Barbara F. Hanna, Principal
Facilitator / Trainer

Barbara Hanna received her bachelor's degree from New College in Sarasota, Florida where she established an American Montessori preschool. In Ithaca New York she founded a 24-hour crisis intervention center before moving on to earn her master’s degree in public administration from Cornell University's Graduate School of Business. Barbara served as an assistant administrator for a rural hospital near Ithaca, New York for four years. After moving to California she was elected mayor of the City of Banning. She created Riverside, California’s Orange Blossom Festival while employed by the City’s Redevelopment Department. She is currently Mayor Pro-Tem of the Banning City Council.

In 2001 Barbara was selected to attend the Dalar International Consultancy’s Genuine Contact^© program’s Trainer of Trainers course in Raleigh, North Carolina. Birgitt Williams, the originator of the Genuine Contact^© program, personally trained and certified Barbara. Barbara is also trained in The Institute of Cultural Affairs’ Technology of Participation (ToP^®) facilitation methods. Both approaches to group facilitation have the underpinning value of true participation and involvement.

Edward C. Ball, Associate

Edward C. Ball received a BA in Business Administration from California State University at Long Beach. He received his MA in Speech Communication with an emphasis in Organizational Communication from Long Beach.

Ed was a university administrator from 1970 to 1991 when he left to work with Walker Parking Consultants and Engineers. He returned to university administration in 1997 and retired from Cal State Northridge in 2000. He organized all of the public and private parking in downtown Riverside, California under one management team for the first three Orange Blossom Festivals.

Birgitt Williams trained and certified Ed as a "Trainer of Trainers" in the Genuine Contact^© program which includes Open Space Technology and Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution. He is also trained in the Technology of Participation (ToP^®) facilitation methods.

Ed Ball and Barbara Hanna are partners in marriage as well as in Hanna & Associates.