{"646539":{"#nid":"646539","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Alumnus Alex Berry: MVP on Teamwork, Mentorship, and Storytelling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexberrycmd\/\u0022\u003EAlex Berry\u003C\/a\u003E is a 2017 alumnus from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and an expert in collaborative problem-solving. He was part of the group that brought in a large grant for the development of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/etd.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Effective Team Dynamics Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E (ETD), which equips faculty with skills to teach graduate and undergraduate students to work effectively in teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlongside Mary Lynn Realff, associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Berry worked on research for ETD. Throughout his involvement with the initiative, he helped students to leverage their own strengths to create a successful team dynamic. He believes teamwork is important in other areas, too, such as mentorship. \u0026ldquo;I conceptualize almost my entire life around the concept of teams,\u0026rdquo; he said in the article.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBerry currently works for Intel and is the president of the Portland Georgia Tech Alumni Network. He\u0026rsquo;s also the founder of the social business Chocolate Milk Diplomacy, a career consultancy that empowers marginalized communities to tell their own professional stories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read the entire article about Berry\u0026rsquo;s work with ETD \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.etd.gatech.edu\/alex-berry.html\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlex Berry is an expert in collaborative problem-solving and was part of the group that brought in a large grant for the development of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Effective Team Dynamics Initiative (ETD).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alex Berry is an expert in collaborative problem-solving and was part of the group that brought in a large grant for the development of Georgia Tech\u2019s Effective Team Dynamics Initiative (ETD)."}],"uid":"35757","created_gmt":"2021-04-16 17:09:36","changed_gmt":"2021-04-21 21:08:49","author":"goberst3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-04-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"646538":{"id":"646538","type":"image","title":"Alex Berry","body":null,"created":"1618592371","gmt_created":"2021-04-16 16:59:31","changed":"1618592371","gmt_changed":"2021-04-16 16:59:31","alt":"Alex Berry","file":{"fid":"245424","name":"alex-berry square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex-berry%20square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex-berry%20square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2517855,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alex-berry%20square.jpg?itok=5bDY_dev"}}},"media_ids":["646538"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}