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Gwendolyn Galsworth, Ph.D., is president and founder of Visual Thinking, Inc. and an author, researcher, teacher, consultant, publisher and thought leader in the field of "visuality" in the workplace. Her books, which have won multiple Shingo Prize awards in the Research and Professional Publication category, focus on conceptualizing and codifying workplace visuality into a single framework called the "visual workplace". She was one of the ten original members of the Productivity Inc. team assembled by Norman Bodek in the early 1980s to establish that company as the premier resource for books and intelligence from Japan that documented and explained what was then called The Japanese Manufacturing Miracle, and is now widely known as the Toyota Production System. Today, she continues to consult, teach, and produce books, videos and webinars in her field. She is a frequent keynote speaker on the business improvement conference circuit, and also hosts a weekly web-based radio show called The Visual Workplace, with over 70,000 listeners monthly. ==Early life and education== Galsworth was born in upper New York State to Russian mother Geraldine and Swiss father Donato Galsworth, she graduated from Long Branch Senior High school, and four years later graduated from Montclair State Teachers College (New Jersey) at the top of her Latin class. After her first year of teaching Latin in Kinnelon, New Jersey, she started an acting career in NYC, studying at the Gene Frankel Studio. Two years later (1968), Galsworth traveled in Europe for a year and a half, learning French and Italian and continuing to act. Returning to NYC in the 70s, Galsworth joined an experimental acting group, The Performance Garage, and then traveled back to Europe to study acting with Jerzy Grotowski in Poland. That connection brought her to Paris a few months later to audition, by special invitation, for Peter Brook and his London-based National Repertory Theatre. On her second return to New York, she enrolled in Hunter College for a Master’s in Special Education for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, with the intention of establishing a theatre where deaf people performed not with the language of signing, such as the National Theatre of the Deaf (NTD) promoted, but through a unique language of physical and sound images that deaf actors would invent from their own expressive needs. Though NTD ultimately dominated the field and Galsworth did not complete this degree, her interest in visual and sensory language equivalents had begun. Galsworth received both her Masters (1981) and PHD in Education and Statistics (1984) from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gwendolyn Galsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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