第3章 Preface（1/6）

HOW CAN WE ADDRESS our toughest challenges? How can we break through our most entangled, stuck problems? How can we create social change?

I have spent the past twenty years searching for answers to these questions. My work has been to help teams of leaders come together from across a given social system to address a particular challenge that all of them want to resolve but that none of them can resolve alone. My role has been as a designer, facilitator, and organizer of these practical social change projects. I have immersed myself in these initiatives, and at the same time have paid attention to what was happening around and inside me.

I have had the privilege of working in this way, alongside my colleagues, with all kinds of teams, on all sorts of challenges, in all parts of the world. We have worked in the United States, to make cities healthier and more livable; in Canada, to accelerate the shift to a low-carbon economy; in Colombia, to create equitable development