Parallel Sessions

There will be 4 rounds of concurrent 90 minute Learning Labs during the Forum.

Learning Lab Round 1 Wednesday 14 September

Learning Lab Round 2 Wednesday 14 September

Learning Lab Round 3 Thursday 15 September

Learning Lab Round 4 Friday 16 September

Lunch and Learn Thursday 15 September


LEARNING LAB ROUND 1 — Wednesday 14 September

1-1
 Organisational Learning & Strategic Transformation of a Regional Governmental Organisation at the Lombardy Region - Italy
In 1997, a new school was launched by the regional administration of Lombardy (a region in Italy with 20% of the Italian GDP and thousands of businesses). Sponsored by the top executive and driven by Prof. Sinatra, the former rector magnificus of LIUC, a local university, the initiative was aimed at improving the effectiveness of regional executives. After five years, the top executives are satisfied with measurable improvements and, most importantly, a strong will to continue to improve! Our session will focus on how to build on this progress, and further improve the quality and speed of the top team, while involving all the executives in the effort. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
•Researchers and consultants in large scale change efforts
•Managers from similar institutions
Presenters
Ing. Paolo Alli is General Manager Public Utilities, Lombardy Region, Italy
Dott. Prof. Alessandro Sinatra is Scientific Director S.S.A.A. (a corporate university for regional top execs); and Director of the Business Economics Institute at Cattaneo University, Varese, Italy; and Chair of Business Policy, Cattaneo University, Varese, Italy
Dott. Prof. Alberto Bazzan is Prof. of management of international companies at the Milan Catholic University, Dept. of Business Economic

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1-2
3-D System Thinking
The 3-D System Thinking process provides a direct experience of the dynamic nature of open systems: Life is composed not of separate entities so much as of the relations between them. These relations are continually self-organizing. This session will be lively and fun. The process triggers co-intelligence in the group, everyone gets a refreshing picture of this major paradigm shift view of reality, and each has an opportunity to put his or her own words on it. We are indebted to Joanna Macy (Californian activist) who shared this game in Paris a few years ago, and to our colleagues in SoL France who helped adapt it. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
•Senior managers and all participants
Presenters
Béatrice Quasnik and Catherine Redeslperger both specialize in team coaching and change management to corporations. Their investigation into the evolutionary aspects of leadership, including data from this session, will be published in "Les cahiers de SoL France".

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1-3
Insights into Extraordinary Leadership and Transformative & Shape-Shifting Questions as a Genesis for Change
Insights into Extraordinary Leadership
A stirring discovery of how ordinary people can be mobilized to achieve the extraordinary. Mobilizing ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results, against all odds, in the most difficult of circumstances and consistently is the one thing every leader would want to know. Leadership is not only about creating extraordinary results. It is as much about transforming people by motivating them to do what they never thought was possible. How do you uncover the disabling myths that form the collective psyche and then challenge them, when most leaders are trapped within the disabling myths of their organizations and businesses? How do you trigger the drive and the motivation to even go after the extraordinary, when most people are happy at achieving the minimum required? How do you uplift entire groups of people who were given up as hopeless, inspiring them to become self dependent as well as to enable many others, when most leaders struggle to uplift direct reports on a day to day basis? Full session description.
Transformative & Shape-Shifting Questions as a Genesis for Change
Our Hypothesis: "Change starts with the questions you ask." Following on Erehwon's session, we will tap into the collective wisdom of the group by uncovering and working with those transformative questions that you've all been a part of in your lives and your work. Certain well-chosen questions can contain within them, intriguing options for inquiry. A well-informed question has embedded within it the potential to shift the listener from a prosaic or stuck way of seeing a particular problem or object, to a broader or more expansive view, possibly even an unexpected view. The surprise within the answer supplies the impetus for action going forward. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
A diverse group of leaders, practitioners, consultants, and researchers from the public sector, business, and government.
Presenters (Transformative & Shape-Shifting Questions as a Genesis for Change)
Madeline Nold is founder & director of Creative Action Associates: over 20 years working with organizations and executive development strategies. She has delivered her corporate and government workshops in Canada and Asia, has led seminars and workshops in Europe, and recently has led part of a Dialogue in the Bahamas. She mainly works in the U.S., offering her own assimilated and original approach to Coaching and Leadership Development practices.
Jean Tully is the founder of Tully Consulting; former SoL Liaison Officer, Hewlett-Packard, former Member Founding SoL Board of Trustees. As a weaver of ideas, she draws from multiple OD change methodologies and what's in the room to help teams create new possibilities, in the face of constantly changing environments.
Michael Yacavone is the founder of XeniumGroup LLC, a consulting firm specializing in developing technology systems and the organizational capacity required for innovative change. He is skilled at synthesizing ideas from disparate fields and creating holistic models to define, develop, and deploy new products and services.
Presenters (Insights into Extraordinary Leadership)
Rajiv Narang is the Founder Director of Erehwon Innovation Consulting, and a member of the Marico Innovation Foundation Board. His talent for insight creates rich new perspectives for strategic business and government initiatives. Rajiv has worked on consulting assignments and presented in conferences in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and India.
Devika Devaiah is a consultant with Erehwon Innovation Consulting, working in the area of Innovation and Leadership in the Asia Pacific Region.

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Aspects of Leadership Behaviour that Enable Continued Organisational Success
We will introduce the concept of Strategic Agility, the ability to reconfigure resources, and examine the leadership behaviours that support this capability. A common theme is that participants should be interested in managing change and leadership practices. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Participants from organisations of all sizes from all industries
• A cross-section of participants representing different organisational levels (leaders and followers)
Presenters
Dr. Brigitte Tantawy-Monsou is responsible for organisational learning and sustainability in Unilever.
Dr. Steve Tanner conducted the research that will be shared during the session.

