IDGs and Systems Thinking, May 25, 2022

How can we create healthier human systems by working together with complex issues and shared leadership, and what does compassion have to do with it?
Peter Senge leads this IDGs gathering and shares his wealth of experience in this area, joined in a panel with Renée Lertzman and Michiel Bakker.
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Peter Senge, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Founding Chair of the Society of Organizational Learning (SoL), a global network of people and institutions working together for systemic change. His work centers on promoting shared understanding of complex issues and shared leadership for creating healthier human systems. This has involved major cross-sector collaborative projects focused on global food systems, climate change, circular (zero waste) business models and regenerative economies. Today he faces on advancing a "compassionate systems” approach to shaping the future of education. Peter is the author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (over two million copies sold worldwide) and co-autor of three related field books. The Fifth Discipline was recognized by Harvard Business Review as “one of the seminal management books of the last 75 years,” and by the Financial Times as one of five “most important” management books. The Journal of Business Strategy named him as one of the 24 people who had the greatest influence on business strategy in the 20th century.
Dr. Renée Lertzman is a renowned psychologist, author and sustainability strategist who uses psychological insights to change our approach to the environmental crisis. She works with companies, nonprofits and governments looking to strengthen climate and sustainability initiatives, develop more effective campaigns, and harness the creativity and innovation needed to solve big challenges. Renée is also the founder of Project InsideOut, a unique platform, online tool, and resource hub that brings together changemakers, activists, and clinical psychologists to drive sustainable behavior change for our planet. Renée received her MA in Environmental Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her PhD from the Cardiff School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. She is a founding member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and author of Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement (Routledge, 2015).
Michiel Bakker VP, Global Workplace Programs, Google. Michiel is a senior strategic, multi-disciplined, global ‘services and experiences’ business leader, grounded in hospitality with a touch of technology. As the visionary behind Google’s celebrated flagship Food@Work program, he brings deep experience in global operations, people, project, program, design / development and change management. He presently leads Google’s Real Estate and Workplace Services’ (REWS) Global Programs Team with overall responsibilities for the design, development and ongoing delivery of REWS global workplace programs & services to over 225K+ individuals around the world (50+ countries). Michiel and his teams are focused on developing and activating integrated and holistic approaches (i.e. health and wellbeing, sustainability, placemaking), the future of the workplace experience, change management, senior leadership development as well change leadership, enabling and scaling up organizations.