Systems Thinking for Transformative Leadership Practice: Leading Change in Times of Uncertainty and Complexity

An online workshop hosted by the Transformative Leadership M.A. program.

If you are tired of surface solutions and ready to lead change for more meaningful and sustainable impact, this session is for you. Explore how systems thinking can empower you as a transformative leader to address complex challenges. 

Join us and learn how to embody systems thinking and move from reactive to regenerative ways of being in leadership for improved problem-solving, enhanced decision-making, and greater innovation.

Host Bio

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Kerubo Abuya, Ph.D.Kerubo Abuya, Ph.D., is an Organizational, Change Leadership and Transformation Scholar-Practitioner who collaborates with leaders across sectors. She has served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), School of Consciousness and Transformation, Transformative Inquiry Department; and will be teaching the “Ways of Relating: Interpersonal and Group Dynamics” course in Fall 2025 for the Transformative Leadership Program. She also supports PhD students at CIIS by serving on dissertation committees.

As a social scientist, educator, consultant, coach, and Utu/Ubuntu/Obomwanyabanto consciousness activist-scholar-practitioner, she utilizes participatory action research/emancipatory praxis, complexity and systems theory, critical theory, critical Afro-feminisms, critical pedagogy, partnership theory, transformative learning, dialogue, public narrative/stories, organizing, and other transformative pedagogies and interventions; to develop or enhance leaders’ capacity to lead transformative organizational and other forms of social systems change and cultural transformation.

Aspects of her work and transdisciplinary research interests explore multilayered intersections of complexity, social systems design/analysis/change, caring economics, spirituality, consciousness, culture, gender, human rights, transformative learning, values-based leadership, and conscious leadership in human and technology collaboration during digital transformation such as the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into organizational life.

She earned a PhD in Organizational Systems (Organizational Leadership and Transformation) from Saybrook University, an MBA (Colorado State University), Master of Science in Technical and Professional Communication (Southern Polytechnic State University), and Bachelor of Education (University of Nairobi).

Related Academic Program
Department of Transformative Inquiry