The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) is an American organization founded in 1997 by

Peter Senge Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. ...

. It replaced the Center for

Organizational Learning Organizational learning is the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization. An organization improves over time as it gains experience. From this experience, it is able to create knowledge. This knowledge is bro ...

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. Since 1999, SoL publishes its own journal, "Reflections". Its European Counterpart was the European Consortium for the Learning Organisation (ECLO), established in Brussels in 1990. It was founded by several European multinationals as a response to the US orientated approach of Peter Senge with a special emphasis to the European complexity of regions, nations, history, tradition, etc. Its Journal "The Learner" and its electronic version "eLearner" were among the oldest publications in this field. SoL communities have emerged around the world, including in France, Sweden, and Singapore. Global coordination of SoL is done by the GASC (Global Association of SoL Communities), also known as Global SoL. This non-profit organisation creates a society of members dedicated to respecting the principles of SOL in the objective of achieving interdependent development of one another. These principles revolve around well-being and performance, a drive to learn, transparency, the need to align with nature, cross-organizational, cross-cultural and cross-generational collaboration, as well as the belief that learning is social.

Sustainability Consortium

SoL had a "Sustainability Consortium" which helped large corporations including

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, Seventh Generation, and

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share ideas and tackle common issues related to

sustainability Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...

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(May 2007)
"Becoming Sustainable: Tools and Resources for Successful Organizational Transformation."
Case Western University,

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, Vol. III, Issue II. The ECLO regularly cooperated with

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s to promote the idea of sustainable learning, conceptualizing projects, and disseminating its results.

Sustainability Consortium

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