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1-5
Corporate Consciousness Raising: Preparing Leaders to Address Global Issues
This forum will describe innovative "seeing is believing" methods to raise the consciousness of executives about global economic, social and environmental issues. Recently we designed and facilitated a CEO-led journey of Denmark-based Novo Nordisk vice-presidents to various locales in Brazil. The trip led us from the business and health care centers of Sao Paulo, to government ministries in Brasilia, to the rainforests and gatherings of indigenuous peoples, and finally to the favellas and beaches of Rio. At the various locales we met with business leaders to discuss economic development, with social entrepreneurs, volunteers, and staff to offer community service, and with health practitioners to see first hand and share views on improving access to health in Brazil. In this session, we will describe the aims, methods, and impact of such a learning journey and its relevance to companies and colleagues. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Executives
• Trainers
• Consultants
• Those interested in global issues and sustainability
Presenters
Philip Mirvis is an organizational psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Center for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College, and consultant to the top executive teams in companies that range from Ben & Jerry's to Shell and Unilever. A member of the SOL Council, his work with Tex Gunning of Unilever was featured at the prior SoL Global meeting and can be found in his recent book To the Desert and Back.
Claus Hasselbalch is Vice President, Global Talent Development, for Novo Nordisk. His company has been distinguished internationally for its triple-bottom line leadership and featured in CNN's profile of socially progressive enterprises. His hands-on leadership development programs reach multiple-layers of leaders annually and can be previewed on the company website.

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1-6
Trans-Cultural Dialogue and Sustainability: Exploring Potentials in Chinese Culture
Can we co-create with Chinese organisations a trans-cultural system of management that can cultivate the innate capacity in Chinese culture for human-nature interconnectedness? We will explore the potential to work together in China and elsewhere, to form collaborative pilot and explorative projects. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Organisational and community leaders and facilitators who encounter cross-cultural and sustainability issues related to Chinese businesses and society
• Anyone attracted to Chinese culture
Presenters
C. Will Zhang is a Research Member of Founding SoL, and a Visiting Scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management
Kang YiCheng is Vice President of JAC, and President of JAC University
Yuan XinCheng is COO of TCL Group, General Manager of TCL Mobile Company, and a receipient of the National Labor Day Metal and Excellent Manager Award
Zhou Qiong is Project Manager, Innovation Promotion Center, TCL Group, and an experienced organisational learning consultant in China
Dennis Sandow is a Research Member of Founding SoL who is studying how social, biological and financial well being arise in social systems; he has worked with Chinese companies
Mette S. Husemoen is a Research Member of Founding SoL, and a Post-doctoral Fellow at MIT Sloan School and Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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1-7
Discovering the DNA of Education as a Living System
Join in a learning laboratory around the question: What constitutes an adaptive school system in an interdependent world where knowledge is doubling every 20 years? Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Educators
• Organisational learning practitioners
• Individuals who are interested in focusing on giving to the next generation.
Presenters
Dr. Tony Rollins is director of KnowledgeGate, LLC which focuses on systems improvement efforts in public schools. A portion of his work is with the Panasonic Foundation.
Dr. Micah Fierstein is founder of The Change Institute, an organisation in Portland, Oregon, committed to providing educators access to the most advanced organisational learning tools.

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1-8
Keys to Efficient Team Work in a Multiparty Stakeholders Project Organisation
With the increased number of players involved, how can we make interests converge quickly to reduce the multiplicity and the extension of the development loops? Let's role-play a business case and try to find keys together following the example of the Ford Lincoln Continental team. The suggested role play through the confrontation with someone else's perspective and interests to defend, appeared to me as a good practice to create insights among the participants on the challenge of team work with everyone's diverging interests. This business case is issued from the Automotive Industry but it deals with issues common to all like team work and power game. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Managers from large corporations and the automotive industry
Presenter
Bruno Lambert - A program manager for the French subsidiary of Magna Steyr who is open to every dialogue and learning opportunity.

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1-9
Enabling "Learning Organisation" Mental Models - a thinking/talking game to challenge and support dialogue in resilient organisations
A chaordic learning context in action - nothing is certain - many things are possible. A ‘full immersion’ simulation. Everyone simultaneously learns, and teaches about, ‘learning’ via an ‘action learning’ cycle. Observation, reflection, action and analysis share time and space. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wants to experience — in a 'safe environment' — the results of taking a risk about such things as:
speaking both the left and right hand column
vocalisisng profound ignorance of what is expected of you
'doing' before analysising (ready fire aim!)
reflecting while 'in the moment' and then articulating what was observed without recourse to value judgements.
Presenters
Dr Elyssebeth Leigh, UTS, Australia, uses simulations to challenge and support the learning of workplace educators; she researches chaordic simulations on the theme of ‘playing to learn’
Ivo Wensler, Accenture, the Netherlands, is researching factors for longevity in organizations, and uses simulations to help people explore present and future options.

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1-10
Rapid Prototyping Spaces for Policymaking: a Future Center Approach
Future Centers are innovation-enabling workspaces for civil servants and their stakeholders in society. The Netherlands has five such centers for the public sector. This session explores two innovative methodologies - "future centers" as work environments to stimulate innovation and "rapid prototyping spaces" for improving the policymaking process - in the experiential context of work-in-progress. Our intention is to stimulate reflection, create new knowledge, and make the concepts accessible for participants to make use of themselves after the session. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
. Practitioners dealing with large systems, social innovation and future-oriented methodologies
. Senior managers from business, nonprofit organizations, and government
Presenters
Hank Kune has been active since the 1980's as consultant, coach, facilitator, and developer of innovation and learning processes in knowledge-intensive organisations. He was chairman of the 1st International Future Center Summit, held in May 2005.
Jur Kosterbok is director of Future Center The Country House, a joint venture of Dutch four ministries. He is a civil servant dedicated to enhancing the innovative capacity of the public sector.
Herman Meines is facilitator of the electronic boardroom at The Country House. He has a passion for using creativity to improve work processes in government.
Christa Fortunati develops and facilitates work programmes for The Country House. Her focus is people and how to energize them during all stages of their work. The presenters are active in the international Future Center network, initiated in the Netherlands this year.

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1-11
Composing a Symphony of Learning: Environment, Design, and Personal Mastery
This session composes three movements into a symphony that builds technical competency in a global work force: design, environment, and personal mastery. By the end of the session, participants will generate fresh thinking and action by composing the three movements into a symphony that defines “how we work here. Full session description.”
Who Should Attend
• Executives interested creating a mindset change in their organisations
• Learning professionals who want to experience a new way of learning that promotes behavioural change
• Personal change experts who are interested in facilitating organisational change
Presenters
Mary White Kennedy has been driving change through leading edge design and development for twenty-five years. Joining Shell in 1998, Mary introduced AL as a design technology that incorporates a blended approach in a workplace learning format.
Ann Burress, Ph.D., has eighteen years of management consulting experience with Fortune 100 corporations. Ann is leading change for Shell International Exploration & Production's Learning & Leadership Development organisation, and developing programmatic behavioral change for the global EP business. Ann is a member of APA and SIOP.

