People

Arawana Hayashi
Trained from childhood as a dancer, Arawana's pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in improvisation, collaboration and traditional dance forms. MORE »
Dr. Arndt H. Zeitz
Born in Bielefeld 1969, Arndt H. Zeitz studied at Karlsruhe's Technical University from 1989 to 1995 and holds the German equivalent of a Master's of Business with a minor in engineering. In 1998 Arndt H. Zeitz earned a Ph.D. in economics and management from the University of Karlsruhe. He is the author of a book that deals with the reality of change management processes in large organizations (published 1998). MORE »
Arthur Zajonc
Arthur Zajonc is Andrew Mellon professor of physics and interdisciplinary studies at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. He has been visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and the universities of Rochester, and Hannover. MORE »
Beth Jandernoa
Beth Jandernoa is an organizational learning consultant who divides her time between the U.S. and South Africa. The scope of her work includes leadership development, dialogue, large-scale participative change interventions and mentoring programs for emerging women leaders. Beth has over 20 years of experience working with business, healthcare, education, non-profit and government clients. MORE »
Dayna L. Cunningham
Dayna L. Cunningham is Director of the Center for Reflective Community Practice (CRCP) at MIT. CRCP is a center of research and practice within the MIT Department of Urban Planning. Cunningham also directs the ELIAS Project, an MIT-based collaboration between business, ngos and government that seeks to use processes of profound innovation to advance economic, social and environmental sustainability. MORE »
Hein Dijksterhuis
Hein is co-founder of CORDES leadership & change consultants in The Netherlands. He is committed to help people and their organizations to reach their full potential. He is a coach to board members and their teams in a wide variety of organizations. His clients have included Triodos Bank, Philips, ABN AMRO, ING, British Petroleum, Red Cross Hospital, Erasmus Medical Centre, the City of Amsterdam, Lyondell, Heineken. He is a specialist in leadership and project management. MORE »
Hinrich Mercker
Hinrich Mercker heads the Berlin-based division "Environment, Energy and Water" which is part of InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany. He also works as a certified management coach. Hinrich participated in 2006/2007 in the programme Emerging Leaders For Innovation Across Sectors (ELIAS), which has been initiated by the MIT/Cambridge. MORE »
Dr. Ilma Barros
Ilma Barros works on large strategic planning summits in business and social change. Most recently, Ilma facilitated the Global Forum Latin America, an encounter that gathered 1200 people to think about sustainability in a systematic manner, involving business leaders, academic researchers, the government, and the civil society. Ilma is also an ELIAS Fellow (Emerging Leaders for Innovation across Systems.) MORE »
Janice Spadafore
Janice Spadafore works with Otto Scharmer on all his consulting projects and calendar events handling all the financial and logistical details as well as client relations. She is a founding member of the Presencing Institute and leads the development of the web based infrastructure. MORE »
Jim Marsden
Jim Marsden is currently leading a variety of organizational development initiatives within Hewlett Packard. With more than 16 years of experience at HP, he has worked across the company in positions including organizational development, business team management, strategic planning and marketing management. MORE »
Judith Flick
Judith holds an MA in Social Anthropology from the Leiden University in The Netherlands, where she majored in Gender studies. This was followed by a post-masters degree in Management for Business Administration. In 2006 she enrolled in the first course for Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Systems (ELIAS), a joint leadership development initiative of a multi-sectoral group of global organizations, hosted by MIT in Boston. MORE »
Dr. Katrin Kaeufer
Dr. Katrin Kaeufer leads the research effort at the Presencing Institute. Her current work includes research on social transformation, distributed leadership, and social technologies. MORE »
Kelvy Bird
Kelvy harnesses group creativity for projects that cultivate learning and personal development. Her recent work with the Presencing Institute revolves around The Global Classroom and online community development. Kelvy has over 13 years experience as a graphic scribe and process facilitator in business settings. MORE »
Manish Srivastava
Manish Srivastava is a Systemic Change Consultant with expertise and passion for “coaching leaders and organizations towards seeking inner wholeness and co-creating a sustainable future”. He is currently involved as a Research Fellow with Presencing Institute. MORE »
Margaret K. O'Bryon
Margaret O'Bryon is president and CEO of the Consumer Health Foundation. The foundation's work is dedicated to improving the health of Washington, D.C. area communities, particularly the most vulnerable members of these communities, and supporting activities that enable people to be more actively involved in their own health. MORE »
Martin Kalungu-Banda
Martin works as Global HIV/AIDS Leadership Advisor for Oxfam GB based in Oxford UK. He is also a Core-Faculty Member of the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry's Business and Environment Programme. MORE »
Nicanor Perlas
Nicanor Perlas is President of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) in Manila where he guides research and policy work and develops initiatives on globalization, threefolding and their impacts on civil society, cultural power and sustainable development. MORE »
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of the Presencing Institute. He introduced the theoretical framework and practice called “presencing” in his book Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges (2007), and in Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (2005), co-authored with Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. With his colleagues, Scharmer has used presencing to facilitate profound innovation and change processes both within companies and across societal systems. More information about Scharmer and his work can be found at: www.ottoscharmer.com
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Peter M. Senge, Ph.D.
Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization. Sayra Pinto-Wilson Sayra Pinto-Wilson currenlty serves as the Executive Director of the Twin Cities Latino Coalition and the Associate Vice President for Inclusion and Community Learning at Mount Wachusett Community College. MORE »
Dr. Ursula Versteegen, M.P.H.
Dr. Ursula Versteegen is co-founder of the Society for Organizational Learning, Germany and a founding member of the Presencing Institute. She is an independent action researcher and consultant and works with Dr. C. Otto Scharmer (the MIT Leadership Lab). MORE »