Change is accelerating for individuals, communities, and institutions around the world. Often change brings excitement and opportunity, but sometimes it challenges hope. Whether it is good or bad, we need to adapt at the speed of change and to cope with the messiness that results.
Human Systems Dynamics offers simple, powerful tools to help you make sense of your chaotic change. In these online sessions, you will learn to:
- Tell the difference between complex change and change that is merely complicated
- See and shift simple patterns in your most wicked challenges
- Find language to understand and explain your intuitions about what works in complex change
- Explore the challenges of planning, evaluation, communications, and leadership in times of radical and unpredictable change
- Leverage the power and possibility of complexity
Faculty & Coaches
Glenda isn’t just an HSD expert—she is the founder of the field. A master teacher with deep insights into the art and science of self-organizing systems. Dr. Glenda Eoyang applies principles of self-organizing to help people thrive in unpredictable environments. She has certified more than 650 Associates, forming a global network of HSD practitioners. Her published works include numerous scholarly and practical articles, and she has authored and co-authored five books: Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools; Facilitating Organizational Change: Lessons from Complexity Science; Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics; Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization; and Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action and Complex Change.
Judy embarked on her Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) journey ten years ago. As an experienced evaluation consultant, she identified the synergies HSD offered to her research and practice across a wide range of organisations and sectors. While conducting research and evaluation in her own right, Judy helps others develop evaluation systems and frameworks, specialising in the use of evaluation rubrics.
For Judy, HSD bridges the art and science of looking into the self-organising of systems. She finds HSD particularly useful in helping her clients navigate complexity in their organisational situations, helping reach deep insights.
As a tangible outcome of using HSD tools and techniques, she finds people are able to take wise action and make progress in unpredictable environments.
Judy is Director of Pragmatica Limited – and a member of the Kinnect Group. She is based in Wellington, New Zealand. To continue her learning and sharing about HSD, Judy became a member of Thrival in 2018.
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