CAMBRIDGE, MA - April 25, 2007 - The leading innovator in leadership development, collaboration training, and performance improvement solutions - Interaction Associates (IA) - is partnering with the Bali Institute for Global Renewal to help advance global leadership at the Institute's annual event, "AWAKENING GLOBAL ACTION: Leadership, Indigenous Wisdom and Dialogue for a Transforming World."

The Bali Institute's annual conference - "AWAKENING GLOBAL ACTION: Leadership, Indigenous Wisdom and Dialogue for a Transforming World" - runs from July 31st to August 7th 2007 in Ubud, Bali. The annual conference draws attendees from more than 40 countries for cutting edge training in leadership, facilitation, and deep listening training.

"IA's involvement with the Bali Institute exemplifies our company's objective to help promote global peace and understanding," said Linda Dunkel, President and CEO of Interaction Associates. "Our core competency - delivering propriety learning programs and tools to foster genuine and strategic collaboration - is enormously important in meeting the needs of an organization looking to foster global connection, and develop world leaders," according to Dunkel.

The Bali Institute is the first organization of its type designed to provide skill building aimed at empowering individuals, groups, and organizations in their quest to make a difference in the world. The Institute plans to build a center for global learning in Ubud and IA plans to run practical workshops to help advance the institute's mission and help people build understanding, reach agreement, and collaborate successfully on a global scale.

Learn more about "AWAKENING GLOBAL ACTION: Leadership, Indigenous Wisdom and Dialogue for a Transforming World" at www.baliinstitute.org/aga.html.

About Interaction Associates
Interaction Associates, Inc. is a leading innovator in learning, leadership development, collaboration and performance improvement solutions for Fortune 1000 companies. The firm serves global clients and has offices in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco. For nearly 40 years, IA has helped clients build collaborative capability to produce extraordinary results, improve critical business processes, and create and maintain productive work relationships. Interaction Associates' work benefits hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world.

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Interaction Associates

Interaction Associates

Interaction Associates, Inc. (IA) is an employee-owned firm with extensive experience innovating new directions in corporate social responsibility. For nearly 40 years, IA has been a leading provider of solutions that help Fortune 1000 clients meet their most daunting challenges — from improving employee performance to optimizing business solutions, navigating change, developing high potential leaders, and fostering genuine and strategic collaboration across an organization. IA broke new ground in 1993 when it funded a nonprofit institute — the Interaction Institute for Social Change —which has become a premier designer & facilitator of large-scale, multi-stakeholder social change efforts. The institute’s work has benefited hundreds of organizations and thousands of people around the world. More information on the institute is at: www.interactioninstitute.org IA’s president and CEO, Linda Dunkel, was selected as one of America’s Best Bosses in 2006, an honor bestowed on just 18 people nationally by the workplace practices clearinghouse, Winning Workplaces, to recognize the most innovative and inspirational leaders of midsize companies. More information on that is available at: www.interactionassociates.com/BestBosses.cfm IA has offices in Cambridge, MA and San Francisco. More information is at: www.interactionassociates.com.

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