Fourteen MIT Sloan faculty members to follow on Twitter
New Twitter list collects insight and ideas from more than 40 professors, lecturers, and research scientists
Faculty
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter coauthored with Peter Senge and others). His most recent book, The Essentials of Theory U, summarizes the core principles and applications of awareness-based systems change.
In 2015, he co-founded the MITx u.lab and in 2020 the GAIA journey (Global Activation of Intention and Action), both of which promote a worldwide ecosystem of transformational change. Most recently, he and United Nations colleagues cohosted the Global Dialogues on Transforming Systems. With his colleagues he co-created the Action Learning Lab for change makers across UN agencies, as well as a set of SDG Leadership Labs that build capacity for leading transformational change.
Otto earned a PhD in economics from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. He is a member of the UN Learning Advisory Council for the 2030 Agenda, the World Future Council, and the Club of Rome’s High-Level 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission. He has won the Jamieson Prize for Teaching Excellence at MIT and the European Leonardo Corporate Learning Award. In 2021 he received the Elevating Humanity Award from the Organizational Development Network.
For more information visit www.ottoscharmer.com and www.presencing.org
Scharmer, Otto. SpreadLove in Organizations, February 2022.
Interviewed by Andrew Keen. Keen On, November 2020.
Scharmer, Otto. Field of the Future BlogMedium, December 2018.
Scharmer, Otto. Medium, November 2018.
Interviewed by Karun Cowpe. Globalactive Podcast, August 2018.
Scharmer, Otto. Indian Management, August 2018.
New Twitter list collects insight and ideas from more than 40 professors, lecturers, and research scientists
"Because our planetary emergency is already so fragile, each of us needs to hold and protect the flame by holding it close to our heart."
"Putinism is not entirely new. It's manifesting on the geopolitical stage something that we have seen before in smaller contexts."
Theory U reveals systemic forces impacting the way people work … to help people practice the art of leading from what's possible …
"Is this the moment when we should articulate the future we want to create with much more radical clarity?"