Judith Flick

Judith Flick is an experienced facilitator with extensive cross-sectoral, multi-lingual experience in both leading cutting-edge initiatives and facilitating large change management processes.

Judith was born in Greece, carries the Dutch nationality and is presently living in South Africa. She has more than 15 years experience in social development, mainly in Latin America and southern Africa, but lately also in Asia.

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 2007 she become an ELIAS fellow after completing the first ELIAS course (Emerging Leaders Innovate Across Sectors), a joint leadership development initiative of a multi-sectoral group of global organizations, offered by SOL and the SLOAN School of Management at MIT, Boston. She is also a Fellow of the Community Innovation Lab at the Urban Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at MIT in Boston.

At present Judith is part of the Presencing Institute in Boston 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. Examples are the initiation and co-facilitation of a cross-sectoral group of leaders in Zambia, who are forging innovative ways to induce systemic changes that could change the present course of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, co-facilitation and accompaniment of a large scale health systems change process and leadership development initiative in Namibia and the co-facilitation of IDEAS - Indonesia and other courses offered by the Presencing Institute in Asia, Europe and the United States of America.

Previously, Judith has worked as a Regional Director for Oxfam Great Britain (OGB) first in South America and later in southern Africa, leading considerable change management processes. In 2004, she became OGB’s global lead on HIV/AIDS. In this role she established a Global Centre of Learning (GCoL) on HIV/AIDS, based in Pretoria, which she managed in 2007. The purpose of the GCoL is to define OGB’s HIV/AIDS policy and to facilitate learning about HIV/AIDS responses across the globe in search for more profound and lasting answers for people living in poverty.