Peggy Holman

“a blend of challenge and support that inspires people to think beyond their usual boundaries”

Practice: convenes and hosts conversations that matter, inviting people and systems to gather around issues they care about

Writing: The Change Handbook (2nd edition, 2007), co-edited with Tom Devane and Steven Cady

In development: a new theory and practice for leadership in changing times that is informed by the dynamics of the sciences of chaos, complexity and evolution

Current inquiries: how we take to scale the gifts that the "process arts" bring to shifting our collective capacity for living well together.

Since 2001, with journalists in redefining journalism for the 21st century.

Co-founder: Open Space Institute, dedicated to spreading the use of Open Space, a philosophy and practice that encourages people to take responsibility for what they love to transform their organizations. 

Clients: Boeing Company, National Forest Service, Israeli Ministry of Education, Microsoft Corporation, Novartis Pharma AG,  Switzerland, Associated Press Managing Editors, New England Associated Press News Association, American Press Institute’s Media Center

Education: MBA from Seattle University, BA from the University of Washington