John Hovell

John Hovell is the CEO and cofounder of STRATactical. He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in Organization Development/Knowledge Management strategies and their application to current organizational challenges. He believes and practices the blend of OD, KM, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 

Hovell is on the team to converge these fields and create an emerging new discipline currently known as Conversational Leadership. Clients of STRATactical International report award-winning improvements in organizational performance, customer satisfaction and retention, and employee engagement and retention.

Hovell led a team to win a Chairman's Award at BAE Systems in 2014. Previously, he was part of a team to win the prestigious NOVA award, Lockheed Martin's top recognition award. Additionally, he has been instrumental in the creation and execution of transformation change efforts in dozens of countries.

Hovell volunteers as the corporate lead for the award-winning annual STEMmerday event where thousands of participants engage in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math-related learning activities. He serves on several advisory boards including the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, International Knowledge Management Institute, Training Industry Quarterly, and Synergy Development and Training.

He has led five different teams that have won awards from Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2015, he was named the eighth most influential person in Knowledge Management. He published a chapter in a book titled Making It Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management and became a fellow with the Royal Society for Arts (RSA). In 2009, he was honored by Training magazine as one of the "Top Young Trainers" after being honored in 2008 as one of the top “Young Trainers to Watch.”

Hovell identifies as loving awareness and is particularly passionate in an emerging field called Conversational Leadership. Conversational Leadership is a blend of Organization Development, Diversity and Inclusion, Knowledge Management, and Project Management.