Glenda Eoyang
January 11, 2023
3:30 PM to 4:15 PM EST
Ancient maps showed sea monsters and dragons beyond the edge of the known world. Today, we face emergent and unpredictable challenges of planning, innovation, leadership, and performance management that challenge many of our long-held assumptions about the worlds of work and life. We engage with open, high-dimension, nonlinear systems that challenge our capacity to understand and influence change as it happens. Current conditions open the door to a whole new generation of dragons at the edge of the post-modern world. In this session, we will introduce seven of the most dangerous of those dragons, explore how they expand and constrain options for action, and provide simple models and methods to help you see, understand, and influence a world beyond certainty and control. Bring your most wicked issues and leave with options for effective action to shape the emergent future for yourself and your team, organization, and community.
About Glenda Eoyang
Glenda Eoyang helps people and organizations thrive in the face of overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded the field of human systems dynamics (HSD) in 2001. As founding executive director of the HSD Institute she leads a global network of scholar-practitioners. Across disciplines and sectors, they use her models and methods to see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos toward coherence. Her recent clients include the Finnish Research Institute (VTT), US Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, British Columbia Ministry of Health, Oxfam International, The International Baccalaureate Organization, The Sustainability Consortium, the Association for Medical Education in Europe, UK National Health Service, and Roffey Park Institute. For more information about Glenda and HSD, visit www.hsdinstitute.org.