Otto Scharmer (born 1961) is a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management,

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(MIT), and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and is the author/co-author of several books.

Biography

Scharmer studied economics at

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in Germany, receiving his diploma and eventually his PhD. In 2015 Otto co-founded the MITx u.lab, a

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with more than 140,000 users from 185 countries. He received the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT (2015), and the EU Leonardo Corporate Learning Award for the contributions of

Theory U Theory U is a change management method and the title of a book by Otto Scharmer. Scharmer with colleagues at MIT conducted 150 interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators in science, business, and society and then extended the basic principles i ...

to the future of management (2016). In 2017 he was ranked #1 of the world's top 30 education professionals by globalgurus.org.

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* * Living people MIT Sloan School of Management faculty 1961 births {{Academic-bio-stub