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12th Oct: sixth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU

Thursday 25 Nov 2021

Gene Bellinger will present a webinar on Systems thinking: trial and learning scheduled for 12th October at 12 noon (UK time). Gene’s talk will be introduced by Dr Rupesh Shah from the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice (ASTiP) group at the OU.

Gene has been a passionate Systems Thinker for over four decades. He is a highly respected member of the systems thinking community, authored hundreds of models and articles, created over 1,500 videos about relationships and their implications. In 2013 Gene co-authored “Beyond Connecting the Dots: Modeling for Meaningful Results” with Scott Fortmann-Roe, the developer of Insight Maker. Gene shepherded the Systems Thinking World discussion group on LinkedIn to 20,000+ members focused on developing a better understanding of, and employing systems thinking principles. On the OU STiP@50 presentation, Gene comments: “During the past four-plus decades traveling in the realm of systems there have been some Aha! Moments. I really would have benefitted from tremendously had they not taken years to show up. It is hoped that the presentation aids others in not taking nearly as long as it took me to arrive at these meaningful learnings.”