Certification Courses

Certification Courses

HSDP Certification - Virtual Course

August 15 - December 19, 2023

Are you interested in becoming a certified HSD Professional, but you cannot commit to the face-to-face portion of the program? If so, this program is for you.

HSDP Certification - Roffey Park

August 29 - December 18, 2023

Working in partnership with Human Systems Dynamics Institute, Roffey Park is offering the rare opportunity to work with Glenda Eoyang, founder of the field of HSD, in the UK.

Adaptive Action Labs

Addressing the Challenges of NOW: Adaptive Action for Sustainability

Jun 11 - 14

Organization development professionals are taking a courageous stand. In place of their annual conference this year, they will gather to address three critical issues of our time. Climate change is, of course, on the agenda.

Create Your Narrative: Change Your Story, Change Your Patterns

Jun 17, 24, 2023 | 12p - 3p CDT | Online

A narrative is made up of the stories we tell. Narratives are powerful. They frame expectations and assumptions. They motivate and inform action. But narratives can also lock us into patterns of the past. In today’s world, we…

Consult in Complex Times: Help Your Clients Navigate the Turbulence

Aug 22, 24, 2023 | 12p - 3p CST | Online

In simpler times, change came slowly, if at all. Consultants could build their careers on approaches learned in graduate school. They took successful solutions from one client to the next.

Upcoming Labs

An Adaptive Action Lab offers the best of consulting and training into a single event. As a participant, you define and work on your most intractable challenge. Then you learn about human systems dynamics (HSD) as you apply your new learning to frame your challenge in a way that points to your best next wise action.

Adaptive Action Labs

Live Virtual Workshops

Live Virtual Workshops

HSD Community Commons

June 22, 2023 The Community Commons meetings are for HSD practitioners, wherever they are in their journey. The meetings will be an opportunity for HSD folks to: Report on what they’ve learned from putting HSD into practice …

Change is Inevitable: Resilience Takes Some Work

August 3, 2023 Change is perpetual in a complex system, so your response must be perpetual, too. What worked yesterday will probably not meet the same needs in an emergent future. Because of the inevitability of change, you…

See Possibilities in Problems

September 7, 2023 Your options for action depend on what you see. What you see depends on what you look for. If you are looking for problems and barriers, you will surely find them. Then your only choice will be to solve the…

Upcoming Live Virtual Workshops and HSD Community Commons

Glenda Eoyang, founder of the field of HSD, hosts free, online Virtual Workshops (webinars) every month. Covering topics from health care to education reform to world peace, she draws on current events, global opportunities and concerns, and local actions.

Custom Design Labs

Partner Offerings

Online or in person, wherever you are…

Your intractable problems are one-of-a-kind. Your people are special. Your industry is transforming. Your market is shifting. Your challenges are wicked. Consultants make assumptions, give advice, and leave the work to you.…

Custom Design Labs