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I have a strong environmental background that includes 21 years with English Nature and an upper second class Honours degree in Geology/Ecology (Combined Sciences).Beginning my career in systems and process improvement I was drawn towards the anthropological, people and community aspects of knowledge management within which I gained quite a high profile speaking (and facilitating workshops) about the application of storytelling and complexity thinking.I now take an ecological view of organisational change by placing emphasis on communities and the knowledge and ideas that flow within and between them. My approach to facilitation then creates the conditions for revealing and self-realising the sense made of the stories being told. All of this is done with a deep understanding of the unpredictable nature of complex systems and some of the latest thinking in the Cognitive Sciences.In the last 10 years as a self-employed knowledge ecologist I have absorbed methods and ideas from an even wider range of disciplines from problem solving to open innovation design thinking, collaborative community building through to using narrative frameworks to communicate complex ideas.I believe my strongest asset is having a foot in, and being accepted by, several very different networks, from environmental storytellers, engineers, conservationists and groups working for social change, and in doing so identifying and transferring the best insights between them.my personal 10 year vision:To facilitate, attract and amplify Homo narrans (the storytelling human) into the emergent future that will be known as the SustainoceneRon Donaldson, 9th August 2017Specialties: Creative Problem Solving, Innovation Ecosystems, Sustainability, Storytelling, TRIZ, Cognitive Edge, Sense Making, Team/Community Building, Change Management, Lessons Learned, KM

Listed skills include Knowledge Management, Change Management, Workshop Facilitation, Training, and 35 others.