Otto Scharmer

Otto Scharmer (born 1961) is a German academic who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-founder of the Presencing Institute (now seemingly subsumed into u-school for Transformation).[1][2] At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he chairs the IDEAS Global Challenge program for cross-sector innovation[2] and is the author/co-author of several books. He focuses on action research.[3]

Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer
Born1961 (age 61–62)
CitizenshipGermany
Alma materWitten/Herdecke University
Known forTheory U
Websitewww.ottoscharmer.com

Education

Scharmer studied economics at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany, where he received his diploma and PhD.[4]

Career

In 2015 Otto co-founded the MITx u.lab,[5] a massive open online course with more than 140,000 users from 185 countries.[6]

Awards and honors

He received the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT (2015),[7] and the EU Leonardo Corporate Learning Award for the contributions of Theory U to the future of management (2016).[8] In 2017 he was ranked #1 of the world's top 30 education professionals by globalgurus.org.[9]

Selected publications
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  • Senge, Peter M.; Scharmer, Claus Otto; Jaworski, Joseph; Flowers, Betty Sue (2004). Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (1st ed.). New York: Currency/Doubleday. ISBN 038551624X. OCLC 61257585.
  • Scharmer, Otto; Käufer, Katrin (2013). Leading from the emerging future: from ego-system to eco-system economies (1st ed.). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. ISBN 9781605099262. OCLC 813920439.
  • Scharmer, Claus Otto (2016) [2007]. Theory U: leading from the emerging future. A BK business book (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. ISBN 9781626567986. OCLC 944179658.
  • Scharmer, Claus Otto (2018). The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler. ISBN 9781523094400. OCLC 987657070.

References
  1. "People – Presencing Institute". presencing.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  2. "Otto Scharmer | MIT Sloan". mitsloan.mit.edu.
  3. In his own words: Otto Scharmer – Theory U: Emerging Futures. 2021-12-15. Event occurs at circa 6m00. Retrieved 2023-02-21 – via YouTube.
  4. "Otto Scharmer bio". ottoscharmer.com. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  5. "Awareness-Based Systems Change with u.lab - How to Sense and Actualize the Future". edx.org. Retrieved 2017-05-03.
  6. "EPH Conference". ephconference.eu. 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  7. "Photos: Instructors in accounting and operations management recognized at annual teaching awards – MIT Sloan School of Management". mitsloan.mit.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  8. "Thought Leadership » Leonardo Award 2016 » Leonardo". leonardo-award.eu. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  9. "Education Gurus 30 – Global Gurus". globalgurus.org. Archived from the original on 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2017-02-15.


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