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LEARNING LAB ROUND 2 — Wednesday 14 September

2-1
Innovation Cells
Does innovation follow the same rules as efficient production? The session opens a dialogue about professional and leadership challenges when disruptive innovation is the goal. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Managers and leaders in R&R
• Development (product and process) innovators
• Innovation and development team scientists
Presenters
Uwe Weissflog is consultant, facilitator and author. He works with teams and leaders in the field of human-centric development and innovation.
Prof. Dr. Wördenweber leads the innovation work at Visteon's Global Advanced Engineering (Exterior) organisation. He is also teaches at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

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2-2
Making Communication Brain-Compatible
This session is for anyone who wants insight into the systemic nature of thought and how they can leverage cognitive research to improve the quality of their communications. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
A diverse group of participants
Presenters
Dr. Bronwyn Horvath is an educational consultant with extensive experience developing and running creative leadership programs that focus on learning through dialogue and systems thinking.

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2-3
Innovations by Social Networks
Participants will together analyze raw and pre-arranged data of a qualitative research programme studying the social networks required to produce economical innovations. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• System practioners
• Innovative organisations
• Researchers and consultants.
Presenters
Vesa Taatila is a Senior Lecturer of Innovation Management at Laurea Polytechnic. He has previously worked as a senior HR executive in several global companies.

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2-4
Future Leadership - from chaos to harmonious, innovative and positive symphonies
An interactive and innovative journey to discover fresh opportunities toward supercreativity, superproductivity, a positive future leadership and a quantum leap in organisations. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Persons interested in the questions facing today's organisations and leadership.
Presenters
Satu Teerikangas, PhD candidate on human, managerial & cultural perspectives to M&A at Helsinki University of Technology & HR strategy & policy advisor at Shell UK.
Merja Fischer, Director, Wärtsilä Corporation & PhD candidate on future leadership at Helsinki University of Technology.
Matti Willamo, MSc, has 36 years’ work experience in the Finance & Insurance sectors of which 12 years as CEO and 8 years as SEVP.
Ville Handolin, PhD candidate on non-material rewarding at the Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology.
Paula Siitonen, PhD, ecologist working on Systems Intelligence and participatory environmental decision-making at Helsinki University of Technology.

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2-5
Empowerment in the Jungle Organisation
We will discuss how learning organisations develop employees’ sense of empowerment by encouraging their intrinsic sense of commitment. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Business executives
Consultants
Presenters
Ashis Sen is a practitioner with an engineering background working for the last 20 years in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
Subir Sarkar is a practitioner with an engineering background working in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
Moola Parameshwar is a practitioner with an engineering background working in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.

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2-6
Igniting Leadership at All Levels to Ensure the Earth's Vitality
In the last decade the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development (ORD) has utilized resources, staff and energy to address an array of organizational issues and concerns within the 2000 member scientific/engineering workforce. This session will trace the application of the Appreciative Inquiry approach using large-scale organizational "Summits" and smaller work groups. This process has helped drive profound culture change resulting in new ways of conducting research, recognizing and defining leadership, and building partnerships with internal and external stakeholders. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Managers, practioners and the curious interested in an Apprecitive Inquiry application within a large government research and development science community.
Presenters
Lek G. Kadeli Deputy Assistant Administrator for Management, for US EPA, Office of Research and Development, manages all aspects of financial/budget, human resources, Information Technology and other managerial services.
Mary McCarthy O'Reilly Manager of Organizational Development for a 2000 member Research and Development community of US EPA., Washington, D. C.
G. Lee Salmon Practioner, coach and counsel for EPA's leadership initiative who serves as an executive consultant with the Federal Consulting Group, US Department of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.

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2-7
Circle of Questions: Innovative contexts for learning in business
This session will explore an innovative methodology centered on the premise that only genuine questions can lead to unexplored paths that are fresh and open. The methodology is used with two main objectives: a)To start new projects from a totally open and expanded mindset. b)To help top-level management create a participative environment where it is safe to ask generative questions that expand perspectives and improve business results. In most business environments, managers and their teams have been continuously losing opportunities to engage in deep learning, by living in a permanent anxiety to provide answers before asking questions. The Circle of Questions is a powerful methodology for people to learn how to ask questions that really matter and, therefore, a leverage for improved decisions and results. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Senior Managers
Managers
Practioners
Anybody attending the Forum
Presenters
Maria Cristina Koury d' Arce, Ph.D.

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2-9
Leveraging Complexity to Create and Sustain a Learning World
Participants will identify strategies to embrace and leverage multiculturalism in organisations for creating and sustaining desired futures. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
This session is designed to include participants from large and small companies, as well as from NGOs.
Presenters
Irène Dupoux-Couturier has led the Centre de Formation aux Réalités Internationales (CEFRI) since 1973. She has worked in particular with Arie de Geus, author of The Living Company and with Peter Senge. Her research work deals with corporate culture and organisational learning. She is member of the Organizing Committee for the SoL Global Forum.
Sharon Darnell, Ph.D. completed her doctoral research on organizational learning and change. She has led large-scale organizational change efforts within the US government.
Dr Zhaoyi Wu is a researcher and consultant on knowledge and innovation and intercultural management and communication.
Carrie L. Spell-Hansson

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2-10
Organisational Transformation: Moving Beyond Capacity Building to Systemic Change
Building individual and team capacity in the five disciplines is essential work. Yet to support effective systems change, we must learn to address the infrastructures of the collective system. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Will appeal to researchers, practitioners and consultant/capacity builders. Especially those seeking to address large scale change.
Presenters
Peter Senge is the Founding Chair of SoL and author of The Fifth Discipline.
Juanita Brown, a consultant member of SoL, is the author of The World Cafe.
Sara Schley, a consultant member of SoL, is the co-steward of the SoL Sustainability Consortium.
Robert Hanig is a consultant member of SoL. His most recent large scale change intervention is at BP with the top 13,000 managers.

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2-11
Social Action Research: Reflections on well being
Social Action Research establishes a network of collective reflection on how social, biological and financial well being arise in the performance of work. Full session description.
Presenter
Dennis Sandow is a research member of SoL and has been studying the work of Chilean biologist Dr. Humberto Maturana since 1990.

