In Conversation: Finding Acupuncture Points to Transform Systems

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Host: Presencing Institute, United Nations Development Programme

This is the Decade of Action and it requires transforming systems. In this session, Laurel Patterson UNDP Head of SDG integration, Otto Scharmer MIT Senior Lecturer and Co-founder of the Presencing Institute, and Violet Baffor, Deputy Resident Representative – Programmes at UNDP, will offer their insights and examples of how our actions today will lead to change tomorrow. This will be a lively conversation about strategies that can help us make decisions in a noisy world to find the “acupuncture points” of change.

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Founder/Senior Lecturer, Presencing Institute/MIT

Otto Scharmer

Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School

Head, SDG Integration, UNDP

Laurel Patterson

Laurel Patterson is the Head of SDG Integration in UNDP’s Global Policy

Deputy Resident Representative- Programmes, UNDP

Violet Baffour

Currently, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative (Programmes) in Liberia. Her previous assignments include: