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February 2, 2023
Everyone I meet feels unsettled about the future. Climate change and economic instability, personal health and racial justice, global pandemic and political upheaval drive conversations and distort dreams of what is to come. How do we prepare for a future we cannot predict or control? Adaptive Action! WHAT are the current patterns and what possibilities hide there? SO WHAT can our collective experience and intelligence teach us? NOW WHAT are options for action today to create the tomorrow we desire?
Join the HSD Global Community to explore what is possible when we: see patterns clearly, seek to understand, and act with courage to transform turbulence and uncertainty into possibility for all.
August 6, 2020
When you cannot predict or control the environment, the only way to thrive is to see and respond to what IS—whatever it is. Success in an uncertain future is not determined by internal skills and choices. It is not driven by environments and circumstances. True, sustainable, success relies on the fit between external situations and internal choices.
This session explores three systemic features (sensitive, responsive, robust) that lead to success in a “fit for function” world.
Build Adaptive Capacity
February 4, 2016
Glenda Eoyang explores the cause of intractable challenges and identifies three conditions for finding your way through the intractability today and tomorrow: Adaptive Action, Pattern Logic, and Inquiry.
Teaching & LearningPlan in Uncertainty
December 4, 2014
What? challenges are woven into assessing complex learning? So what? evidence of those patterns affects HSD Professional Certification? Now what? have we done to respond? And Now what? questions remain?
Business & IndustryLead in Complexity
August 1, 2013
Glenda Eoyang leads an exploration of entrepreneurship, from the point of view of HSD. In doing so, she poses the question, "What would it be like if entrepreneur were a verb that guides behavior rather than a noun that describes it?"
Build Adaptive Capacity
Looking forward is entering into what does not yet exist. It can be easy when we are in an environment we can control. But we often find it difficult to make decisions and determine actions.
November 5, 2020
Some people find meaning in the daily rush of information. They can focus and concentrate. They find the needles in haystacks and diamonds in the rough. While some people have a gift for meaning making and seeing the bigger picture. Either is an asset, but the latter is less understood in today’s complex system of big data, conflicting perspectives, and competing tensions.
In this session, learn tools and techniques as you navigate your way to meaning in a sea of data.