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LEARNING LAB ROUND 3 — Thursday 15 September

3-1

Increasing Competence Facilitating Strategic Learning Through Inquiry
This session uses critical incidents to address the dilemmas facilitators face building and sustaining learning spaces that serve both the individual and the organisation. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Educators
Managers (senior and junior) from profit and non-profit sectors
Presenters
Sandra Hayes is an organisation and leadership development consultant specializing in collaborative conflict negotiation. She is a doctoral candidate in Adult Learning at Columbia University.
Lucia Alcántara's expertise is in capacity building and organisational development. She is currently completing her doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Columbia University.
Lyle Yorks is Associate Professor in the Department of Organisation and Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University. His work focuses on action learning and collaborative inquiry.

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3-2
Emergent Collective Learning in the Network-Centric Organisation
After an introduction to the theme, participants will experience a network-centric environment where game playing simulates a blend of competition and co-operation to achieve individual and team goals. A simulation called Go*Team, developed by the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, will be introduced. Participants and presenters will then reflect on the emergent learning at several levels. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
We would appreciate a wide range of people who have worked in organisations at all levels and are particularly interested in those who have heard of or have an interest in network-centric approaches to enhancing performance in complex settings through shared quality interaction between groups of people.
Presenters
Dr Helen Hasan, Associate Professor in Information Systems at Wollongong University, Australia, leads the government-funded cross-institutional Socio-technical Activity Research (STAR) group, which includes all presenters.
Dr Leoni Warne is a Senior Research Scientist in the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Canberra, leading a team working on Socio-Cultural and Learning Analysis research.
Dr Kate Crawford is director of Eviva, Sydney, leading a multidisciplinary research and development group that specialises in processes and technologies to enable emerging knowledge in innovative and complex settings.

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3-3
Innovating the way we Innovate
One division of Agilent Technologies Germany decided to establish a cross-functional taskforce to foster innnovative culture. 6 projects have been launched to create an appropriate environment. Innovation should become highest priority for everybody. Now the question is: how to keep the fire burning? Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Everybody who wants to increase innovative capabilities in a complex organisation. People who ask the question: what can we do to create an appropriate culture for innovation, what kind of individual behaviour, which leadership styles and also what processes are needed? Participants could be senior managers and managers from personnel departments. Ideal would be participants who tried a similar approach, this could be a basis for an ongoing network.
Presenters
Thomas Ege is a consultant and trainer in HR in charge of enriching Agilent's culture for innovation.
Thomas Jauch is a Business Process & Quality Manager of an Agilent business unit.
Joerg Schulz is a Business Controller at Agilent.

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3-4
Exploring the Applied Learning Process
 Review the basic principles of the new ALP, illustrated by several cases from Founding SoL practitioners; experience this approach by applying it in the session. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Managers
Practitioners
Change Consultants (both internal and independent)
Researchers
Students
Novices
Presenters
Jeff Clanon is Director, Partnership Development for SoL and founding consultant member. His experience in individual and organizational learning includes clinical psychologist, educator, organisation development consultant and business manager.
Jon Vogen is SoL ALP Process Committee Chairman and founding consultant member. He experience includes business management and organization development consulting.
Carol Gorelick teaches in the Executive MBP at Pace University. She is a founder of SOLUTIONS, a knowledge management consultancy. Carol is a SoL trustee and an active member of the ALP committee.

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3-5
Six Hat Cafe
We will explore a succession of questions for cafe rounds based on Edward DeBono's six thinking hats. Reflecting on our experience in GulfSoL as facilitators & organizers, join us to position your next cafe for success. This orientation is one of inquiry & sharing our photos and questions from cafes in the Gulf region. Full session description.
Presenters
Jim Davidson's quest in building a cafe is getting the context right, the room lighting, the ambience, the food, and of course the coffee perfect. We have been using the cafe process for the last 2 ½ years as a forum to foster openness and map our strategic journey.
Co-facilitator Alfred Hanner's aim is to get the cafe's process and the questions right.
Abdulkareem Al-Ramis (Kareem) is a graphic artist, who works to create the right images as they emerge from the conversation.
Ibrahim Iskandarani is a Saudi Aramco consultant with strong experience in the field of personal mastery.

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3-6
Positive Deviance: Learning on How Intractable Situations were Resolved
In this session, three members of the not-for-profit sector-from France, Eugen Brand; from Israel, Jona Rosenfeld; and from Germany, Reinhart Wolff-will describe how they successfully overcame "intractable" situations. In their presentation, they will use the methodology of retrospective "learning from success" and present what they did in "actionable" terms. Eugen Brand will describe how, as a member of ATD Fourth World Movement for Families Living in Extreme Poverty and Exclusion, he enabled a long time homeless family of five to obtain public housing. Jona Rosenfeld will present an Arab high school that succeeded in significantly reducing student violence over a period of three years. Reinhart Wolff will present actions related to dialogic discourse that enabled multi-problem families to move beyond their impasse which had perpetuated their suffering. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Those with a passion for overcoming intractable situations
• Those interested in what excluded populations have to offer their communities
Presenters
Eugen Brand is of Swiss nationality, a teacher, husband, and father of three children. He joined the International Movement ATD Fourth World volunteer corps in 1972 and has participated in numerous projects of ATD Fourth World throughout Europe and North and South America. Before rejoining the International Center in 1986 to work alongside Alwyne de Vos van Steenwijk for the international public relations of the movement, Mr. Brand was the national coordinator for the movement in Switzerland. Mr. Brand spent three years in Bolivia where he contributed to the development of the branch of ATD Fourth World in Latin America. Since 1999 he has been back at the International Center where he holds the responsibility of Director General of the International Movement.
Jona M. Rosenfeld, PhD, believes the mission of social work is to serve the most excluded in our midst by initiating transformative transactions between them and social institutions entrusted with serving them. His work and life was significantly influenced when, 40 years ago, he became acquainted with P. Joseph Wresinski and Mme. Alwyne de Vos van Steenwijk from the International Movement ATD Fourth World of families living in extreme poverty and exclusion. Jona is a Professor (Emeritus), at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is also a Senior Advisor for the Unit for Learning from Success, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute.
Prof. Reinhart Wolff, PhD, is a Professor of Social Work at Alice Solomon University in Berlin. He is engaged in contributing to the effectiveness of social welfare institutions by initiating dialogue amongst multiple partners. One of the hallmarks of his work is related to serving children in trouble by collaborating with their parents.

