Margaret Wheatley

Meg Wheatley has a MA from New York University in systems thinking and a doctorate from Harvard’s program in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, with a focus on organizational behaviour and change. She has been a consultant and speaker since 1973, working with almost all types of organizations and people. They range from the head of the U.S. Army to twelve year old Girl Scouts, from CEOs to small town ministers. This diversity includes Fortune 100 corporations, government agencies, healthcare institutions, foundations, public schools, colleges, major church denominations, professional associations, and monasteries. She has served as full-time graduate management faculty at two institutions, Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and The Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, and was an advisor to the Fetzer Fellows Program of the Fetzer Institute.
She is also President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a global charitable foundation founded in 1991, and dedicated to serving life-affirming leaders. Berkana serves the vision of a world where all people can experience themselves as whole, healthy, sacred and free. It supports local leaders in over 30 countries who aspire to liberate the common capacity for human goodness. Information about Berkana’s work can be obtained from www.berkana.org.
Meg’s books include Leadership and the New Science, first published in 1992. This book is credited with establishing a fundamentally new approach to how we think about organizations. It has been translated into 18 languages and won many awards, including “Best Management Book of 1992” in Industry Week, Top Ten Business Books of the 1990s by CIO Magazine, and Top Ten Business books of all time by Xerox Corporation. The video of Leadership and the New Science, produced by CRM films, has also won several film awards.
In 1996, Meg co-authored A Simpler Way with Myron Kellner-Rogers. It explores the question: Could we organize human endeavor differently if we understood how Life organizes? Through photos, poetry, and prose, the book contemplates self-organization, and the conditions that nurture life and organizations. Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, her newest book, was released by Berrett-Koehler in January 2005.
Meg’s articles appear in a wide range of professional publications and magazines, and can be accessed on her website. www.margaretwheatley.com

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