Learn More:  Webinars

One of the newest and most effective ways of teaching and learning is webinars! This interactive venue is an engaging and highly productive way to learn in a way that is convenient and cost effective for learners.

Live Webinars

Live webinars give users a chance to use their computers to hear Glenda Eoyang and other HSD Associates make presentations about applications of HSD principles. Participants have the opportunity to interact with each other and with the presenter through live chat during the real-time presentation. When you purchase a live webinar, you have unlimited access to the On Demand archive once the webinar is completed, as well as a community dialogue page intended for further discussion and collaboration.

Our next Live Webinar series promises to be engaging and interesting, provide a variety of applications and tools based in HSD principles.


Strategy to Action: The Power of HSD

Package Includes:  Series of 6 live webinars, with free introductory session

Guide: Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D.
Cost: $199
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Dates: 12:00 central time on the following Wednesdays:

September 10
October 8
November 5
December 10
January 7
February 11

If you answer yes to any of the questions below, please read on and join this unique on-line program.                

  • Are you frustrated with the speed and unpredictability of change? 
  • Do you have difficulty explaining your reliable intuitions about what should be done and how to do it? 
  • Are you curious about the ideas of chaos and complexity connected to business, and want to see how those ideas can make a real difference in decision making and action? 

The foundation of Human Systems Dynamics assumes: 

  • Fitness is the foundation of success.
  • Dialogue is only the beginning. Meaningful change depends on action.
  • Individual transformation is not enough. Real change engages the whole - your team, organization, or community.
  • Possibilities for the future are locked into the patterns of today's reality.
  • An answer has a short shelf life, but a good question can serve forever. 

Do these assumptions shock or confirm your own beliefs about organizational change and performance? If they shock you, then get ready for a new, more productive, way to see the world. If they confirm your beliefs, then you can build on success as you articulate, share, and expand your understanding of complex human systems.

A deeper understanding of human systems dynamics will change how you perceive and take effective action to improve performance.

During this seven-part series, you will:

  • Approach human performance in new and more productive ways.
  • Learn tricks to help you manage projects in unpredictable situations.
  • Manage performance when you cannot predict or control objectives and outcomes.
  • Make and implement plans that help you balance stability and surprise.
  • Design communication systems that leverage the inherent capacity of your community.
  • Prepare yourself and your staff for the future with strategies that build adaptive capacity.
  • Leverage virtual communications to improve both process and outcomes.
  • Establish relationships in a network of shared inquiry around the world.

This workshop is a must for professionals in the public and private sectors, higher education and government. Take a look at our webinar series Strategy to Action: the Power of HSD.  These seven sessions continue the learning about thinking and working differently with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities.

Introduction to HSD (free intro session)
Session 1: HSD and Project Management
Session 2: HSD and Performance Management
Session 3: HSD and Planning for Change
Session 4: HSD and Communications.
Session 5: HSD and Training and Development
Session 6: HSD and Virtual Teams

On Demand Webinars

On Demand (archived) webinars allow users to access the training at their convenience. The price is discounted since live interaction in the training is not possible. Users have unlimited access to the archive presentation, including audio.

Finding the Fix That Fits: Human Systems Dynamics at Work

Package Includes: On-Demand Webinar: Series of 6 1-hour programs, plus introductory session and overview by Glenda Eoyang.

Guide: Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D.
Cost: $149 - Purchase the Full Series
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Change is changing. Words like resilience, adaptation, emergence, and transformation are liberally sprinkled throughout the latest theories and tools for change. But, what do these words mean? How can you see and influence the complex patterns that shape the future for individuals, teams, organizations, and communities today? How can you increase performance in systems where:

  • change is constant?
  • relationships are complicated?
  • communications are virtual?

In this complex and fast-moving world, there is no one solution that’s good enough. What works one day in one situation may be worse than nothing at another time and place. To find the “fix that fits,” you need to understand what drives change. You need to have tools and techniques that help you generate options for action and pick the one that has the best chance of success right now. You need a theory base that helps you learn from the past to take action in the present that will inform the future you desire. You need human systems dynamics.

Join Glenda Eoyang and the HSD Institute in our latest webinar series “Finding the Fix that Fits: Human Systems Dynamics at Work”. Find the fix that fits when you:

  • Recognize when and why your old tools fail
  • Name the patterns that shape complex change for you and your team
  • Assess your situation and explore out-of-the-box options for action
  • Develop a theory of change that embraces familiar tools while suggesting radical innovations

These six sessions form a foundation for thinking and working differently with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities.

Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools

Package includes: On Demand Webinar: 2 hour program with overview and introduction by Glenda Eoyang

e-Book: Coping With Chaos: Seven Simple Tools
Guide: Glenda H. Eoyang
Cost: $79 - Purchase 

This pre-recorded web-based seminar comes with the e-book of the same title.

Learn how seven simple tools from chaos and complexity help generate new options for action as you address your most sticky issues. With stories and examples, Dr. Eoyang brings to life the powerful and beautiful images that shape emergent coherence in complex systems. You will learn how to integrate the seven simple chaos tools into your own practice. The tools include:

  • Butterfly effects
  • Boundaries
  • Transforming feedback loops
  • Fractals
  • Attractors
  • Self-organization
  • Coupling

The accompanying e-book gives a rich and in-depth look into each of these complex patterns and how they help you see and influence the human systems around you.

Exchange: Design for Coordinated Action

Package includes: On Demand Webinar: 1-hour program with overview and introduction by Glenda Eoyang

Guide: Glenda H. Eoyang
Cost: $39 - Purchase  

How many of your clients have problems they describe as "communication issues?” Human systems dynamics offers an analytical way to consider connections among people, which are often recognized but seldom addressed. In this one-hour pre-recorded webinar, you will learn new ways to assess current connections and design new and more adaptive exchanges among individuals and groups. This approach lets you focus your communication energy and design exchanges that are most effective for a given relationship, content, and time.