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3-7
The Columbia Case Study: NASA's Culture and the Invisible Side of Safety
Using the 2003 Columbia accident, we will explore confronting/resolving learning disabilities in public sector organisations and provide a forum for those with similar experiences. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Participants from:
• The public sector
• Operational environments
• Contractor workforces
• Organisations responsible for safety and quality, (e.g., medical, transportation, manufacturing communities).
Presenters
Peter Pruyn was an astronaut team trainer and space shuttle systems instructor at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for the last four years.
Donna Blankmann has been an accident investigator, safety instructor, and social learning advocate at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the past 23 years.
Jim Wetherbee is a former Director of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and has flown in space six times.

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3-8
Improvisations on Learning Histories
A Gallery Walk along improvisations on the process and presentation of Learning Histories. You will see illustrations of the design-process, creative forms for "the document", like cartoons, interesting analyzing methods, dissemination activities as Large Group Interventions. In this lab we will make a new composition on the wall together by discussing the value for innovation. For additional information, please visit www.learninghistories.net. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Everybody who is interested in participative methods to stimulate reflection and change in organizations in a natural way: by story telling and discussing patterns.
Presenters
Tonnie van der Zouwen is an independent consultant in collaborative methods for Organisation Development who holds master's degrees in Ecology and Change Management.

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3-9
Entrepreneurial Success of the RedStarGroup (RSG) as a Private Enterprise in China and the Challenge of Sustainable Innovation
Using Organisational Learning as a Strategy to Create the Future Red StarGroup is a private company in China that uses learning as its primary strategy and vision to create sustainable innovation. Red StarGroup's 18 years of entrepreneurial success will set the context and create a global learning lab where ideas will emerge to generate interactive learning and insights. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Consultants, Researchers, and Practitioners interested in the rise of private enterprises in China and how they have experienced accelerated growth by adopting organisational learning as a sustainable strategy.
Presenters
Dr. Kai Sung, Professor at School of Management, National Central University, and visiting professor to over ten top universities in China. Dr. Kai Sung has been bridging collaboration between Universities in the greater China area over the past ten years. He is a pioneer of creative management and leadership development using the latest technology in teaching and learning and communication. Dr. Kai Sung is a Global Steward of KINSoL.
Mr. Che, Jianxin, founder of the RSG, is more than a carpenter in his learning and leadership journey. In 18 years he has grown the company from a small furniture shop (with less than 100 dollars startup loan) to a chain of stores and shopping malls in China.
Stephen C. Meng is a Managing Consultant with Leadership Dynamics International. Stephen Meng has been active in China through International Business & Economics Educational since 1988. He is a global-China steward and bridge in building healthy, sustainable, character learning communities & networks.

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3-10
Learning Organisations for a Learning Society
How can we illuminate the collective blind spot of different organizational logics concerning business and societal perspective - and support a learning society? It is common sense that the world needs systems thinking, the societal perspective, the look at the whole thing. In practice though it cannot be denied, that it is fragmentation and business perspective that is fostered. We actually are experiencing the transfer of old and new management concepts from the business sector to all the others - often causing confusion, loss of identity and undesired side effects. And there are increasing initiatives to strengthen the societal perspective in the business sector (e.g. ecological certification, Corporate Social Responsibility or Gender Mainstreaming) - in practice, however often overruled by other priorities and leaving the involved persons disillusioned. We would like to use the experience of the participants and the dynamic of dialogue to focus on questions like:
What are the forces chasing us all together into a society that in major parts we don't want this way?
What do we as consultants, managers and politicians need to foster the look on the whole thing?
How can we - as a learning network - strengthen the dialogue between the sectors and find settings for a learning society? Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Practitioners and consultants who work for public, NGO or business organizations.
Presenters
Carolin Gebel is a Consultant for Organisation and Human Resource Development, supporting People and Organisations in developing their specific strategies and potentials for a sustainable future.
Silvia Nossek is a Consultant for Organisation Development, specialised in context-sensitive solutions of concrete organisational issues and the design of communication and decision processes.

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3-11
Women Leading Sustainability: A New Story for this Era
Discover how women's ways of thinking are creating a new“story” for Sustainability. Listening and reflecting to each other in Dialogue circles inspires powerful action. Full session description.
Presenters
Madeline Nold is the Founder, Director, Creative Action Associates with over 20 years experience in consulting. Corporate and international workshops, leadership programs, executive coaching. Founding SoL consultant member & WLS member.
Sara Schley is the Co-founder & co-steward of SoL Sustainability Consortium. Co-founder of WLS and founding SoL member.
Carol Gorelick is an Associate Professor of Management. Over 25 years with corporate sector. SoL trustee, co-chair of SoL research committee. Committed to cross-sector collaboration with education focus.

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LEARNING LAB ROUND 4— Friday 16 September

4-1
Learning to Manage Complexity
This presentation will demonstrate the use and development of complexity based tools and methods. The discussion will involve a case study of Westpac Banking Corporation. Full session description.
Presenters
Dr. Robert Kay is the Head of Strategic Thinking, Westpac Banking Corporation. He has published widely in the areas of autopoietic and social theory.
Bruce McKenzie is the Managing Director of Systemic Development Associates. He designs and facilitates activities that introduce systemic thinking to achieve organisational improvement.
Dave Snowden is the Founder of the Cynefin Centre a network of researchers and practitioners developing tools and techniques for working with complexity in organisations

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4-2
Opportunities and Challenges of Building Sustainable Organisational Learning Communities and Networks in China: A Systemic Socio-Eco-Nomic Developmental Approach towards Comprehensive Harmony
Discovering the keys for creating healthy, sustainable learning communities will have important implications for China and the world in a global 21st century. 80 participants. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• SoL global network fractals
• Those involved and experienced in organisational learning communities
• Those who care about the sustainable organisational learning communities in greater China area and global China integration
• Those interested in the culture and soci-eco-nomic transform and innovation in China.
Presenters
Mr. Zhaoliang Qiu is a Ph.D candidate of Nankai University and founder of the most active online community on LO in Chinese. He is the author/translator of five books.
Prof. Kai Sung is a Professor of Management at School of National Central University, Taiwan, China.
Mrs. Lan Li is the Deputy Director of Personnel Exchange & Training Center of DRC, Secretary-general of China Entrepreneur Survey System, a distinguished expert in research on the development of entrepreneurs.
Mr. Stephen Meng is a global China bridge and steward for creating healthy, sustainable, learning, character communities and networks since 1988.
Mrs. Yicheng Kang is the Deputy General Manager of JAC, an distinguished learning company in China.

