Claus Otto Scharmer, Ph.D.;  Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding co-director of ELIAS, a joint leadership development initiative of MIT, the UN global compact, and the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL).

C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders Innovate Across Sectors), a program linking twenty leading global institutions from business, government, and civil society in order to prototype profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. He introduced the theoretical framework and practice called “presencing” in Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges (2007), and in Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (2005), co-authored with Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. Scharmer has consulted with global companies, international institutions, and cross-sector change initiatives in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. More information: www.ottoscharmer.com.