"We strengthened our ability to act as a team."


"Role plays were
very powerful!"


"The workshop was both stimulating and fun!"

"We learned
 -more about each other
 -how to better interact and   trust others
 -how to communicate more   effectively
 -more listening techniques"

Pediatric Practice Workshop
"All About Children"

Building Points of View, LLC is an organization of professionals dedicated to providing creative conflict resolution and team building skills to companies and groups so that all can have choices about how to reduce the levels of stress and violence in their environments. In addition, the aim is to provide the group with the skills and experiences necessary to create the teamwork necessary to achieve their expected outcomes.

The workshop facilitators come from a variety of backgrounds from medicine to psychology, human relations, science and business. Each facilitator has been trained thoroughly in the Building Programs through participation and facilitator training.

One of our major goals is to start with workshops in companies and then create the facilitators to go out into the local communities-to general groups, to schools, to any group where there is a need to provide the skills for conflict resolution and team building.

Workshops are held in all parts of the world.
For more information, please contact us at info@bpov.com

Carole has been facilitating business and educational workshops for over 30 years with topics ranging from Alternatives to Violence, done both in prisons and in local communities to Project Management workshops in many major corporations such as Boeing and Cessna . She has been an international speaker on topics ranging from 'Electronic Data Interchange' to 'Reality-Beyond Technology to PEOPLE!'. Her background as a math/physics teacher and her wide range of experiences from a Montessori Directress, to a corporate information systems director (ITT) and her business startup experiences have provided her both with a wealth of experiences with many people and, her own self-discoveries along the way.

She was the co-founder in 1992 of ESIS, a multimillion dollar company in the business-to-business electronic commerce arena. ESIS is currently the leading provider of E-Commerce services to the aerospace industry. In her role with ESIS, Carole was the vice president of sales and marketing and led the consulting group. In the consulting role, Carole helped major companies' project teams both address the technical plans and the conflicts involved in running large projects. In using her training in conflict resolution, she enabled the teams to function more smoothly both in the company and in the interfaces with other companies.

Building Points of View, LLC was started as a result of Carole's experiences that indicated that given the appropriate 'tools' for conflict resolution that all projects would run more smoothly and that learning these tools also reduced the overall stress in the workplace. From the stress reduction comes the greater productivity that all businesses desire as well as an improvement in the individual's overall general health.

Carole's training has been broad and thorough. She has a BA in mathematics and physics and secondary education, has done graduate study in physics, gifted children and philosophy. She has received certifications in the Alternatives to Violence Program, Montessori Training, MRP (Material Requirements Planning), NeuroLinguistic Programming, Hypnosis and Mediation. Prior to joining the corporate world 25 years ago, she had taught at all school levels, including college courses in Business Problem Solving. She and her husband, Leo, are parents of 5 grown children and live in
San Diego, CA.

Leo has also participated in the Alternatives to Violence workshops both in the prisons as well as in the local community. He has been an outspoken person throughout his career in matters of social justice and peace. While at Cal Tech (California Institute of Technology), he was the vice president of the Southern California Chapter of the ACLU and was the regional chairman of the Student YMCA. He was also president of the Southern California section of the AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers).

Leo has filled his career as a physicist and educator with his own passion for the quality of education, the preciseness of science and the curiosity and joy he brings to everything. Most recently, in addition to being a Facilitator and Co-Founder of Building Points of View, Leo spends time as a master storyteller and actor. He tells stories with the Storytellers of San Diego, with Senior Stages Academy and with Outrageous Sages. He also spins nature yarns as a docent at the Torrey Pines State Reserve and at San Elijo Lagoon. As quoted from another biography of Leo, "For many years, Leo told stories about eletromagnetic waves, how they came about, and how they coursed through the ether - but his colleagues called it 'professing physics'. Then he told stores about how to communicate with ballistic missiles, but his boss called that 'briefing the customer'. Now he talks to children at the local library, with their Grandparents and Books program, and they call that 'telling stories'!

Leading to his work with Building Points of View, Leo was a Senior Scientist at TRW working with their ICBM program. His initial teaching was as a Fulbright Lecturer in Physics at the University of Ceylon. From there he became a physics professor at Texas Christian University and was elected as the Alpha Chi Professor of the Year. At the National Science Foundation, he was the Program Director for the Science Course Improvement Program. He also participated in the development of a Self-Paced Curriculum for physics students.