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Purple Line Associates

Learning. Change. By Design.

Jeff Merrell

Purple Line Associates is a research and consulting practice dedicated to designing innovative solutions for sharing and creating knowledge across organizations intent on making positive social contributions.

Jeff Merrell is Principal Consultant of Purple Line Associates. Jeff teaches a graduate-level course in knowledge management for the Learning and Organizational Change program at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. His academic and professional interests focus on linking knowledge-sharing practices to organizational strategy, with a particular emphasis on socially-responsible activities. He holds an M.S. in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Jeff is also a Board member of The Talking Farm, an Evanston-based 501c3 not-for-profit organization whose mission is to operate a sustainable urban agricultural enterprise that provides fresh and locally grown food,  job training, education and environmental research.