Healthcare CollaborationAs a pioneer and leader in the field of less invasive medicine I have spent over four decades working across many medical disciplines trying to overcome the biases inherent in clinical medicine and disruptive change. Out of this process a number of innovative collaboration technology tools and strategies have emerged.
My passion for continuing to research how collective intelligence can give way to collective capability that brings about significant change inspired me to purchase The Kingbridge Centre as a laboratory and resource for pursuing this effort. My vision for this centre is to create a neutral place where leaders from diverse sectors with different backgrounds can mutually explore effective experiences as well as doing post mortems on unsuccessful ones.
I believe the most significant advances in healthcare will require collaborations between business, government, non-government organizations and academia to improve individual and collective efforts for evolving health systems nationally and globally.
I would like to begin to build a community of collaborative minded professionals by hosting/sponsoring a few interactive forums at Kingbridge this year. If you are interested in being a part of these forums and have a past successful or unsuccessful collaboration experience to share please contact me at
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The gathering place for thought leaders and change makers
Over the past 18 months we have experienced converging and escalating turmoil across the globe. To address the resulting challenges leaders will need to expand conventional strategies with ones that take into account the multi-generational views, technological advancements, and latent creative capacity in their organizations.
The media are full of criticisms of government, business, and other institutions failure to serve the public good. Frequently, these criticisms polarize issues, oversimplify and exaggerate in a way that makes it more difficult for the interested parties to collaborate and solve problems. Kingbridge would like to host a series of interactive forums that will try to constructively analyze these problems and look for opportunities including new business strategies in helping to solve them. The participants will include entrepreneurial leaders in a variety of fields of business, academia, and government.The Kingbridge Forum is an open platform for change makers to gather, innovate, and address complex problems. It will immerse you in conversations and explorations with others from different disciplines and paradigms, making it possible for you to think more boldly about your own leadership, and build critical capacities for the future.
How is the Kingbridge Forum different? The Kingbridge Forum invites diversity and collaboration, democratic innovation, and multi-disciplinary problem solving to unleash collective intelligence for organizational and systemic change.
We would like to invite you to provide suggestions on types of subjects you would be interested in discussing when attending the forums.
Share your ideas here.
 Possible subjects include:
1. Leveraging the power of authenticity in transitional times
- competencies required to lead and manage during crisis
- developing strategic agility to manage human capital
2. Using social networks and other Web 2.0 marketing
technologies to transform your organization
3. Exploring the opportunity to change and reinvent
presented by current conditions
Past Events
Kingbridge and ALIA have partnered to offer learning opportunities for those interested in Authentic Leadership and experimenting with different applications for effective problem solving and innovation.
Presented by  and co-hosted by 
Leading Profound Innovationwith C. Otto Scharmer, Arawana Hayashi, and Jim Marsden
April 5-8, 2009
Kingbridge Conference Centre and Institute
As Einstein famously said, problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them. The U-process is a theoretical framework and hands-on map for engaging teams or whole organizations in a process that shifts both personal and collective perception and therefore action. The three stages of sensing, presencing, and realizing include practices for suspending assumptions, gaining fresh insights into root dynamics, and discovering key leverage points for positive change. The U process leads to "profound innovation" because it provides a systematic way of accessing the deeper journey of your own leadership as well as the emerging potential of your organization or community.
Based on Dr. Scharmer's ground-breaking Theory U, this session will be particularly relevant for leaders and teams looking for new, more effective ways of resolving complex challenges.
You are encouraged to attend with your team, so that the learning and the process can be sustained in your home context.
Schedule
We will begin on Sunday, April 5, with on-site registration at 4:30 pm and dinner at 6:00 pm. On April 6 and 7 the schedule will continue into the evening. We will close on Wednesday, April 8, at 4:00 pm.
For more information, including registration fees and discounts, please go to Leading Profound Innovation on our partner's site.
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Institute, and a founding member of the MIT Green Hub. Dr. Scharmer has consulted with global companies, international institutions, and governments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has co-designed and delivered award-winning business leadership programs for client firms including Daimler, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Fujitsu, and Google. He also facilitates cross-sector programs for leaders in business, government, and civil society that focus on building people's collective capacity to achieve profound innovation and change.
Scharmer holds a Ph.D. in economics and management from Witten-Herdecke University in Germany. He introduced the theoretical framework and practice called "presencing" in his book 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. With his colleagues, Dr. Scharmer has used presencing to facilitate profound innovation and change processes both within companies and across societal systems. More information about Dr. Scharmer and his work can be found at: http://www.presencing.com/
In times when the status quo is often no longer an option, Dr. Scharmer's work has been hailed as an important breakthrough in the fields of leadership, innovation, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and organizational transformation.
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