Otto Scharmer

Senior Lecturer; Founding Chair, MIT, Presencing Inst.

Senior Lecturer, MIT; Founding Chair, Presencing Institute. Chairs the MIT IDEAS programme and helps groups of diverse stakeholders from business, government and civil society to innovate at the level of the whole system. Introduced the concept of "presencing" in bestselling books, Theory U and Presence. Co-Author of a new book, Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-system to Ecosystem Economies, which focuses on transforming business, society and self.

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