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4-3
Leadership and Organisational Self-Reflection
In this session we describe “research stories” that explore the themes of 21st Century Leadership, Innovation and Informal Networks, and Value Creation, with emphasis on how the methodology of Social Action Research dynamically links the building of leadership and organisational capabilities. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Managers
• Consultants
• Resarchers
• Students
• Those interested in leadership development, organisational transformation and whole-systems approaches to enterprises.
Presenters
Manfred Mack is an independant management consultant based in Paris. He is a founding member of SoL-France with responsibility for research activities. He has developed a systemic enterprise model which he terms “Full Value Creation”, the subject of his most recent book.
Marie-Aline Bloch holds a PhD in micro-biology. She is Executive Vice President in charge of Planification and Programs at Institut Pasteur, a corporate member of SoL-France. She plays an important role in how major “transverse” research programs are organised and managed at Institut Pasteur.
Dr Daniel Belet is a professor at the Business School of La Rochelle and associate researcher at the Bordeaux Business School. He is also an independant management and organisational development consultant, author of a book on building learning oriented companies and member of SoL-France.
Jacques Chaize is President of Danfoss Water Valves, a division of Danfoss International. He is an active and leading member of the French Employers' Association (MEDEF) and President of SoL-France.

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4-4
Playing with Paradox
A group experiment in Self-Organizing. Participants are invited to engage Hand, Head and Heart, and explore together how patterns emerge in the dynamics of fractal generation. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Participants who have interest in exploring the paradoxical nature of human organizing
• Educators interested in introducing complexity to the younger generations
Presenters
Judy (Meisels) Tal, PhD, is a researcher, educator and facilitator in the field of organisational development., and founder of LCL-LearningCycles to promote sustainable learning. Until 1995 she practiced mathematics (Graph Theory and Algorithms) in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University.
Tova Averbuch, MSc., is a practicing organisational and managerial consultant, focusing on using and teaching life enhancing methodologies and large group interventions. Tova is owner and co- founder of "Oganim- opening space in organisations".
Michal Fox facilitates and coaches in the field of organizational development. Michal's approach connects between self transformation and social transformation in three sectors: Civil, Public and Private. She is an active member of the Global Peace Makers' Organization.
Beny Sade, MA, is an organisational and managerial consultant in the field of behavioral science and organisational development. Since 1984, Beny has been authoritative for EFQM, and a prescript Mediator.
Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D., is the founding Executive Director of Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Institute. She works with individuals and organizations in the midst of change to help them see clearly and act couragously in complex and unpredictable situations. She is author of Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools, co-author of Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science, and editor of Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human System Dynamics.

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4-5
Beyond Organisations – In Search of Alternative Positive Structures
Stories. Fun. Crazy. Action. Dialogue. Music. Images. Learning. Journey. Concrete outcome. Something to Remember. Together. Interested? Join us. Max participants 50. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Young leaders
• Social entrepreneurs
• Interested participants regardless of their background
Presenters
Timo Karjalainen, director of LearningHouse, is coaching entrepreneurs and leaders in London. Timo is an active member of SoL and the Pioneers of Change.
Danny Gal, organisational psychologist, is designing and facilitating learning processes that help organisations to change.
Mark Hodge, director of The Hub, inspires and supports a multi-disciplinary collective to realise imaginative initiatives for a radically better world.

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4-6
Sustainability Games and the use of Games for Organisational Learning
We play 2 different climate board games and discuss about the experience. Do we learn differently by playing games? Does fun stimulate learning processes? Participants are encouraged to read the gaming instructions here before the start of the session. There is a restricted number of seats available. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Educators
• Practitioners of organisational learning
• Researchers
Presenters
Hannah Förster is a member of the working group GFT at PIK.
Edna Pasher is founding partner and CEO of Edna Pasher PhD.& Associates.
Nadine Pratt is a member of SoL.

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4-7
Reflections on Diversity in a Changing World
Through dialogue and sharing our own experiences, we will explore how learning organisation practices can enable people to work together effectively across national, cultural, and racial boundaries. Maximum number of participants is 50 people. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Practitioners
Consultants
Presenters
Robert Hanig is a Vice President for Dialogos, Inc. He has worked with Peter Senge and is a consultant member of the SoL. He has written various articles as well as contributed to books such as The Dance of Change (Senge et al, 1999, Doubleday). He has lectured throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia on leadership, applied creativity, communication, and personal and organizational effectiveness.
Dorothy Hamachi Berry is Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. IFC's senior management has been leading a major change effort to improve organizational performance through learning organization practices and disciplines.
Dorian Baroni, HR, BP Group People Processes
Andreas Priestland, Senior Advisor, BP Organisation Capability.

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4-8
Transforming our Workplaces: Lessons from the Festivals of the Caribbean and the Americas
Learn to apply lessons from the arts and festivals so that people would choose to give their best work and experience joy, meaning and fulfillment. Max participants Fifty (50) participants. Full session description.
Presenters
Roosevelt Finlayson is a personal and organisational transformation specialist with expertise in - organisational celebration, the human dimensions of change, the creative process and strategic dialogue.
Michael Diggiss is an architect and management lecturer. He focuses on the connection between purpose, passion and productivity and the creation of an empowered organisation environment.

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4-9
Developing co-leadership skills for effective multi-sector partnerships
This session is a joint inquiry into how leaders can accelerate their own development by learning to partner with diverse leaders across the public, private and civil society sectors, in order to solve some of the world's toughest problems. Max participants 36. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Practitioners, consultants and researchers from all sectors and countries who are interested in deepening their understanding and sharing their experience of cross-sector partnerships and collaborative leadership development.
Presenter
Alain Gauthier Based in San Francisco and Paris, Alain Gauthier is a consultant, facilitator, and educator who focuses on developing inner capacities for partnering and learning among executive leaders Executive Director of Core Leadership Development (alain@coreleadership.com), he is associate author of the book "Action Inquiry" The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership.

