Dr. Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan
Dr. Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan is the Resident Mad
Scientist at Workshops
by Thiagi, Inc., an organization with the
mission of helping people improve their performance effectively
and enjoyably. Thiagi also conducts online
workshops within the
LearningTimes Network.
Thiagi's long-term
clients include AT&T, Arthur Andersen,
Bank of Montreal, Cadence Design Systems, Chevron, IBM, Intel,
Intelsat, United Airlines, and Liberty Mutual. On a short-term
basis, Thiagi has worked with more than 50 different organizations
in high-tech, financial services, and management consulting areas.
For these clients, Thiagi has consulted and conducted training
in such areas as rightsizing, diversity, creativity, teamwork,
customer satisfaction, human performance technology, and organizational
learning.
Thiagi has
published 40 books, 120 games and simulations, and more than
200 articles.
He wrote the definitive chapters on simulations
and games for ISPI's Handbook of Human Performance Technology,
ASTD's Training & Development Handbook, and the American Management
Association's Human Resources Management and Development Handbook.
Thiagi currently
writes a monthly online newsletter, Play for Performance. This
newsletter,
now in its third year, features Thiagi's
training games and other creative interventions that deliver results
quickly and effectively. He served as the editor of NSPI Journal and Performance & Improvement for more than 10 years. He currently
edits the simulation/game section in Sage Publication's journal,
Simulation & Gaming. He is also a contributing editor of the
monthly journal, Educational Technology.
Thiagi has
made hundreds of presentations and keynote speeches at professional
conferences.
At ISPI, Thiagi holds the "records" for
making the most presentations, conducting the most preconference
workshops, and being invited to make the most Encore presentations.
Thiagi is also a regular presenter at Lakewood's TRAINING Conferences
and the annual conferences of American Society for Training and
Development (ASTD) and North American Simulation and Gaming Association
(NASAGA).
Thiagi has been the president of the North American Simulation
and Gaming Associating (NASAGA), International Society for Performance
Improvement (ISPI), and Association for Special Education Technology
(ASET). He has received 17 different awards and Presidential Citations
from ISPI, including the society's highest award, Honorary
Life Member. He also received an Honorary Life Member award from NASAGA
as well as its highest award, Ifill-Raynolds Award.
Internationally recognized as an expert in multinational collaboration
and active learning in organizations, Thiagi has lived in three
different countries and has consulted in 21 others.
