About the Institute for Evolutionary LeadershipInstitute for Evolutionary LeadershipI4EL_d3283718-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9The Institute for Evolutionary Leadership (IEL) is an emerging community of practice that develops and supports leaders for conscious social evolution towards a just, sustainable, and flourishing world. Our approach is accessible, action-oriented, and grounded in solid academic and philosophical traditions represented by Martin Heidegger, Humberto Maturana, Buckminster Fuller, Jonas Salk, Tony Fry, Fernando Flores, and other evolutionary thinkers. Our work builds on the idea that the world we live in is a product of human design. Each of us participates in the design process, but most of us are not aware of what we design, of how our ideas, words, and actions are influenced by and at the same time influence various complex systems. At the IEL we help leaders across cultures, sectors, and levels of institutional power cultivate this awareness and acquire knowledge, skills, and capacities they need to consciously redesign worldviews, cultures, and institutions for a more just, sustainable, and flourishing world.The Institute for Evolutionary Leadership was co-founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Manuel Manga and Fyodor Ovchinnikov and it currently has the capacity to serve English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Mandarin speaking leaders across regions, sectors, and levels of institutional power. Martin HeideggerHumberto MaturanaBuckminster FullerJonas SalkTony FryFernando FloresManuel MangaCo-Founder -- Manuel is a co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership. He brings a wealth of experience in leadership development, strategic conversations, team building, systems thinking, organizational learning, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability, working with such organizations as Fair Trade USA, UNDP, USAID, World Bank, Anglo American, Allianz, Conoco, Cemex, Chrysler, Grupo Maseca, Givaudan, BankBoston, Ben & Jerry's, Oxfam, CARE, Plan International, Import Products, EPA, Herman Miller, State Street Bank, Westinghouse, Genzyme, and NYDEC. He has used his extraordinary experience and insights to develop the concept and model of Evolutionary Leadership -- a valuable resource for leaders committed to building a just, sustainable and flourishing world. Manuel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanistic Psychology from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Education in Social Psychology from Boston University. He studied with Humberto Maturana and Fernando Flores, pioneers in cognition, communication, and management. He has studied leadership with Ronald Heifetz, and learning organizations with Peter Senge. He is a member of The Society for Organizational Learning. He was an adjunct faculty in the Leadership for Change program at Boston College for 10 years.Fyodor OvchinnikovCo-Founder -- Fyodor is a co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership. As participatory process designer, consultant, and facilitator he worked with local and international clients including UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, California Institute for Integral Studies, Institute of Noetic Sciences, National Dialogue Network, Conversation Collaborative, Transition US, Impact Hub Bay Area, Ambassadors of Hope and Opportunity, the City of San Jose, Citymart, Uptima Business Bootcamp, T2 Venture Creation, BayBucks, and Empowerment Works. Prior experience also includes curriculum design and teaching at Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as founding and running the Center for Intercultural Communication through which he educated 200+ executives, entrepreneurs, and business professionals in cultural intelligence. Fyodor has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Asian and African Studies, both with honors, from Lomonosov Moscow State University where he studied resilience of complex socioeconomic systems of Asian and African countries. He has also studied team dynamics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Business Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and social innovation through courses and workshops offered by the Presencing Institute, the Society for Organizational Learning, the Art of Hosting Fellowship, and other communities of practice. Fyodor is a member of the Stanford Executive Circle, the In2In:Thinking Network, and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation. He also serves as Director of Practitioner Empowerment with the Academy of Management Practice Theme Committee.Antoine MooreAntoine co-designs and co-facilitates IEL's educational offerings and participatory engagements. He is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Catalyst for Growth, a coaching, training, and consulting practice committed to helping individuals, groups, and organizations put their talents and strengths to optimal use. He is also an Art of Hosting practitioner and a participant of the first Evolutionary Leadership Bootcamp hosted by the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership. Driven by a multilevel, integral vision of holistic wellness, Antoine has a passion for individual, group, and community development, having done various forms of human development or capacity building for 20 years. Antoine's particular specialization is in leadership development and helping people learn how to live more meaningful and impactful lives. He also has a strong interest in helping groups harness their fullpotential while honoring and bridging the individuality of all members. In addition to consulting, Antoine also works as a facilitator of Interpersonal Dynamics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Antoine has a BA degree from Pomona College, an MPP from UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and