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Keepers of the Castle
Diane Yarborough
Diane Yarborough
Diane Yarborough
Diane is the President of Castaway & Company, that brings a renewed focus on culture architecture and organzational design. She and her team facilitate The Dream Discovery Workshop where you learn The Castle Process for Designing Your Life and Career.
John Hovell
Diane Yarborough
Diane Yarborough
John Hovell is the CEO and co-founder of STRATactical. He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in OD/KM strategies and their application to current organizational challenges.
John facilitates Influencing for Results in Organizations - another product from our founder Walt.
Joep de Jong
Diane Yarborough
Joep de Jong
Joep C. de Jong is Founder of JLS International (JLS), a network organization that offers consultancy, facilitation and support in the areas of leadership, change management, personal development, coaching and organizational development (OD) for organizations like the UN’s World Food Program, the European Space Agency and all sized non- profit organizations.
Inspiration - Founder
Walt Hopkins, Ph.D.
Walt has been a professional member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science since 1983. For the 8th edition of the Reading Book for Human Relations Training, published by NTL Institute, Walt contributed chapters on diversity, journaling, and Appreciative Inquiry. For the NTL series Keys to Group Effectiveness, Walt contributed the booklet on Journaling.
He has a B.A. from the College of Wooster, an M.Litt. from the University of Edinburgh, a Ph.D. from Union Graduate School, and two diplomas from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.
Walt was born in the USA but has lived in Europe since 1982. He became a British citizen in 2002. Walt studied in Scotland for two years in the sixties and returned to Scotland in 1997 after living in London for 15 years. He has taught in high schools, alternative colleges, universities, a race-and-sex-desegregation project, government, business, and industry.
Walt’s mission is to encourage people to do more of what they do best; when Walt is doing what he does best, people around him begin changing their lives.
"I like the wonderful double image of castles. A castle is fantastic, dream-like, soaring upward AND a castle is grounded on rock, solid as forever. That's why I see castles as a visual symbol of one of the wisest things I've ever said: A goal is a dream taken seriously."