Organizational
and Ecosystem Transformation 


Today’s biggest challenges require new ways of thinking, relating, and acting. We help organizations and ecosystems deepen awareness of the systems they operate in, fostering collaboration and guiding transformative change aligned with the emerging future.

 

 


We empower leaders and teams in business, public sector, and civil society to realize their
best future potential.


Our transformative processes cultivate mindset shifts, build collaboration capacity, and inspire confidence for joint action. 

Our services

Strategy & Transformation

We support partners to clarify where they want to go and to prototype how to get there. By building ‘future literacy,’ we help align organizational capabilities with the needs of the emerging future. Our strategy & transformation work reveals leverage points for core operations, medium-term expansion and long-term growth opportunities.

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Ecosystem Leadership Journeys

Our transformative journeys elevate leadership practice at individual and collective levels, enabling teams to understand and navigate complex systems. By cultivating curiosity, compassion, and courage, leaders experience profound shifts in mindsets, relationships, and capacities for action, unlocking lasting transformation, collaboration, and meaningful impact across ecosystems.

Organizational Capacity Building Programs

Our bespoke programs empower teams to deepen their understanding of systems and build transformative leadership capacities. Through cutting-edge technology, blended (online / in-person) methodologies, and intensive support, we build capacities like generative listening and dialogue, accessing new strategic insights and turning ideas into action.

Innovation Labs for Systems Transformation

We convene multi-stakeholder dialogues and host Innovation Labs for partners seeking to transform innovative ideas into practical collective action to tackle ecosystemic challenges. Through deepening the quality of relationships within those ecosystems and enabling systems to see and sense themselves, we help participants unlock new possibilities and reach their highest future potential.

Generative Coaching

Successful systems transformation depends on leaders with clear aspirational intentions, deep self-awareness, defined systemic focus areas for improvement, and a willingness to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for progress. Our Generative Coaches support leaders in individually tailored programs. Coaching can also be integrated with wider ecosystem leadership journeys, and in the context of team coherence. 

Our approach

 

 

We partner with you to co-initiate tailored journeys that address your most pressing challenges, empowering your organization to drive systemic, social, and ecological regeneration. Our approach integrates proven frameworks, such as Theory U, and focuses on three transformative shifts:

  • Mindset Shifts: Cultivating new awareness of systemic dynamics, deepening understanding of your organization’s system and ecosystem, and aligning leadership with the emerging future.
  • Collaboration Shifts: Enhancing the quality of relationships, building trust, and fostering transformative collective action.
  • Action Shifts: Strengthening the confidence and capacity to translate insights into impactful strategies and prototypes.

With over a decade of global experience guiding complex transformations, our faculty has contributed to diverse fields, including regenerative agriculture, education, health care, energy, philanthropy, and beyond.

Our work is supported by the interconnected ecosystem of the Presencing Institute, where u-research provides global thought leadership and innovation to inform our cutting-edge approaches, and u-school engages a diverse, global audience, fostering a network of changemakers across sectors. These elements enrich our partnerships with organizations, enabling us to co-create strategies and solutions that drive deep systemic, social, and ecological regeneration.

We are deeply committed to supporting you in your mission and transformation, working together to build the foundation for an emerging regenerative future.


Meet the team



"I’ve experienced firsthand the profound impact of Otto’s transformative work—on our company as a whole, our teams, our individual employees. Now we can all participate more readily in the possibilities for systems change in the world."

EILEEN FISHER | Founder and Chairwoman, Eileen Fisher Inc.

 

 

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Case Studies

For Business

Prototyping financial innovations for social wellbeing

Enabling a leadership academy and network of values-based banks, to prototype financial innovations that serves the unbanked and underbanked, advance financial products that increase wellbeing for all, and accelerated ecological innovations. 


Read the case from GABV

Evolving business operations as regenerative businesses


Read the case from Eileen Fisher

Building a collective vision shifting from ego to eco

Applying Theory U to develop the organization's vision.

 

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For Public Agencies

Accelerating Transformation through SDG Leadership Labs


Read the case of UNDCO
 Watch the full labs story

Building 
Systems Change Leadership Capabilities


Read the case of the UNDP Part 1
 Part 2 

Activating a Transformational Learning Culture


Read the case of the Red CrossRed Crescent Movement

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For Not-For-Profit and Impact

Supporting Restoration of Ecosystems and Communities


Read the case from Commonland

Rethinking and transforming agriculture in the Netherlands 


Read more about the Dutch Lab

Innovating in the Law and Justice sector in India


Read more

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For Cross-Sector

Transforming health care
across the world


Read the case of the World Health Organization
(WHO)
 Watch the film

Co-creating a seafood system vision and prototypes

Read the case of the Galápagos Islands

Innovating
for societal wellbeing

Read the case of the Global Wellbeing
and GNH Lab

Our Clients and Partners


We have generated results on a broad range of issues including public health, agriculture, regenerative business, education, humanitarian aid, philanthropy and other areas. Some of our key partners, past and present, include:

Partner with us


If you would like to become a partner to sponsor or support the work of ecosystem transformation, please contact us.

The Presencing Institute, a global non-profit, equips change-makers with innovative tools and methods for leading from the future as it emerges. Using our Theory U approach, we combine science, collective action, and creativity to drive systemic change, with hubs across Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. 

 
Presencing Institute LLC
1770 Massachusetts Ave. #221
Cambridge, MA 02140 - USA
 

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