
John Renesch
author, futurist The Great Growing Up
- San Francisco CA
Senior, experienced global expert on large scale social and organizational transformation.
Biography
John is a member of the practitioner faculty for the Center for Leadership Studies, past member and project advisor of the World Future Society, current member and inaugural board chair of the Shaping Tomorrow's Foresight Network and advisory board member of the Sustainable Futures Foundation and Founding Fellow of the Global Collaborators’ Alliance.
John’s articles have appeared in Christian Science Monitor, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, Journal of Values Based Leadership, The Ecologist, The Guardian, Journal of Human Values, and Directors Monthly.
A powerful, engaging and knowledgeable presenter, John has been called a "business visionary" by The Futurist magazine. Stanford’s Michael Ray calls John “a beacon lighting the path of the new paradigm…” Global leadership guru Warren Bennis calls him “a wise elder who shines with wisdom.”
Industry Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Affiliations
- Renesch Advisory Services
Sample Talks
Building a Conscious Organization
John talks about how leaders today need to be not only skilled in the way to lead, they need to be critical thinkers, possessing the conscious awareness to do the right thing. He underlines the need for more than intellectual know-how. They need heart and soul so they inspire excellence, exceptionalism and commitment.
Understanding Systems and How They Misbehave
Perhaps the least understood mental models while being the most critical for our modern organizations is the dynamics of social systems. John provides examples of linear versus systems approaches to organizational and social dynamics, citing how systems "act up" with some predictability and how best to resolve systems problems.
Building a Conscious Organization
John describes a model for an organization that has a built-in immunity to bureaucracy, assuring greater functionality, attracting people who resonate with higher levels of productivity and who have less tolerance for the BS that is found throughout most organizations.
Style
Availability
- Keynote
- Moderator
- Panelist
- Workshop Leader
- Host/MC
- Author Appearance