ICCE Training of Trainers, Chicago, Illinois

Scott D. Miller, PhD, is a co-founder of the Center for Clinical Excellence, an international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavior health. Dr. Miller conducts workshops and training in the United States and abroad, helping hundreds of agencies and organizations, both public and private, to achieve superior results. He is one of a handful of "invited faculty" whose work, thinking, and research is featured at the prestigious "Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference." His humorous and engaging presentation style and command of the research literature consistently inspires practitioners, administrators, and policy makers to make effective changes in service delivery.

Scott is the author of numerous articles and co-author of Working with the Problem Drinker: A Solution Focused Approach (with Insoo Berg [Norton, 1992]), The "Miracle" Method: A Radically New Approach to Problem Drinking (with Insoo Kim Berg [Norton, 1995]), Finding the Adult Within: A Solution-Focused Self-Help Guide (with Barbara McFarland [Brief Therapy Center Press, 1995]), Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Foundations, Applications, and Research (with Mark Hubble and Barry Duncan [Jossey-Bass, 1996]), Escape from Babel: Toward a Unifying Language for Psychotherapy Practice (with Barry Duncan and Mark Hubble [Norton, 1997]), Psychotherapy with Impossible Cases: Efficient Treatment of Therapy Veterans (with Barry Duncan and Mark Hubble [Norton, 1997]), The Heart and Soul of Change (with Mark Hubble and Barry Duncan [APA Press, 1999] and Bruce Wampold [2nd Edition, 2009]), The Heroic Client: A Revolutionary Way to Improve Effectiveness through Client-Directed, Outcome-Informed Therapy (with Barry Duncan [Jossey-Bass, 2000], and Jacqueline Sparks [Revised, 2004]), and the forthcoming Achieving Clinical Excellence: Lessons from the Fields Most Effective Practitioners.

Rob Axsen, BA (Hon.) has over 25 years experience as a clinical supervisor and consultant, and is also an accomplished addictions trainer and a Clinical Leader for implementation of CDOI practice. He has consulted internationally with large and small agencies, helping implement CDOI practice into all levels of organizations. Rob is known for his ability to offer practice-oriented information in an experiential format, encouraging training participants to quickly integrate new material into their current practice.

Cynthia Maeschalck has worked as a clinical supervisor of Addiction Services since 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Cynthia supervises an urban addiction counselling team in Vancouver and is currently co-leading an initiative implementing CDOI as part of the outcome measurement system for Addiction Services programs in Vancouver. She has a particular expertise in implementing CDOI practice in agencies, developing a "CDOI culture" in the workplace and clinical supervision of CDOI practice.

Jason Seidel, Psy.D.is a Senior Associate and Advisory Board member of the ICCE. He works as a psychologist in private practice in Denver, Colorado, and has been involved with client-directed, outcome-informed work for 8 years, formally tracking and reporting his own therapy outcomes for 5 years. Jason is an acclaimed workshop presenter and trains clinicians and administrators in the collection, analysis, and reporting of outcome data, and in effective business and marketing strategies. In the past, he has served as an Associate at the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, and a presenter at the international Heart and Soul of Change conference. He authored and presented the highly-rated Business of Private Practice workshops, and currently volunteers as Advisor to the Board of Directors for Threshold Passages, Inc., a mentoring organization for teenage boys.

Bruce E. Wampold, Ph.D., ABPP, who was trained in mathematics (BA, University of Washington) before earning his doctorate in Counseling Psychology (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 12, 17, 29, 45) and a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Currently his work involves understanding counseling and psychotherapy from empirical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. His analysis of empirical evidence, which has led to the development of a contextual model from which to understand the benefits of counseling and psychotherapy, is found in The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, methods, and findings (2001, Erlbaum and Associates). He is the author of over 100 books, chapters, and articles related to counseling, psychotherapy, statistics, and research methods and is the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research Award from the American Psychological Association.

Bob Bertolino is an associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Counselling in the School of Health Professions at Marysville University in St Louis County Missouri where he teaches courses in couples and family therapy, counseling theories, substance abuse and internship. Bob also provides consulting, training and clinical oversight services at Youth in Need (YIN) Inc. in St Charles Missouri which he has done for many years. His research and academic interest are in effective processes and practices that are collaborative, strengths-based and improve outcomes. His primary focus is on issues that affect children, adolescents and families. He has authored and co-authored a large number of books. His latest books include Strengths-Based Engagement and Practice: Creating Effective Helping Relationships. Boston, MA Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Education, The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-Based Therapies (2009) with Michael Kierner and Ryan Patterson and Change-Oriented Therapy with Adolescents and Young Adults (2003). He has co-authored numerous therapy books with Bill O'Hanlon their most recent being Collaborative, Competency-Based Counseling and Therapy (2002). An internationally known speaker and presenter he presents at conferences and gives workshops in the US and around the world.

As Chief Technical Officer of the ICCE Enda's responsibilities are to define the ICCE technology roadmap ensuring that the features of the community are aligned to requirements of its members and to best practices in online community platforms.

Enda's technology background is in software engineering and computational linguistics and he a highly experienced enterprise architect. With 10 years experience in industries ranging from automotive to biotechnology and healthcare he was responsible for some of the first large scale Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects in a number of these organisations. With expertise and experience in developing and implementing technology solutions to support change management and quality initiatives in organisations Enda holds industry qualifications in Lean/Six Sigma process improvement methodologies.

An established blogger and commentator in the Health2.0 community he is also deeply engaged in the debate on the direction of semantic web technologies, enterprise software and business intelligence in healthcare environments.