Jeanette Romkema

Jeanette Romkema is an expert intercultural facilitator whose practice demonstrates that everyone is seen, heard, and has value. She is adept at hosting meaningful and important dialogue, is comfortable holding tension and difference, and invites truth-telling and tough questions.

She is an Owner and Senior Partner with Global Learning Partners (GLP) who has worked with clients across the healthcare, social services, community development, civil society and higher education sectors. As an artist educator, she helps organizations gain clarity about how to become a learning-centered organization or community. Unique in her passion for heart learning, she delves deep into the values, culture and practices of people and organizations to strengthen their identity, mission, and purpose to achieve the change they seek.

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Jeanette brings 35 years of experience, expertise, and relationships with practitioners and colleagues who are thought leaders in learning-centered approaches to design and learning facilitation, always coaching and mentoring trainers and change agents along the way.

Global Learning Partners has seeded communities of practice around the globe who consistently set a high bar for learning-centered approaches in widely different contexts. Jeanette personally has extensive international experience: more than half of her clients are in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.