Conference Speaker Profile - Tracy Huston  
 
Tracy Huston

Biography: Tracy is the co-founder of Menlo Lab, a global, non-profit network of leaders from the public and private sectors dedicated to creating the social and economic conditions needed to ensure sustainable well being, for our institutions and the people they serve. She brings over 20 years experience in working with leaders from business, social services, government, healthcare, education, and non-profit organizations in effecting meaningful and sustainable change to generate the results they want. Her work with executives and line leaders from global corporations, as well as with leaders from school districts, social services agencies, civic groups, and youth, represents the breadth and depth of expertise required to successfully engage all stakeholders in complex systems to overcome barriers to collaboration and co-create the innovative solutions that work and last. Her approaches address both the personal and systemic transformation needed to not only initiate but to sustain real change.

Tracy is the author of the book Inside-Out: Stories and Methods for Generating Collective Will to Create the Future We Want (Society for Organizational Learning, 2007), and of numerous articles published in organizational learning and leadership development journals. She is engaged as a speaker at organizational learning, systems thinking, and other forums throughout the country, and is a member of the Society for Organizational Learning and the Presencing Institute.


Title: The Leader’s Journey: Framing the Future for Breakthrough

Abstract: In these challenging times, leaders must shift attention from merely surviving to thriving, from focusing on incremental improvements within the context of current conditions to instead envisioning breakthroughs that can ‘disrupt history’ in ways that fundamentally change the conditions in which we operate. We create the future, in the present, and by shifting what can be limiting ways of seeing what is possible. Join Menlo Lab co-founders in exploring what leaders can do to reframe the field of possibility so we can create the futures we want.