SYSTEMS THINKER · CHANGE AGENT · PRACTITIONER
LORINDA R. ROWLEDGE, Ph.D.
FOUNDER & CEO
Holding the heavy weight of what is broken — and the deep, uplifting force of emergent possibility.
Paradigm Shift
Profound transformation — together, stepping into our power to fundamentally shift the underlying paradigms, goals, assumptions, and socio-political-economic structures driving today's METACRISIS — guiding a just transition that stops and minimizes the harm as we achieve phase-shift socio-economic-political and environmental change.
Mind, Heart, & Systems
Collective intelligence and wisdom, heart-centered purpose, and systems dynamics analysis — applied to economic, social and natural ecosystem design, strategy innovation, and solution-focused action.
Local Roots, Global Network
Engaged local and bioregional community economic, environmental and social development — rooted in place, grounded in relationships, and woven into global networks — leading the transformational transition our moment demands.
Healing & Possibility
Repairing the harm, catalyzing possibility — acknowledging and repairing the damage inflicted in our relationships with others and the living world, intentionally or unintentionally, today or in the past, directly or indirectly. Healing relations with all stakeholders — in every business model, value stream, exchange and interaction. Together, activating the powerful sense of unlimited possibility and active hope that drives transformative action.
WORK & PRACTICE FOCUS
The animating force across all my work: unleashing the synergistic power of innovation, deep engagement, and catalytic ecosystem evolution — creating regenerative value that is simultaneously environmental, social, and economic.
REGENERATIVE ENTERPRISE
Co-designing and implementing regenerative, nature-positive, and socially positive business enterprises and economic ecosystems.
FUTURE-FIT INNOVATION
Accelerating development and adoption of innovative products, services, technologies, and socio-technical systems fit for the emerging world.
PLACE-BASED DEVELOPMENT
Imagineering and design-building regenerative social and real estate projects advancing bioregional community development and urban revitalization.
STRATEGIC ADVICE & COACHING
Walking alongside leaders, entrepreneurs, healers, artists, and community builders dreaming and designing the alternative future — and being shaped by them in return.
ELEVATING EXEMPLARS
Discovering and amplifying the trailblazers, points of light, and islands of coherence — emerging pathways and thought leaders found around the globe.
POSSIBILITY & SYNERGY
Unleashing the power of transformational re-invention — where possibility, synergy, and collective imagination converge into lived reality.
ADVANCING APPLIED
KNOWLEDGE & PRACTICE
• Whole-system engagement in co-creating transformational innovation
•. Amplifying & accelerating regenerative transformation
•. Thriving systems centered on community economic development
•. Resilient bioregional value streams, infrastructure & ecosystems
•. Centering thriving and flourishing as the measure of success
CrowdRising: Building a Sustainable World through Mass Collaboration
Foreword by Joel Makower, Chair and Co-founder of Trellis Group, creator of GreenBiz.com
CrowdRising features case examples of open innovation applied to sustainability challenges and explores how mass collaboration can drive systemic change.
Mapping the Journey: Case Studies in Strategy and Action toward Sustainable Development
This book presents case studies from around the world based on personal interviews with organizational leaders and focusing on their journeys towards sustainability. Its aim is to provide visions of a more sustainable future, and to shed light on the management processes they employed.
Publisher AmazonThis is the work: to stand fully in the tension between what is and what could be — between expertise and its limits, between grief and agency, between the local and the planetary.
THE CENTRAL INTEGRATION
Decades at the leading edge of world-class management, leadership, and sustainability — held honestly alongside the recognition that even the best of it has been, at times, dramatically insufficient, or unwittingly complicit in the very harms it sought to address. Energized by the conviction that by working together with urgency toward a higher purpose, humanity can reimagine, reinvent, reconstruct, and regenerate our economic, social and ecological systems –– co-creating with every relationship a flourishing future where everyone thrives.