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Featured Speaker
SenseMaking for ChangeMaking
Before change happens, new seeing happens, new understanding happens, new thinking happens.
Elizabeth Pastor, Co-Founder, Partner, Humantific
SenseMaking and ChangeMaking have become equally important partners in the quest to create a more human-centered world. Humantific, the consultancy Elizabeth Pastor co-founded, was an early pioneer in the application of design thinking to transformation in organizational and social contexts. Many challenges facing organizations, societies, and ultimately our planet, cannot be solved by creating more products and services. Pastor believes that SenseMaking has become the 21st century fuel for ChangeMaking!
Biography: Elizabeth Pastor
Elizabeth Pastor is Co-founder of Humantific and Director of its UnderstandingLab. She is a consultant, facilitator, and trainer with a unique expertise in Visual SenseMaking and Strategic Co-Creation. Her passion lies in helping people learn, understand and make sense of complex situations in new and inclusive ways.
Humantific is a new breed of SenseMaking-based Transformation Consultancy based in New York City. Working with a hybrid toolbox, Humantific helps clients construct new value by creating pathways through fuzzy strategic complexity of all kinds by communicating complex ideas, and by building more human-centered organizations that maximize collective brainpower and are adaptable to continuous change. Clients include large Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups such as UNIFEM, American Human Development Project, OXFAM, Sermo Physician Network, Pfizer, VHA Hospital Group, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, EDS, and Majestic Research, among others.
Prior to founding Humantific, Elizabeth co-founded Scient’s Innovation Acceleration Labs with GK VanPatter. At Scient, they created Scient’s Innovation Acceleration Lab in New York and San Francisco, designing a variety of cross-disciplinary learning experiences which have reached more than 2,000 colleagues globally.
Elizabeth holds a Masters Degree from Art Center College of Design in California, where she focused on the power of information design to enhance the learning process. Her present research involves SenseMaking for ChangeMaking in social and organizational contexts. Elizabeth speaks frequently at conferences globally. She is a native of Madrid and lives in New York City.
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