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Linda Booth Sweeney
Integration and Development of Systems-Based Inquiry Linda has designed and conducted in-person and technology assisted training programs for corporate leaders, managers and educational practitioners. She has also taught a semester-long course on "Systems-Based Inquiry" to Harvard and MIT graduate students. Linda has created several tools designed to make systems thinking more accessible, including:
Linda is currently conducting research with MIT Sloan School MBAs and MBA's and managers from around the country to assess understanding of dynamic complexity. Along with MIT professor John Sterman, she is developing an inventory of brief pencil and paper tasks that enable individuals to self-assess understanding of particular aspects of dynamic complexity, such as nonlinear relationships, circular feedback, time delays and stocks/ flows. Client Work Linda has worked with a range of clients including JP Morgan, AT&T, Shell Oil, BP Oil, Ford Motor Company, Visteon, Monitor, The Forum Corporation, , Pensare, ETSA (New Zealand), RGA (South Africa), Rodale Press, Butterworth Healthcare System, Micromentor (Omega Performance), The Barr Foundation, The Waters Foundation, Plug Power, Champion International, Hillside Children's Center and City Year. Partial list of Publications by Linda Booth Sweeney Selected Books and Book Chapters The Systems Thinking Playbook: Volumes I-III (1995/1998/2001), co-authored with Dr. Dennis Meadows. Turning Point/Pegasus Communications. When a Butterfly Sneezes: A guide for helping children explore interconnections in our world through favorite stories. (2001) Pegasus Communications. "Managing Complex Dynamic Systems: Challenge and Opportunity for Naturalistic Decision Making Theory" (2001). Naturalistic Decision Making. Book chapter co-authored with Dr. John Sterman. (In press) "Learning to Understand the Dynamics of a Complex World: A Theoretical Review of Three Frameworks for Systems-Based Inquiry." (2001). Harvard Graduate School of Education, honors qualifying thesis. Selected Journal Articles "Cloudy Skies: Assessing Public Understanding of Global Warming." Special edition of The System Dynamics Review (in press). Sterman and Booth Sweeney (2002) "Bathtub Dynamics: Initial results of a systems thinking inventory," System Dynamics Review (2001). 16 (4), pg. 249-286. Co-authored with Dr. John Sterman
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a researcher, author and consultant, Linda is dedicated to helping
people of all ages learn to develop their own insights about the nature
of the complex and interdependent world around them. Linda investigates
and develops methods and tools for defining, investigating and solving
systems-based challenges. For the past ten years, Linda has worked
with the Organizational Learning Center at M.I.T. (now the Society
for Organizational Learning, SoL) as a project leader, helping member
organizations to solve work challenges through systems thinking and
its related disciplines and to integrate systems thinking into in-house
professional development programs. Linda has published several books
designed to simplify understanding of systems frameworks, concepts
and tools and to provide visual and experiential examples of systems-in
action. She is currently an instructor in education and doctoral candidate
at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. |
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