Moving from Transactional to Transformational Change: How We Design Teams, Organizations and Partnerships for an Increasingly Complex World

Event description

  • Free
  • Professional and career development
  • Sustainability

With each year, the urgency to address sustainability challenges grows. Society continues to learn more about the interconnected nature of sustainability challenges and the deeply complex pathways to systemic and resilient solutions. Despite this growing awareness, most teams, organizations and partnerships are ill-equipped to effectively address deeply complex and long-term sustainability challenges. Instead, we have a habit of designing teams, organizations and partnerships to protect the status quo, or advance incremental change. This talk will describe why we’re stuck in this paradigm and unpack compelling research, examples and models that support transformative approaches to team, organization and partnership design and development. The discussion will also outline the systemic shifts needed in policy and funding practices that are critical to new approaches to team and organization design.

Biography

Fletcher Beaudoin is the Principal of Bridas Consulting where he works with individuals, teams and organizations to develop and implement collaboration structures that are durable progress on complex social, economic and environmental challenges. He holds a master’s degree in public administration in Environmental Science and Policy and Energy Policy from Columbia University’s School of Public and International Affairs and is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. He spent 15 years as sustainability and partnerships practitioner at Portland State University – leading the development and initial implementation of the University’s first Climate Action Plan and serving as Partnerships Director, Associate Director and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions (ISS); ISS leads community-university collaborations that target the changes need to create a sustainable, just and resilient region.

Event contact

Molly Dean
molly.b.dean@asu.edu
Date

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Wednesday, January 15 2025
10:30 a.m. to Noon
Time

10:30 am12:00 pm (MST)

Location

ISTBX 481 (Formerly Wrigley Hall)

Cost

Free