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4-10
Innovation INDEX Indicator - Case study
In this workshop we will present the innovation INDEX indicator case study and our findings and recommendations to guide you through our process of quantifying and developing environments that support, trigger, and encourage innovation. We will also present and discuss best practices and recommendations for future innovation consulting work. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Everybody interested in Innovation
Presenters
Gerry Wood, Gloria Dabiri

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LUNCH AND LEARN Thursday 15 September

LU1
Francisco Varela: How Do We Find Knowledge?
Creating knowledge is still an enigma. This we will explore. In a film taken a few weeks before his death Francisco Varela shares his views on this issue. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
Practitioners, researchers and capacity builders who want to dig deeper into questions about knowledge and who want to experience Francisco Varela, Dalai Lama, Evan Thomson, Heinz von Foerster, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and their thinking on cognition.
Presenter
Christoph Mandl is Professor at the School of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna and Director of Mandl, Luethi & Partner. He was Founding Chairperson of the Council of SoL Austria.

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LU2
The Tao of Learning Taiwan - Use Complex Generative Processes to Presence Taiwan's Future
The CGP model has provided the best way to facilitate Taiwan government to be learning organizations. It's hoped that those experience will be found useful in the world. Full session description.
Presenters
King Kong Lin, David Hwang, & Percy Shih, the founder and the performer of CGP model, coordinators of the societies of organizational learning in Taiwan, have facilitated Taiwan government to be learning organizations since 2002.

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LU3
Room for Love in Organisations
What happens if we start talking about love and organisations? Through play and reflection this session will focus on how to bring forth love in organisations. 40-50 participants. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
All are welcome.
Presenters
Anna Haugaard has worked as a process leader with groups as diverse as the Danish Air Force, Hare Krishna temple leaders, South African youth and Danish teenagers.
Britt Bargfeldt has worked in multiple fields from non-profit orgs. to the Danish media business. At the moment working as a production manager at Titoonic, a game development company.
Ida Tin works with developing tools for knowledge based organisations, such as learning games and other products for reflection and learning.
Johanna Nordtröm is a KaosPilot, 26 years, has worked as project manager in The Natural Step Foundation with environmental education for kids, now living in Chile, diplomacy student at The Matriztic Institute, threelingual translator.

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LU4
The Critical Steps of Entrepreneurship: Birth and Growth
This session helps you to accelerate in the path of entrepreneurship - First to get started, and then to grow up. Maximum number of participants is 30-40 persons. Full session description.
Presenters
Ville Handolin, is a PhD candidate on non-material rewarding at the Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology.
Petri Lehtipuu is an entrepreneur at Novetos Oy, a consulting and coaching company based in Helsinki, Finland.

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LU5
Causa Nostra - How Knowledge Management Induces Organizational Learning - and Vice Versa
Evoluting Innovation offers a process in order to integrate market strategies and organisational development into a system of ongoing innovation management, based on creating and using knowledge. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• SMEs
• senior managers
• potential customers
Presenters
Evoluting Innovation will be presented by 4 presenters reflecting a well balanced field of experiences:
Fritz Bastarz, Business Consultant, Vienna/Austria
Patrick Halek, Management Trainer, Vienna/Austria
Peter Hexel, Business Coach, Vienna/Austria
Christian Stary, University Professor, Linz/Austria

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LU6
Confidence in Organisational Consulting?
There is a dissonance in today`s organisational consulting that ultimately hinders peak and harmonious performense. The crisis is caused by a lack of tranparency in the basic assumptions and concepts, as well as a lack of confidence. The findings of an ongoing, explorative study with clients and consultants of the public sector will be discussed. Full session description.
Who Should Attend
• Managers, executives and staff from companies, governments and non-profit organisations
• Consultants
• Researchers
Presenters
Mag. Marlies Garbsch is a researcher at the Department Organisational Development-Organizing Public Goods, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Education an Research, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, consultant and member of the Austrian Society of Group Dynamics and Organisational Development.

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LU7
Systems Thinking in 21st Century Schools
The world becomes a global village and needs systems citizens (Barry Richmond) who are able to understand complex problems, who can both focus on details and seeing the big picture in order to create a sustainable world. But sustainability is a by-product in the 21st century schools. It goes hand in hand with the growing capacity of thinking systemically. In this session we will discuss success stories, examples of struggle to change the educational system, and dialogue about how systems thinking can support this educational change globally.
Who Should Attend
Everybody who's interested in education and sustainable development in profit and non-profit organisations
Presenters
Guus Geisen has a history as a teacher and principal in special education for almost 20 years. For five years he has been working at a Educational Service Center and now he supports school development as an independent consultant. All his work is connected to organisational learning. He facilitates training and courses for teachers, coaches and principals, supported with additional personal coaching.

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LU8
Developing an Instrument to Assess the Learning Capabilities of Schools
This session aims to develop an instrument to assess the learning capabilities of schools according to Peter Senge's framework of organisational learning, which include personal mastery, mental models, team learning, shared vision and systems thinking. Maximum number of participants allowed in this session is: 30
Who should attend
• Educators
• Researchers
• School Administrators
• Those interested in the application of the five disciplines of organisational learning
Presenter
Nicholas Sun-keung Pang is Associate Professor at Department of Educational Administration and Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is also the Leader of the School Development and Evaluation Team (SDET).

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LU9
Communities as Learning Organisms: Opportunity for Sustainability?
Join us in exploring how learning can strengthen whole systems approaches to sustainability in communities. This dialogue will include key concepts and international case studies, with a focus on community change processes towards sustainability. A maximum of 30 participants is preferable.
Who Should Attend
• A diverse group of stakeholders (government, businesses, NGOs, universities, independent contractors and civil society)
• SoL European Sustainability Group and SoL Sustainability Consortium members
Presenters
Josephine Brennan is a Sustainability Strategist of South African/Irish descent. Josephine's Key question is "how to unite efforts in developed and developing country communities to reinforce momentum towards global sustainability?"
Heather Worosz, holds an MBA and an MS in Sustainability. A Canadian, Heather's core question is How to pull from a positive vision rather than pushing from fear and crisis?”
Paulo Bento Maffei de Souza. Sustainability strategist. Brazilian. Key question: How ethical is it that human rights go beyond other living being's rights?

