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Daniel Wilson is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero where he explores inherent dilemmas of knowing, trusting, leading, and belonging in adult collaborative learning. His work examines how groups navigate these tensions through using flexible language, routines, roles, and artifacts and is currently organized around three areas: Professional learning in communities: How do professionals from diverse disciplines come together to learn with and from one another? Currently Daniel directs the research of Project Zero's Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA), an interdisciplinary professional learning community that facilitates cross-organizational learning on the contemporary challenges of human development and change in organizations. LILA involves top leaders from twenty global organizations such as the YMCA, McDonalds, Pfizer, US Army, and SunMicrosystems. Since 2000, LILA has conducted dozens of explorations into themes such as the emerging science of decision making, the future of learning, and leadership development. Learning behaviors in the workplace: How do professionals develop and deploy actions that enable learning in their every day work? His recent co-authored book, Learning at Work (2005), outlines practices that support formal and informal learning in the workplace. Daniel's current research with design engineering teams focuses on how professionals develop and lead learning behaviors--such as help-seeking and feedback giving--as part of their professional practice. Uncertainty and team learning: How do teams adaptively deal with doubt as they perform? For the past several years Daniel has been investigating the nature of team learning in complex and highly uncertain environments. Forthcoming publications based on his dissertation, Team Learning in Action (2007), illuminate how elite professional athletic teams engage in "extreme teaming" in order succeed in the face of uncertainty and stress. Since joining Project Zero as a researcher in 1993 he has also participated on projects such as: Teaching for Understanding (1993-1996), Understanding for Organizations (1996-1999), Teaching for Understanding in Universities (1996-1999), Wide World Project (1999-2002), Project-based Learning in After Schools Project (2000-2002), and the Storywork Project with the International Storytelling Institute (2002-2004). When not at Project Zero he can be found playing drums and percussion with a local band and laughing with his wife and their new daughter, Ruby Maria. Contact Information: Dr. Daniel Gray Wilson Project Zero |
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