[All] FW: Upcoming Adam Kahane Lecture

[Susan Koswan]

Hi Everyone,

I haven’t read or heard of Kahane, but was asked to forward this.

Susan K

 

Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation

 

Adam Kahane, author of Power & Love: A Theory & Practice of Social Change,
will deliver this year's Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation on Wednesday,
Jan 27 at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in
Waterloo. Kahane,once praised by South Africa's Nelson Mandela , is an
internationally acclaimed social innovator. He will give a public lecture
and launch his latest book on how to effectively deal with pressing problems
in society.

 

The Annual Lecture on Social Innovation highlights world-class thinkers with
new ideas on how to achieve significant, durable social change for pressing
and increasingly complex social problems. In this year's lecture, Kahane
will draw on his extensive experience with designing and leading complex
multi-stakeholder change processes to offer practical guidance for
effectively balancing power and love, two usually polarized drives. 

Learn more

 

 

About Adam Kahane

 

Adam is a leading organizer, designer and facilitator of processes through
which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to
address their toughest challenges. He has worked in more than fifty
countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians,
generals and guerillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community
activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.

 

Adam Kahane is a partner in Reos Partners, an international organisation
dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective
action in complex social systems. He is also an Associate Fellow of the
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford’s
Saïd Business School.

 

Adam is the author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking,
Listening, and Creating New Realities (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler,
2004). Nelson Mandela said: “This breakthrough book addresses the central
challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems
we have created.” Adam’s second book, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice
of Social Change, is forthcoming from Berrett-Koehler in December 2009.

 

 

The event, which begins at 7 p.m., is presented by Social Innovation
Generation at the University of Waterloo, Region of Waterloo, CIGI, Capacity
Waterloo Region and Musagetes.

 

Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation featuring Adam Kahane

Date: January 27, 2010

Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location:  Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), 57 Erb St.
W., Waterloo, ON
Tickets: $25 (includes admission, a copy of 'Power & Love', reception with
Adam Kahane)
RSVP: Register online here or by emailing siglecture at uwaterloo.ca

 

 

 

 

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