Iris Stammberger, Ph.D
Dr. Iris Stammberger holds an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Cognitive Studies from Tufts University. She also holds a M.Ed in Psychology (Group Dynamics) from Cambridge College and an MSEE from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. In addition she has an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from IESA in Venezuela and a Graduate Certificate in Human-Computer Interaction from Tufts University. She has also been certified as a Project Manager Professional by the Project Management Institute. Dr. Stammberger has taught different classes at several Universities in the Greater Boston area. In 2007 she founded Lionza Education, a consulting firm specialized in learning management. She is also the co-founder, President, CEO and Chief Scientist of the Learning Management Institute. Recently Lionza Education merged with the Learning Management Institute and has since become the Institute's consulting services unit.
Prior to moving with her family to the Boston area, Dr. Stammberger founded and managed, for more than 12 years, BETAI Consultores in Venezuela, an engineering consulting firm serving large industries and businesses in South America. In her role as a strategy consultant she became very interested in the ability of individuals and groups to produce innovations. Whether it meant adapting existing innovations or finding a new way to address a particular problem, there was still a clear observable distinction between groups that could innovate and those that could not. With graduate degrees in engineering and business, Dr. Stammberger was not prepared to fully understand the “Psychology of Innovation”, as she used to call it. To address her void, she immersed herself in cognitive science readings – What is it about the way people relate to each other, to their current knowledge, to their mental models, that allows them to be innovative workers?
To gain more expertise in that new emerging field of science, she went back to school. First she completed a Masters program in Psychology, followed by a PhD in Cognitive Studies. She also completed a degree in Human Computer Interaction. This program played a key role in her work since this field pays attention to the means to build technological systems and methods that function respecting what the mind has to offer, both in limitations and as resources.
It was during her cognitive science studies when Dr. Stammberger made her discovery. After completing all the programs, she engaged in an in-depth research that would further strengthen and sustain her discovery. Her findings transformed into a method and framework known as the TALBOK™ (Teaching and Learning Body of Knowledge). Realizing the importance of her accomplishment, Dr. Stammberger knew that her scholarly research needed a vehicle for the dissemination of her method around the world. Launching her consulting practice would allow her to partner on a global scale with many organizations, institutions, universities and research groups that support and promote the TALBOK™
In January 2007, in an effort to help address the need of education quality improvement at universities across Latin America, Dr. Stammberger partnered with LASPAU, a non-profit organization affiliated with Harvard University that has served the higher education community in the Americas for more than 40 years. Thanks to this strategic partnership, more than 5000 higher education professors in Latin America have been exposed to the TALBOK™. Dr. Stammberger’s goal is to disseminate this new model and learning theory around the globe.