Chris Butler

Text and illustrations introduce young children to various body parts.

In 1860, the Clotilda smuggled the last group of enslaved West Africans to the U.S. through Alabama's Gulf Coast. After being emancipated five years later, these shipmates established Africatown outside Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders. Today, Africatown faces various challenges, including pollution from surrounding industries and legal and economic struggles. After the discovery of the Clotilda's remains in a nearby...

Aerospace giant Rockwell Collins typified the old-fashioned corporate approach to organizational learning: lackluster offerings in bland classroom settings, with little connection to the needs of employees or the goals of the company. Enter Cliff Purington and Chris Butler, who in three years transformed Rockwell into a full-fledged learning organization. With a strategy-based and technology-driven learning approach, a 400 percent increase in offerings,...