David Bent

I am experience system change agent and executive exploring how I can advise, initiate and/or lead institutional interventions that accelerate the evolution of our global society toward a sustainable footing. My purpose*. Part of a generation that puts global society on a sustainable footing, based on a ‘living system’ paradigm-in-action, which means: - People have capabilities they need to choose how they want to thrive. - Social and planetary systems no longer over-whelmed. My role*. Be part of the ‘innovation function’ we need to accelerate the evolution of how society is organised, meaning: - The interplay of economics, law, politics and more that set the operating context for activities, both formally economic and beyond, of individuals and organisations. - The dominant beliefs which are expressed in that interplay. What’s next*. Make strategic contributions to institutional intervention(s) that accelerate that evolution by testing ways to put a ‘living system’ paradigm into practice. - By ‘institutional intervention’, I mean an organisation that is a systemic effort to evolve towards living systems-in-practice. It could be single issue or wide-ranging, large or small, existing or new. The key thing is that it is testing and demonstrating a way of being that is deeply rooted in a living system paradigm, and so, if successful, opens up a path to a sustainable footing. - And my ‘strategic contribution’ could be advising as a consultant, initiating as an entrepreneur or leading as a senior executive. *=my current understanding, which I’m sure will evolve with experiences. More: https://davidbent.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/leaving-forum-starting-somethings/