ODA Breakfast Event

How do you expand your potential to respond wisely no matter what is happening around you or your organization? 

This session will briefly introduce Human Systems (HSD), a field of theory and practice that develops adaptive capacity so individuals and groups can find options for action when prediction and control are impossible. HSD has been used by organizations and individuals worldwide wherever complex situations create intractable issues.

To make this session your own

Please bring a challenge or an opportunity that you find difficult to make progress on and that you can share with other participants. During our time together, you will have an opportunity to apply an HSD method to your real-world issue.  

Join us to sample a learning experience for a new way of perceiving, thinking, and acting in organizations and daily life. 

Our facilitators:

Monica Leon

Monica is an experienced OD practitioner, facilitator and coach who believes in tapping into the collective wisdom to co-create. A strategic thinker by nature, she specializes in sticky issues, complex systems, and innovative work practices that intertwine vertical development and achieving sustainable outcomes. These are a set of practices that expand the mindset capacity of individuals and organisations in having greater choice and outcome-focused flexibility.

Monica uses a range of frameworks and techniques to design and facilitate programs that create the context and experiences for her clients to gain new insights and make new connections that support them thrive and sustain the changes that they, and their organisations, are looking for.

Monica holds a BS with honors in Economics and International Studies from Wilson College, an MBA with distinction from UFSIA, Belgium, and a Master of Science in Organisation Development from Pepperdine University, USA. She is an ACC ICF Coach and has been a certified Senior and Global Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & GPHR) since 2008. She has worked, lived, and studied in four continents.

Wendy Morris

Wendy C. Morris is an internationally recognized facilitator of learning and leadership development, especially for leading in complexity. Wendy has designed more than 500 leadership development and engagement programs, while teaching at premier leadership centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Wendy works with 3 global networks for change: the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, the Presencing Institute, and the Art of Hosting community. As a strategic thinking partner, she asks generative questions that enable her clients to find clarity that leads to wise action. She views training and leadership development as vehicles for leaders to become more agile, adaptive, effective, and whole.

Her experience spans a range of industries including agriculture and food systems, arts and culture, financial services, government, health care systems, higher education, non-governmental and non-profit organizations, and social innovation. She has a Master’s Degree in Human Development and is affiliated with two research and training centers at the University of Minnesota. Her work has received 25 awards for excellence and is informed by 19,000 hours of mindfulness and embodiment practice.