From October 1996 to Novemb er 2000, Steve Denning was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank, where he spearheaded the Bank’s knowledge program. 
. He now works part-time with the World Bank and consults with other organizations in the U.S., Europe and Australia on knowledge management and organizational storytelling. Steve also conducts workshops in the US and Europe on organization storytelling.
    Steve Denning is the author of the The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations (published by Butterworth Heinemann, 2000) which describes how storytelling can serve as a powerful tool for organizational change and knowledge management. 
    In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos) along with Jack Welch (GE) and John Chambers (CISCO). 
    Steve’s website has a collection of materials on knowledge sharing and storytelling and may be found at: www.stevedenning.com
    Steve Denning was born and educated in Sydney, Australia. He studied law and psychology at Sydney University and worked as a lawyer in Sydney for several years. He did a postgraduate degree in law at Oxford University in the U.K. Steve then joined the World Bank where he worked for several decades in many capacities and held various management positions, including Director of the Southern Africa Department from 1990 to 1994 and Director of the Africa Region from 1994 to 1996.
     Steve has given many presentations on knowledge management and storytelling in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He was a member of the Conference Board Quality Council V from 1992 to 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (U.K.) He has published a novel and a volume of poetry.