Harold Nelson is an author, educator, and practitioner. He is the owner of Harold G. Nelson LLC; systemic design practice and education. He is a past president and a trustee of the International Society for Systems Science. He is the co-founding Director and President of the Advanced Design Institute (ADi). Dr. Harold Nelson advises or consults with public, private, and military organizations on issues of systemic design competence. Dr. Nelson is a visiting scholar in the School of Computer Science at the University of Montana. He was the 2009-2010 Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. He was an occasional Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy; and the Defense Analysis program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was also an affiliated Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington and worked in research for the NSF funded center for Learning in Informal and Formal Environments at the University of Washington, Stanford University, and SRI. As an advisor and consultant, Dr. Nelson has worked with non-profits and corporations, state and federal agencies, international governments, and the United Nations, and continues to work as an educator, consultant, and scholar on systemic organizational design. Dr. Nelson was the head of, and faculty member in, the Graduate Programs in Whole Systems Design (WSD) at Antioch University.Dr. Nelson received his Ph.D. in The Design of Social Systems, graduating with distinction, from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Master of Architecture degree from U.C. Berkeley and a Bachelor of Architecture from Montana State University. In 2004, “The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World”, received the Outstanding Book of the Year award. A 2nd edition by MIT Press was published in 2012. Dr. Nelson was a licensed architect in California.Specialties: systemic design inquiry, practice, teaching, research, and innovation.