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).

She is an international associate of Generon Consulting, a Boston based international consulting firm. She has also served as a former member of the Board of Directors of a SmithKline Beecham start-up in Munich, Head of Strategy & Organizational Development at Glaxo Germany and an international project leader at Ciba Headquarters, Switzerland. She has over 10 years of experience with global players in the pharmaceutical, healthcare technology and consumer industries.

Since 1999, Ursula Versteegen has helped innovators in health care, consumer industries, education and non-for-profit organizations to initiate and sustain social networks and teams to develop prototypes for product, service and system innovations. Together with Otto Scharmer, she has researched, experimented and tested a number of toos and practices in the fields of dialogue and social time and space as enablers of large system innovation.

Ursula Versteegen holds a Ph.D. in social sciences from University of Freiburg in Germany and a Masters of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health and published several papers co-authored with Scharmer.