Hosting Difference

In my career, as a Chief Executive Officer in a large nonprofit organization, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in meetings with my counterparts around the world. Forty cultures all in one place. Forty leaders common in their vision. And forty different worlds...
World Café at the European Commission

World Café at the European Commission

(local time in Brussels) The European Commission has used the World Café extensively over many years as part of a participatory engagement strategy to impact social issues, community relationships, internal decisions, and develop conversational leadership within the...

Day 3: Conversation Space Debrief

At the end of the conference, Conversation Space hosts gathered with Ginny and Janice from Pegasus, who had organized much of the conference organizers and supported this space in being created, in debriefing about the Conversation Space experience. We started by...

Day 3: Final Keynote and Closing

In the conference’s last session, Peter Senge’s keynote Collaboration: The Human Face of Systems Thinking, the founding chair of SoL (Society for Organizational Learning) answers the question of how this conference grew into being. After some reflection he...