Steve Barth consults to international government, NGO, academic and corporate clients. Recent work focuses on organizational learning and knowledge management strategies in economic development and peace and security.

In particular, Steve focuses on the dynamic relationships between individual knowledge workers and their peers, teams, organizations and communities. He applies insights into learning, innovation, networks and sense-making to international security, economic development, competitive intelligence and other fields. His work emphasizes cultural context by blending the anthropological, sociological and technological cutting-edge of KM with evolved traditions of learning, communications, decision-making and effective action. These traditions include evocative artifacts and storytelling, narrative and expository journalism, publications and conferences, facilitation of intuitive expertise, emotional and political intelligence, leadership and citizenship, etc.

An award-winning journalist for more than 25 years, Steve has published hundreds of articles on KM, business strategy, information technology and other topics. Steve was a founding editor of Knowledge Management, editor/publisher of destinationKM.com, a columnist for
KMWorld, editorial director for the IBM Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity and senior editor of World Trade magazine. He directed development or redesign of publications such as Emergence: Complexity and Organisation; Asia Pacific Economic Review; US-China Business; and US Japan Business Review.

Recent articles or book chapters include “The Tao of Disruptive Innovation" with David Snowden; Intuition’s Role in Making Decisions" with Richard Marrs, and “The Role of Typographic Design in Effective Content Delivery.”

Steve was a 2002 Visiting Scholar to Harvard University’s Learning Innovations Lab, with a degree in English Literature from the University of California (Santa Barbara, 1982).