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Vale David Bennet, knowledge management thought leader

Dr David Bennet, a notable knowledge management thought leader, has passed away. On behalf of RealKM Cooperative, I pass on our thoughts and sympathies to David’s wife, Dr Alex Bennet, and their family.

With his wife Alex, David has made a significant contribution to research-based knowledge management (KM), publishing more than 40 books and numerous academic research papers. A nuclear physicist and neuroscientist, David was the Chairman of his own engineering consulting company. He advised senior leaders in government and industry in areas of strategic planning, decision-making, knowledge management, organizational learning, acquisition reform, enterprise alignment, integrated product teams, and integrated product and process development.

David and Alex also founded Mountain Quest Institute, which helps people achieve growth through quests for knowledge, meaning, and consciousness, using science, humanistic, and spiritual methodologies.

Article sources: Vincent Ribiere, Lucidea, Wikipedia, Mountain Quest Institute, Mountain Quest Retreats.

Header image source: Lucidea.

Bruce Boyes

Bruce Boyes is editor, lead writer, and a director of RealKM Magazine and winner of the International Knowledge Management Award 2025 (Individual Category). He is an experienced knowledge manager, environmental manager, project manager, communicator, and educator, and holds a Master of Environmental Management with Distinction and a Certificate of Technology (Electronics). His many career highlights include: establishing RealKM Magazine as an award-winning resource with more than 2,500 articles and 5 million reader views, leading the knowledge management (KM) community KM and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, using agile approaches to oversee the on time and under budget implementation of an award-winning $77.4 million recovery program for one of Australia's iconic river systems, leading a knowledge strategy process for Australia’s 56 natural resource management (NRM) regional organisations, pioneering collaborative learning and governance approaches to empower communities to sustainably manage landscapes and catchments in the face of complexity, being one of the first to join a new landmark aviation complexity initiative, initiating and teaching two new knowledge management subjects at Shanxi University in China, and writing numerous notable environmental strategies, reports, and other works.

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