Systems Change for Tech & Society Leaders
Course Participants
Everything you and your team need to move beyond tech hype and design strategies that drive real systems change—amidst uncertainty, across difference, and grounded in your vision for the future.
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I’ve led digital transformation in complex public institutions, built multi-stakeholder alliances for an equitable digital future, led an award-winning coalition against mis-and disinformation, and created a 500+ member peer-learning network of tech & society policymakers, scholars, and practitioners.
As I looked for concrete, practical systems change frameworks to guide my work, nothing hit the mark.
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They assumed certainty and neat causality — but my systems were uncertain and adaptive.
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They treated tech as the driver of change — but I saw how people, power, and tech continually shape one another.
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They reduced trust, power, and relationships to abstractions — when in fact, these are the levers of transformation.
That’s why I built Systems Change for Tech & Society Leaders, a live course with a 200+ page Playbook full of practical tools so that you can:
Cut through hype and see your system clearly
Anticipate how tech & power reshape your system under uncertainty
Align technology with your vision of the future, not the other way around
Craft interventions that shift behaviors and catalyze true systems change
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Audience: Responsible tech leaders in philanthropy and civil society; policy and product managers in trust & safety; technologists; consultants. Learn more.
What You Get: 4 interactive sessions, 1:1 coaching, 200-page Playbook, membership in private community of practice, and capstone project. Learn more.
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The Playbook: 200-page Playbook with 30+ tools and exercises to put key frameworks into immediate practice. Learn more.
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Organizational Offerings: Trainings and courses tailored to your organization's context. Learn more.
What you get
This is a highly-interactive two-day course that will give you tactics which you can immediately implement into your work. This includes:
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8 hours of live & interactive sessions where you’ll learn new strategies and frameworks that will get you out of your system funk, complete with hands-on practice in a lab-like environment and a subsequent Q&A session.
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200-page Playbook full of 30+ exercises & tools to help you put the course material immediately into practice.
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A 1:1 coaching session with me, where I can guide you through any obstacles that are specific to your situation
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Private membership in a community of practice for tech & society leaders grappling with how to shift their system amidst uncertainty and across difference. With participants from organizations like New_Public, Discord, Center for Tech & Civic Life, Siegel Family Endowment, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, LAist, and many more.
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Hands-on Capstone Project: You’ll develop a ‘Customized Systems Change Plan’ and get personalized feedback from me in the 1:1 coaching session.
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Bonus: you also get a free subscription to Untangled for a year!
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Who is this for?
Funders struggling to clearly align their public interest tech programs and grants towards collective action.
Mission driven leaders grappling with crafting strategies that align AI to their vision of the future, not the other way around.
Senior policy, product, or partnership managers aiming to shift the status quo inside your company on trust & safety issues.
Technologists who sees how people, power, and tech continually shape one another but need practical strategies and tools to guide their work.
Scholars, consultants, or ecosystem builders who already thinks in systems but needs frameworks to guide practical interventions.
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Course Structure
This course has four modules:
1. See Your System Clearly: The pace of tech change is dizzying, and uncertainty makes it hard to know where to focus. In this module, you’ll learn how to cut through the noise and see your system for what it is. You’ll map the key frames, power dynamics, information flows, feedback loops, and relationships that drive its behavior — and surface the blind spots that keep you and your system stuck.
You’ll walk away able to:
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Map the core parts of your system and how they interact
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Spot the narratives and frames that hide deeper dynamics
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Identify blind spots where interventions often fail
2. Anticipate System Shifts: Tech hype hides what’s really changing — and what’s not. In this module, you’ll learn to anticipate how your system is shifting by applying sociotechnical frameworks that show how people, power, and technology continually shape one another. You’ll build the capacity to spot genuine inflection points — and points of leverage!— rather than chasing the latest buzzword.
You’ll walk away able to:
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Distinguish hype from meaningful shifts in your system
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Use sociotechnical frameworks to analyze change
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Anticipate how tech and power co-evolve in practice
3. Reframe & Repurpose Your System: You now have the tools of systems change, but real-world contexts are full of differences — across teams, organizations, and cultures. This module equips you to align diverse groups around a common vision, negotiate across differences, and ensure technology is repurposed to serve your people and your purpose— not the other way around.
You’ll walk away able to:
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Reframe challenges to open new pathways for action
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Align diverse stakeholders around shared purpose
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Repurpose data & technology to serve your system’s goals, not override them
4. Reconfigure & Re-pattern Your System: With shared purpose in place, the challenge is reshaping how the system actually works. In this module, you’ll learn how to facilitate collective sensemaking, distribute decision-making, and shift feedback loops. You’ll practice translating across difference, using enabling constraints to foster new behaviors, and acting interdependently so that patterns of change take root and endure.
You’ll walk away able to:
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Facilitate collective sensemaking under uncertainty
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Design enabling constraints that spark new behaviors
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Shift feedback loops and decision-making to reinforce change
A Preview of The Playbook
Organizational Offerings
Your context shapes everything -- from how data and technology are perceived to how information flows to how power patterns the behavior and dynamics of your system etc.
I offer tailored courses and trainings to help your team and/or organization surface key assumptions about data and technology, build a shared understanding of how your system is changing (and what's holding it back!), and enable real coordination and collective action amidst uncertainty and across difference.
The course is for "tech & society leaders" but that is, increasingly...everyone. Every organization I talk to right now is feeling the vertigo of technological change. Everyone’s being told to come up with an “AI strategy,” but that’s the wrong question. The better one is: What future do we want to realize? What needs to change in our system to move in that direction? And how might AI help — or hinder — that?
And I can help you answer that.
What else?
Price: $950
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