Albert Linderman

Email: albert@dendros.com

Albert Linderman, Ph.D., CEO of Sagis Corporation; cultural anthropologist guiding organization and community change, and servant leader of high-profile collaborations, including city-wide multi-sectoral collaborations of regular citizens, government, business, nonprofit, and faith communities to solve complex community issues. He currently leads the management team of Passaic County, New Jersey’s Department of Human Services, while guiding a county-wide needs assessment, with an eye to the establishment of a system’s-guided Collective Impact to improve quality of life in the County. He has previously guided collective impact initiatives in communities large and small in South Dakota and Minnesota. He also has guided leadership transitions for several major Minnesota health care organizations as well as the Alliance of Community Health Plans in Washington, D.C. Albert is an experienced practitioner of a number of disciplines and evidence-based methodologies including MIT’s System Dynamics, Collective Impact, Sense-Making Methodology, and Presencing. He has served over 100 companies, academic, and religious institutions, large and small as a consultant, both domestically and internationally. Albert also has a breadth of experience in providing mentoring and guidance to more than 200 emerging leaders; including dozens of social entrepreneurs as well as emerging leaders from all sectors of community life. He is author of numerous articles from publications as diverse as Purchasing Today, Human Resource Development International, the Journal of Nursing, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, and an upcoming article for System Dynamics Review, and is author of a book on human experience, Why the World Around You Isn’t as it Appears (Lindisfarne Books, 2012). Albert grew up in Birmingham, Alabama during the civil rights movement and is a first-generation immigrant, both of which has shaped the trajectory of his career. He currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Albert also worked with the DHH communities nationally for more than 25 years as a community organizer, interpreter, and executive director of two nonprofits. His 1997 anthropology PhD dissertation, The Deaf Story: Themes of Culture and Coping examined the lived experience of many DHH informants.