People
Arawana is an acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.She is leading the development of Embodied Presence Practice in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and the Presencing Institute.
Arthur Zajonc is Andrew Mellon professor of physics and interdisciplinary studies at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978.
Dr. Ben Chan is Director of Education Academy at United in Diversity Forum (UID), Indonesia, and is the local faculty in the MIT-IDEAS Indonesia Program.
Beth Jandernoa is an organizational learning consultant who divides her time between the U.S. and South Africa. She has served on the faculty at the Society for Organizational Learning, teaching the Core Competencies course with Peter Senge, and the Presencing: Leading for Profound Innovation and Change course with Otto Scharmer.
Dayna L. Cunningham is Executive Director of the Community Innovators Lab at MIT.
Frans is the Education Academy Director of United in Diversity Forum (www.unitedindiversity.org), an Indonesian non-profit set up to forge collaboration and learning amongst diverse leaders and sectors in Indonesia.
Gregor Barnum was the Director of Operations/Business Development for o.s.Earth, Inc. a consulting firm based in New Haven, CT that used the concepts of R. Buckminister Fuller to help Fortune 500 companies design business “to do more with less”.
Hein is co-founder of CORDES leadership & change consultants in The Netherlands. He is a specialist in leadership and project management.
Hinrich Mercker is Director of the Development Policy Forum / Dialogue, Event Design and Event Management (GIZ) in Berlin. He is an ELIAS Fellow and Research Affiliate at MIT's Community Innovators Lab (CoLab).
Dr. Ilma Barros is an ELIAS Fellow (Emerging Leaders for Innovation across Systems) and a member of the Presencing Institute.
Janice Spadafore works with Otto Scharmer on all his consulting projects, handling all the financial and logistical details. She is a founding member of the Presencing Institute.
Jim is the founder of an innovation oriented consulting service, Lean In llc, and a core member of the Presencing Institute leading training and assistance in the application of Theory U.
Judith is part of the Presencing Institute, and specializes in the application of the “U-process” through facilitation of change management processes of cross-sectoral groups around complex, multi-dimensional, global issues.
A co-founding member of the Presencing Institute, Dr. Katrin Kaeufer is research director at the Presencing Institute, and Research Fellow at the Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Kelvy Bird is working with the Presencing Institute to develop the Global Forum, Global Classrooms, and online community spaces.
Manish Srivastava is currently involved as a Research Fellow with Presencing Institute and is a Systemic Change Consultant with expertise “coaching leaders and organizations towards seeking inner wholeness and co-creating a sustainable future”.
Marian is the Africa-based core-team member of the Presencing Institute, as well as associate faculty for Leaders Quest (UK) facilitating multinational, multisectoral programs to engender responsible leadership for emerging market investment.
Martin works as Global HIV/AIDS Leadership Advisor for Oxfam GB. He is also a Core-Faculty Member of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry’s Business and Environment Programme.
Nicanor Perlas is President of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) in Manila, guiding research and policy work.
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the MIT IDEAS program and the Cambridge-based Presencing Institute.
Peter is Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, and Founding Chair of the Society of Organizational Learning (SoL), a global network of people and institutions working together for systemic change.
Reola Phelps is an organizational development consultant currently developing the consulting practice for the Presencing Institute.
Dr. Ursula Versteegen is co-founder of the Society for Organizational Learning, Germany and a founding member of the Presencing Institute.
