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Leadership Course Learning Group

Friday, September 11, 2020
8:00 am9:00 am

We are going to offer a continuing education opportunity for Leadership Lincoln alumni. This is an opportunity to join other alumni in learning new ways of thinking about leadership.

Our first exploration will begin on September 1 and will involve a small group, co-learning experience – a group journey involving one of the most popular and impactful massive open online courses (MOOC) in the world, led by Otto Scharmer of the MIT Sloan School for Management. The course is offered for free through edx, and is called u.lab: Leading From the Emerging Future: An introduction to leading profound social, environmental and personal transformation.

Preeta Bansal will be working with Brendan Evans to facilitate some of the discussions of our group as we work through the course. Currently we are planning on convening through Zoom and will poll the group for meeting times.

The size of the group will be limited. If you are interested in participating in our inaugural group, please register for the course via the edX site, and register here to join the Leadership Lincoln learning group.

About the Course
“In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented disruption. Climate strikes, the COVID-19 pandemic and global protests against racial injustice all point to a pressing need for societal renewal. To catalyze this renewal we need to learn not from the past, but from a future wanting to be born. How to activate our capacity to lean into the emerging future may well be the most important leadership challenge of our time.” (see also this video)

The course may be accessed for free or you can have a graded certification for $99.00. Please register for either option through the course link on edX.

About the Course Instructor
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He is coauthor of Leading from the Emerging Future, which outlines eight acupuncture points for transforming our social, economic, ecological and political systems. His most recent book, The Essentials of Theory U, summarizes the core principles and applications of awareness-based systems change. In 2015, Otto co-founded the MITx u.lab, a massive open online course (MOOC) for leading profound change, which has since activated a global eco-system of transformational change involving more than 160,000 users from 185 countries. In March 2020, Otto and his colleagues at the Presencing Institute launched GAIA (Global Activation of Intention and Action), a free, online, deep learning journey, geared toward profound personal, societal, and planetary renewal.