as Professors John P. Kotter, Nitin Nohria, and Warren Bennis, the Initiative developed world-class tools and teaching materials. Mr. Price taught leadership cases in the executive education programs of HBS and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Mr. Price came to HBS from ThoughtBridge, a consulting firm specializing in negotiation strategy, labor-management relations and dispute resolution, where he was COO and CFO. He was instrumental in developing an automated system for delivering commercial mediation/arbitration services over the Internet.

Prior to ThoughtBridge, Mr. Price was a Senior Project Manager with Conflict Management Group, a non-profit organization developing dispute resolution mechanisms for international conflicts as well as inner city violence prevention. Mr. Price was a consultant for several years with Conflict Management, Inc.

He served as an Infantry Lieutenant in the U.S. Army National Guard. Mr. Price has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Earlham College. In addition to writing and consulting, Mr. Price is a popular public speaker who has delivered numerous addresses on the global state of leadership and leadership development.

Interaction Associates, Inc. is a 36-year-old leader in learning and performance improvement. The firm helps clients build the needed collaborative capability to produce extraordinary results, improve critical business processes, and create and maintain trusting and productive work relationships. More information about Interaction Associates is available on the company’s website at www.interactionassociates.com.