Ms.
Alex Bennet, internationally recognized as an expert in knowledge management
and an agent for organizational change, is co-founder of the Mountain Quest
Institute, a research and retreat center nestled in the Allegheny Mountains
focused on achieving growth and understanding through quests for knowledge,
consciousness and meaning. Alex is the former co-chair of the Federal KM
Working Group and served as the first Chief Knowledge Officer for the
Department of the Navy, as well as Deputy Chief Information Officer for
Enterprise Integration. Prior to that position, she was Acquisition Reform
Executive for the Department of the Navy. She has previously held government
positions in the Program Executive Officer for Undersea Warfare, the Internal
Revenue Service, the Federal Housing Administration and the Bureau of Medicine.
Alex has published extensively in the KM field, including articles,
virtual toolkits and books. Her newest book, co-authored with her partner and
spouse, is Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent
Complex Adaptive System. Among her many awards and honors, Ms. Bennet is
the recipient of the Department of the Navy Distinguished and Superior Public
Service Awards, the National Performance Review Hammer Award from the Vice
President, and the National Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Task
Force Award for distinguished service and exemplary leadership. She was named
by Federal Computer Week as a member of the Federal 100 for the year
2002. Ms. Bennet is a Delta Epsilon Sigma and a Golden Key National Honor
Society graduate with degrees in Management for Organizational Effectiveness,
Human Development, Information Systems and Knowledge Organizations, English and
Marketing; and she holds graduate certificates in Total Quality Management,
System Dynamics and Defense Acquisition Management.
