The Conference Experience

Getting the most out of this conference involves not just the number of sessions you attend, but your own intention to be fully involved with other participants and the overall conference environment. We’ve called upon some skilled co-creators to help make that easier for you:

Weaving
Two experienced systems thinkers provide weaving and thematic integration throughout the program, framing and contextualizing the sessions to enable deeper learning and understanding:

A researcher and systems educator, Linda Booth Sweeney has a doctorate from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and is the coauthor of The Systems Thinking Playbook and the author of When a Butterfly Sneezes.

 

A program director with the Sustainability Institute, Drew Jones is a coach, consultant, and teacher who helps individuals and teams solve problems by applying systems approaches, most recently in the areas of corporate sustainability, global climate change, land use policy, and public health. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth and a M.S. from M.I.T.

Graphic Facilitation

Michelle Boos-Stone is founder and principal of Gecko Graphics, a firm specializing in corporate Mindscaping™, the process of transforming ideas and concepts into powerful pictures, words, and key icons. As a presenter or speaker is talking, Michelle captures the “flow” of the session in bold, colorful images, while synthesizing thoughts and information, to help stimulate visual learners to understand processes and clearly see interrelationships. She is also a consultant and trainer and has done extensive work with companies in organizational learning, communication, culture change, and leadership development.

Music and Slam Poetry

Tim Merry and Marc Durkee distill the essence of the opening and closing keynote presentations with spontaneous Brit slam poetry and groovalicous Canadian guitar.