Staff and Faculty

Staff

Lina Stoia

Administrative and Operations Coordinator

Lina is the admin and operations coordinator at the Academy for Systems Change, where she enjoys contributing backbone stability to the organization. Outside of the Academy, Lina’s systems change work centers on moving towards more liberatory patterns in her roles...
North Carolina, USA

Marta Ceroni

Co-Director

Marta is the Co-Director at the Academy for Systems Change, where she helps coordinate research and content development building on Donella Meadows’ work. With a doctorate in forest ecology, (more…)
New Hampshire, USA

Kindle Loomis

Co-Director

Kindle is the Co-Director of the Academy. Previously, she worked in food systems as Program Director for a social-profit (non-profit) focused on food education and access. With a background in Natural Resource Planning (more…)
Vermont, USA

Faculty & Contributors

Anne Murray Allen

Faculty

Anne Murray Allen is focused in helping organizations work across sectors and organizations to engage (more…)
Oregon, USA

Carol MacKinnon, PCC

Faculty

Carol MacKinnon, MA, PCC is an Associate of The Coaching Project, Inc. where she delivers innovative Leader Coach® training and individual, team and organization systems coaching. (more…)
Canada

Charles Holmes

Faculty

Charles Holmes is a skilled facilitator and educator whose 20 years of experience have honed a passion for creating meaningful dialogue among groups (more…)
Canada

Darcy Winslow

Faculty

Darcy Winslow is the Founding President (2010-2020) and co-founder of the Academy for Systems Change. (more…)
Oregon, USA

David Stroh

Faculty

David Peter Stroh is internationally recognized for his work in enabling leaders to apply systems thinking to achieve breakthroughs around chronic, complex problems and to develop  (more…)
California, USA

Hal Hamilton

Faculty

Hal Hamilton founded and is now a senior advisor to the Sustainable Food Lab. He has supported sustainability strategy for many food businesses, helps design and manage (more…)
Washington, USA

Joe Hsueh

Faculty / Fellow

Joe Hsueh is a change enabler, university lecturer and researcher in system dynamics, learning organization and large-scale systemic change.  He is passionate about (more…)
Taiwan

Joseph McIntyre

Faculty

Joseph first ran into systems thinking as an undergraduate where he studied the seminal “Limits to Growth” as well as the systems philosophy (more…)
California, USA
LeAnne Grillo

LeAnne Grillo

Faculty

LeAnne Grillo helps diverse groups of people act together to address the complex social issues they are passionate to change. She is co-founder and a partner in Spaces for Change, (more…)
Maine, USA

Linda Booth Sweeney

Faculty

Linda is a whole-systems learning pioneer, author and founder of Toggle Labs. Through Toggle Labs, she creates experiential learn/do opportunities to improve our ability to (more…)
Massachusetts, USA

Melanie Goodchild

Faculty

Melanie Goodchild, moose clan, is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibway woman) from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation and Ketegaunseebee (Garden River) First Nation.  She is a systems thinking and complexity scholar who offers a uniquely Anishinaabeg approach to making sense of society's most...
Ontario, Canada

Michael Goodman

Faculty

Michael Goodman is an internationally recognized speaker, author, teacher and practitioner in the fields of systems thinking, organizational learning and change, and leadership.  (more…)
New Hampshire, USA

Peter M. Senge

Faculty

Peter Senge, has been at the forefront of organizational learning, leadership development and systems change since his classic text The Fifth Discipline in 1990 (more…)
Massachusetts, USA
Robert Hanig

Robert Hanig

Faculty

Robert Hanig is a founding member of the Academy for Systems Change, a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning (solonline.org), (more…)
Massachusetts, USA

Sara Heppner-Waldston

Faculty

Sara Heppner’s passion for creative communication comes from a lifetime of formal artistic (more…)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Thomas Sullivan

Faculty

Thomas Sullivan has spent 25 years as a consultant, facilitator, coach and lecturer on designing, leading and implementing personal and organization change efforts (more…)
Massachusetts, USA