New Globonder - Angela Montgomery

Globonder Angela Montgomery has built an extraordinary multi-phased career of theater, education and training, writing and translation. Along the way, her content focus has shifted from the arts to transformational management.

Angela writes, edits and researches for the Sechel Intelligent Management project created by her husband Dr. Domenico Lepore, with whom she set up a management consultancy firm in Italy in 1996. The Sechel project promotes a science-based paradigm of thinking and action for organizations and their leaders. It is a further development of The Decalogue™ methodology.

Besides her B.A. (Hons.) in English (First Class) and M.A. in English (with distinction), both from Queen Mary College, London University, Angela earned a Ph.D. in English from Birkbeck College, London University. Her doctorate examined relations between modern physics and the literature of Samuel Beckett, backed up by hitherto unpublished manuscript material from the Beckett archives. During the Samuel Beckett Centenary Year (2006) she was the Curator of The Beckett Project, screenings and talks, sponsored by the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana in Milan.

Angela started her career by training and working in professional theater. She earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Acting from the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Her acting engagements ranged from the Fringe to the London West End, and she directed several plays by Samuel Beckett. Working in theater was a formative experience in living a life outside conventional boundaries. Meeting her husband, Domenico, was the beginning of a life above and beyond anything she had ever imagined.

In 1989 she moved to Italy to join Domenico, where she taught for the University of Salerno, Open University, European Business School, and British Council. She delivered many in-company English courses and services for managers in commercial companies in Milan.

In 1996, Angela co-founded, with Dr. Lepore, and managed Methods for Systems Thinking (MST), a management consultancy in quality and systems thinking. Dealing with the day to day of owning a business proved to be liberating and inspiring. Over the next few years, she translated from Italian all the training material and produced and edited MST’s English language material.

Angela has lived on London, Salerno, New York where her husband co-founded Symmetry Holdings Inc. and Toronto. She is currently developing the content of a new website, www.intelligentmanagement.ws, and editing the second book on The Decalogue methodology. The first Decalogue book published in 1999 has been translated into several languages and is recommended reading for many universities.

Angela’s first novel about love and corruption in Italy, will be published in early 2010 thanks to an initiative for new writers through www.youwriteon.com funded by the Arts Council of England. Set in the scandal-ridden Milan of the early 1990s, it is a story about life choices and falling in love. She wrote it to speak out about the insidious daily compromises that society, in particular, contemporary Italy, can create, and to celebrate our constant ability to choose a better way. She hopes readers will find the book entertaining, moving and inspiring.

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New Globonder - Angela Montgomery