Peggy Holman is a management and training consultant for
business, non-profit, and governmental organizations. She is a
co-founder and board member of the Open Space Institute, which
supports learning and practices for self-organization in our social
systems. She collaborated in creating “Journalism that Matters,” a
network of conversations among journalists that is generating new
roles and organizational forms for today’s emerging
information-sharing, open source society. She also developed a
theory of emergence in social systems that describes how diversity
and dissonance can bring forth emergent insights, deep community,
and coherent action. Peggy Holman is a co-author of the first and
second editions of The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on
Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems.