Thought Leader Gathering: Member Profile

 

Bill Veltrop
PathFinders
1450 Hidden Valley Road
Soquel, CA 95073
831-462-1992

 

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Bill VeltropBILL VELTROP
PATHFINDERS
billveltrop@earthlink.net
http://BillVeltrop.com

BIOGRAPHY
Bill Veltrop is a coach and architect of generative change, i.e., he specializes in evolving change strategies that are life-giving for those social forms we call organizations. He works with committed leaders and practitioners in the co-creative design of interventions, practices and processes that weave the special work of learning, development and change into the fabric of an organization’s culture.

Bill’s professional background includes over 30 years of innovative organization design and large-scale change implementation experience in the US, Canada, Europe and the Far East, both as an internal and external consultant. To get a feel for the texture of that journey check out A Bit About Bill.

In 1990, Bill founded The International Center for Organization Design, a network of leading-edge change champions committed to supporting global business transformation.

In 1998, he and Marilyn Veltrop co-founded Pathfinders and have since been dedicating themselves to evolving generative approaches to inner/outer transformation.

For the last several years Bill has been evolving a web site, TheInfiniteGames.org, that makes his evolving body of work (theory, lenses, design principles, distinctions, stories, etc.) more broadly available to his field.

Bill and FireHawk are currently working on an interactive eBook, Designing for Life, as a part of a pioneering initiative to catalyze a Bay Area movement toward regional wholeness.

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
Generative Change: Growing the Capactiy to Change—Naturally
Discovering a Generative Path to Organizational Change
The Evolutionary Times: A Fable
Proven Technologies for Transformation

WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING?
What gets me up more than anything else is having yet another opportunity to co-create—to partner with diverse other infinite players in evolving games that are truly worth playing. I like Barbara Marx Hubbard’s comparison of co-creation with procreation and the special joys of initiating each. Each morning is a new beginning. I love beginnings.