an MA from the California Institute for Integral Studies. He is a member of the Organization Development for Social Change network and has a strong interest in fostering community dialogue and collaborative projects that target reinventing our social systems and pioneering new social institutions.Martin Dyrman HansenMartin is a process designer and he co-designs learning process for Evolutionary Leadership Bootcamps. He is currently doing independent research into the nature of creativity and its connection to wellbeing and uses his findings in designing and facilitating creative interpersonal spaces. Martin is a frequent reader, player and facilitator of creative processes and he is passionate about creating meaningful learning experiences and reintroducing playfulness in society. He uses his skills within process leadership, educational design and business development to help people reach their learning goals and have fun doing it. In addition to IEL Martin works with the Denmark based innovation consulting firm Bespoke Copenhagen to help organizations create new scenarios for the future. Martin has a BSc degree in Nanotechnology from Aalborg Universitet and he has graduated from the Kaospilot school in Denmark where he studied and practiced social entrepreneurship, educational design, and leadership with prominent thought leaders including IEL co-founder Manuel Manga. Martin has also worked with physical education and has been organizing events centered around physical activity and play.Peter Stonefield, PhDEvolutionary Leadership Bootcamp Co-Designer -- Peter is President of Stonefield Learning Group. He was an electronic systems engineer and manager before becoming a psychologist. Dr. Stonefield is a featured speaker and author of Managing Innovation and numerous articles. He completed over 200 consulting engagements and coached over 300 executives and engineers. Some of the training programs he developed are Agile Leadership for Startups, Cognitive and Creative Process, Managing Innovation, TQM, Agile Leadership, Agile Communications, Knowledge Management, Managing Change and The Architecture for Teamwork. He also facilitated the development of 20 global knowledge leveraging “Communities of Practice”. His client list includes Apple Computer, Baxter Laboratories, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, startups like Plaxo and several agencies of the US Government. Peres holds a BSEE, Electronic Systems from the University of Massachusetts, an MA in Psychology from Webster University, and a PhD in Psychology from Synthesis / Summit Graduate School. He was the principal consultant to the winner of the US President’s Quality Award for Managing Change in government and the GSA Administrators Award for Managing Change.Kathia Castro Laszlo, PhDEvolutionary Leadership Bootcamp Co-Designer -- Kathia is an international educator, researcher, coach and consultant committed to facilitate transformational processes that lead to cultural healing and sustainability. She is professor at Saybrook University in the School of Organizational Leadership and Transformation where she coordinates the specialization in Leadership of Sustainable Systems for MA and PhD students. Kathia has taught leadership, organizational development and strategy in the sustainability oriented MBAs of Presidio Graduate School (San Francisco), Bainbridge Graduate Institute (Seattle), Dominican University of California (San Francisco), EGADE Business School (Mexico), and Universidad del Medio Ambiente (Mexico). She is the co-founder of Syntony Quest and Global Leadership Lab and founding partner of The Journey Network. Kathia is originally from Monterrey, Mexico where she earned a BA in Marketing and a M.Ed. in Cognitive Development and came to the US as a Fulbright Scholar to earn her doctorate in Human Science with specialization in Social and Institutional Change. She is a mother, yoga practitioner and nature lover, and shares her perspectives through her blog www.MagentaWisdom.netKen Otter, PhDEvolutionary Leadership Bootcamp Co-Designer -- Ken has 30 years of professional experience in human and organizational development as an educator, coach and consultant, in the US and internationally. This experience engages people from diverse backgrounds, professions, and levels of responsibility in such areas as: education, health, public service, business, and the arts. Ken’s work is grounded in his life-long inquiry on the interplay between inner and outer change and how this interplay is practiced toward individual and organizational wellbeing, and leadership artistry. Presently, Ken is Director of Leadership Studies Programs and Co-director of The Leadership Center at Saint Mary's College. Areas of scholarship include: global leadership development, leadership coaching education, multi-stakeholder collaboration, collective creativity, and the application of lifespan and wisdom development in organizational life. Ken's educational studies include somatic, counseling and organizational psychology, expressive arts therapy, adult development and learning, and leadership. In addition to both a M.A. and Ph.D. degree, he has been earned certificates in the Art and Practice of Leadership Development from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and in Executive and Organizational Coaching from Columbia’s Teacher’s College.Levana SaxonEvolutionary Leadership Bootcamp Co-Designer -- Levana develops strategic methodology, curriculum and training projects to support movement building and popular education. Over the last 17 years she has trained and facilitated thousands of children, youth and adults. As a youth activist, she served as the North American Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme, co-founded the Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Youth Alliance and facilitated international gatherings with Youth for Environmental Sanity. Later (as an adult) she taught Ecopedagogy, an arts-based form of popular education for ecological justice at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and helped organize the World Education Forum while working with the Paulo Freire Institute. At Rainforest Action Network, she developed a national climate education program for children and youth and worked on agribusiness and global finance campaigns. She left RAN to re-focus on her passion for popular education, working to support Youth-Led Participatory Action Research projects with Youth In Focus, and then starting Practicing Freedom. She also currently blogs and facilitates anti-racism workshops and dialogues with the White Noise Collective and is a trainer with the Ruckus Society and Movement Strategy Center... a JUST, SUSTAINABLE, FLOURISHING WORLD_d3283970-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9To develop and support leaders in all sectors of society for conscious social evolution towards aJust, Sustainable, and Flourishing World_d3283a74-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9JusticeDo you work on building a JUST, SUSTAINABLE, FLOURISHING WORLD?Let's do it together!SustainabilityCollaborative ActionSocial EvolutionEvolutionary LeadershipSEVEN COMPETENCIES of EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP: Evolutionary Leadership provides a philosophical compass, a map, and a clear direction towards the creation of a just, sustainable, and flourishing world. Just as early explorers brought back stories and artifacts of fascinating new worlds, we need a fleet of leaders willing to set sail and bring back visions of luminous and compelling futures. At the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership we use the following seven competencies [documented as goals in this StratML rendition] to develop and support evolutionary leaders ...CollaborationCollaboration, friendship, and partnership are at the heart of our work, so we are always open to exploring potential synergies with individuals and organizations doing similar work.FriendshipPartnershipSynergiesONTOLOGICAL DESIGNINGCharacterize the relation between human beings and lifeworlds._d3283b50-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e91Anne-Marie WillisOntological Designing, as defined by Anne-Marie Willis "is a way of characterizing the relation between human beings and lifeworlds." The human world that we live in is a product of human design. Design is a powerful discipline that can be used for good or for bad. We need ontological designing to be ethical, sustainable with focus on futuring. _d3283c40-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9SYSTEMS THINKING & BEINGBe aware that we exist within a multiplicity of systems._d3283d1c-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e92We need to be aware of the fact that we exist within a multiplicity of systems: natural systems, living systems, social systems, and technological systems, to name a few. When we identify with these systems our sense of self-being, our consciousness expands and becomes richer in its complexity._d3283dee-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9ADAPTIVE WORK & COLLABORATIONFoster collaboration._d32845fa-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e93An adaptive challenge is an issue for which none of the known solutions work. Adaptive work requires that people confront tough issues, losses, change of values and hard choices. Collaboration enables adaptive work, and fostering collaboration is the best recipe for addressing adaptive challenges._d32845fb-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9EMOTIONS & GENERATIVE LANGUAGEUse the power of emotions and language to declare new ideas, visions, purposes, values, systems, institutions, narratives, and goals._d32845fc-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e94Evolutionary Leaders use the power of emotions and language to declare new ideas, visions, purposes, values, systems, institutions, narratives, and goals. Generative language is transformational, it shapes human reality and elicits commitments to effective action._d32845fd-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9EVOLUTIONARY PRINCIPLES, VISIONS & SCENARIOSUnderstand our evolutionary history as living systems and work within the creative tension of addressing local and global issues._d32845fe-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e95This competency supports leaders in understanding our evolutionary history as living systems and working within the creative tension of addressing immediate tough local and global issues like poverty, hunger, and climate change from the future, not just from problem solving perspective. This shift is vital for designers of new societal futures._d32846b8-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITYBring forth an emergent complex new system comprised of environmental, human, and institutional sustainability. _d32847bc-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e96Systemic sustainability is a macro-complex system made up of environmental, human, and institutional sustainability. Together, these three systems bring forth an emergent complex new system: sustainability as a coherent property that supports the well-being of all three systems. _d32848a2-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e9PERSONAL EVOLUTIONCommit to an evolving self._d3284988-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e97Personal evolution is the commitment to an evolving self, to create a new mind, to develop a complexity of consciousness, and an evolutionary & ecological mind. A person who chooses to become an evolutionary leader commits to transform their own mind, self, consciousness, as well as helping others to do the same._d3284a8c-4835-11e5-b72a-7105bd7835e92015-08-21http://www.evoleadinstitute.com/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net