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Linda Booth Sweeney

Researcher, author and consultant dedicated to helping people of all ages learn to develop their own insights about the nature of the complex and interdependent world around them.

Currently: Develops student materials and activities about living systems for SEED – Schlumberger Excellence in Education Development; a partner in SoL Education Partnership, a collaboration with the Society for Organizational Learning, Shelburne Farms, The Cloud Institute, and the Creative Learning Exchange

Clients: New York City Department of Education – Empowerment Schools, SmartWired, Seton Hall Executive Leadership program, Chicago Organic Schools Project, Shelburne Farms/Burlington Public Schools, Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, King Abdulaziz & his Companies Foundation for the Gifted (Saudi Arabia), Foundation for Sustainable Learning (Netherlands), The Farm-Based Education Association

Previously: 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.

Writing: Connected Wisdom: Living stories about living systems (2008); The Systems Thinking Playbook (2001) co-authored with Dennis Meadows; When a Butterfly Sneezes (2001).

Education: Ed.D. from Harvard's Graduate School of Education