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LU10
The Emergence of a SoL Fractal and The Breadth and Depth of Relationships in Learning Leveraging Depth of Relationships in Smaller Communities to Create Knowledge and Confidence
In this session we will hear stories from different SoL fractals about the journey they are experiencing, including some of the success stories and challenges they face.
Who Should Attend
Everyone who is interested in the development of the local fractals of the SoL global network.
Presenters
Jona Rosenfeld is Professor (emeritus) of Social Work, at the Unit of Learning From Success Myers-JDC Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem, Israel (formerly The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Danny Gal is an organisational psychologist who designs and facilitates learning processes that help organisations and communities to change
Thomas Cosgrove

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LU11
The Abduction from the Harem to the New World: Music, Change, and what this all means for Learning Organisations
How can musical methods of interaction influence borders in territorially-organized companies? A group of no more than about 50 participants are invited to experience and discuss methods in this session with us.
Who Should Attend
Others who have faced the challenge of working effectively across the divides in large divided organisations.
Presenters
Stefan Gueldenberg is an assistant professor in the department of strategic management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and a research member of SoL.
Lorenz Huber has studied musicology, conducting and instrumental teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts and the Konservatorium in Vienna.
Anne Herbert is working with and researching the challenge of bridging academic and business practices in one university which owns a company.

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LU12
Public Space - Paradise Lost or Silent Desire? Building Public Sector Learning Organizations
How can we shape public institutions in times of complexity and fading common ground? Join us on an experiential journey to explore the future of public interests on an individual, group/organizational and community level. Democracies thrive only where there is a healthy interface between the public, non-profit and for profit sectors. We will explore our challenges in attempting to develop public sector leaders who can co-create learning organizations and have the capacity to make collaboration possible.
Who Should Attend
• Participants with a background and/or experience in small and mid-sized communities (e.g. representatives of public sector, NGOs (civil society), SME, community leaders).
• Large system practitioners and researchers with a focus on social change/sociology
Presenters
Birgit Radl supports public organizations on their transition from traditional bureaucracies to modern institutions. Main interests include leadership, change and systems thinking. Holds an MBA (Vienna) and an MPA (Harvard).
Christof Harrich is a consultant with a focus on change management, organizational development and strategy, mostly in the public sector. He is currently completing a postgraduate program in coaching & social psychology.
Georgie Bishop is an organizational Learning Program Manager and Performance Consultant. She works with all levels of government to develop leaders and high performing public sector organizations, and is co-founder of the SOL Public Sector Consortium.
Anna Doroshaw is an internal practitioner for organizational learning and leadership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair, and co-founder of SoL Public Sector Consortium and champion for high performing government agencies.

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LU13
A Learning History Case Study and Experience and Paths to be a Learning Organisation
A Learning History Case Study
This session involves the dissemination of an extract from a learning history with a focus on change, learning and shared vision. The session will involve a brief introduction to the methodology and host organisation, and critical reflection from members of the SOL Australia. Issues such as guiding ideas, values, vision, current reality, strategy, leadership and resistance to change are addressed within the learning history extract and participants will have the opportunity to explore those issues which are of interest.
Paths to be a Learning Organisation
Reflection and discussion based on two case studies: MONYX and LABEIN. Guiding ideas, values, vision, current reality, strategy, leadership and resistance to change. Trying to understand our change dynamics and paradoxes.
Who Should Attend
• Private and public companies involved in organisational learning within their
• organisations
• Research and technology organisations
• Public authorities promoting innovation policies
• The perspective of senior managers would be very much appreciated
Presenters
Javier Ruiz is Director of the "Regional Development" Unit of LABEIN. Javier is currently focused on "Regional Knowledge Management," including programmes to support innovation capabilities and competence development in SMEs, ICT advanced tools and content development. He is also interested in new models to understand knowledge dynamics regionally and globally in the socioeconomic field. Javier has co-authored two books, more than forty articles and papers in international and national technical magazines about innovation, business, and quality management. He acts as evaluator in different RTD Programmes at regional, national, and European level.
Andrew O'Brien

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LU14
Sports as Leverage Point for Change Towards Sustainability
Complex problems at the global level and systemic social change around the world require new leadership skills, capabilities, and types of organizations. With the Olympic Movement as real-world reference, join us as we explore new techniques (backcasting) and organizational types (groups of purpose) to address wicked problems and support socio-economic sustainability.
Who Should Attend
• Current and potential sponsors of the Olympics
• Sustainability practitioners and people looking to leverage change in large organisations
• Systems thinkers and those with experience in large organisation transformation
Presenters
Mary Ann Allison, PhD, is a futurist who conducts research into the nature of community and social change; she works with businesses, governments, and NGOs.
Birte Berlemann and Mitch Rhodes are Master graduates in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability. Birte is a student from Germany, her learning focuses on management and communication for sustainable development. Mitch is a Canadian, professional accountant and author. He's sat on the Board of numerous NGOs.

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LU15
Creating a Sustainable Future - a World Cafe to Explore our Most Important Questions on the Theme of Sustainability
In this session, we invite participants to explore questions or insights from the preceding Plenary on Sustainability. The session will be hosted by members of the SoL European Sustainability Group and SoL Sustainability Consortium, using the World Cafe process, which is both simple and effective at bringing people together around questions that matter.
Who Should Attend
Anyone interested in sustainability or who wants to continue conversations initiated in the preceding plenary session.
Presenters
Edna Pasher is founder and CEO of Edna Pasher & Associates which specializes in strategic renewal processes in organizations. She is also a founder member of the SoL European Sustainability Group and the person who brought the World Cafe to Israel
Sara Schley is founding partner of Seed Systems, which promotes sustainable development in business through application of organisational learning and scientific conditions for sustainability. She is also co-steward of the SoL Sustainability Consortium.
Penny Kennington is Convenor of the SoL European Sustainability Group

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LU16
SoL lunch coordinated by Sherry Immediato

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Special Early Morning Session

Sabbatical pianissimo
This session is devoted to an extended period of silence which will allow us to leave our habitual thinking behind and move on to, and learn in, vistas new. The ideas are very closely related to those put forward in the book Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future.
Presenter
Oliver Sellen: Personal: Fifty three, married, children, cat, kind, tenacious, worrier, encourager, completor.
Intention: To become all that I am, for myself, and others.

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