An original thinker and initiator, Nilima Bhat is an expert in leadership, organizational culture, conscious business, and self-awareness for work-life balance based on Indian wisdom and wellness traditions. She is also an advocate of gender equity and women in leadership.

Nilima worked for over 10 years for renowned brands such as ESPN STAR Sports, Philips India, and ITC-Welcomgroup in the areas of Corporate Communications and PR.

As the Founder-Director of Shakti Leadership, and an expert in leadership, gender equity, and well-being, Nilima has given workshops and training in leadership for Microsoft, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Societe Generale Bank, Vodafone, and YPO, as well as academic institutions and organizations like the Indus International School and SKS Microfinance.

She is an active supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement and Women’s International Networking (WIN).

Nilima is a certified yoga teacher from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and is a teacher-practitioner of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. 
 
In addition, her work focuses on being a facilitator of personal transformation for individuals and organizations in their journey toward conscious growth. She studies and teaches a model of regenerative systems that impacts social relations from a wide range of topics: social enterprises, personal mastery, self-care, and self-love.

The most important aspect of her work and life is sharing how to navigate the journey toward personal mastery and selfless service since it can lead to free and fulfilled lives and environments for everyone. Her focus is on developing Body Intelligence (BQ), which is the ability to become aware of the body and how it responds to changes in order to achieve well-being, and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), which involves more self-awareness and reflection toward a life of purpose or meaning.

With her association with Hong Kong University’s Centre for Behavioral Health, she learned, developed, and practiced an Integrative Medicine Model, Sampurnah (meaning ‘Wholeness’), to help patients heal through cancer and other lifestyle diseases.

One of her projects is the ‘Shakti Fellowship’, with the University of San Diego, WIN, and Skolkovo FLOW, with the purpose of empowering 100,000 women changemakers by 2030.

She has also initiated and co-convened the Truth & Reconciliation movement for healing collective trauma and leading harmonious interdependence at a planetary level.

She is an international keynote speaker at conferences on mindfulness, women's leadership, gender sensitization, and happiness at work, in countries like the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Israel, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and India.

Nilima Bhat has written two books, Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business and My Cancer Is Me – The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. They both establish an integrated approach to DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging), leadership, well-being, and resilience.

The book Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business was co-written with fellow Faculty of Excellence professor from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Raj Sisodia. It explains a type of leadership that is cooperative, creative, inclusive, empathetic, and assertive, which allows people to live and lead in balance and consciousness.

At a time when the world is looking for new models, Shakti Leadership has been referenced in many multilateral organizations and audiences such as the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, UN, World Bank, and IMF.

Due to her experience, she has served on the advisory board of MixR, 20-first, and Peace Through Commerce. Shakti Leadership is also recognized as a Home For Humanity. 

She received the INDICA Cultural-Changemaker Fellowship Award for initiating the Shakti Kumbh, the world’s first Kumbh Mela for Women, showcasing ancient spiritual traditions of the Divine Feminine. 

In 2022, Nilima was conferred an Honorary PhD by Jharkhand Rai University, India, for her “iconic and outstanding contribution in the field of Women Empowerment”.  

Nilima Bhat joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Gender and Conscious Leadership for the Business School, EGADE Business School, and the School of Humanities and Education since September 2023.

• PG Diploma, Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai 
• BSc, Life Sciences and Biochemistry, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

• Bhat, N., & Sisodia, R. (2016). Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

• Bhat, V., & Bhat, N. (2013). My cancer is me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. Hay House Publishing.

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An original thinker and initiator, Nilima Bhat is an expert in leadership, organizational culture, conscious business, and self-awareness for work-life balance based on Indian wisdom and wellness traditions. She is also an advocate of gender equity and women in leadership.

Nilima worked for over 10 years for renowned brands such as ESPN STAR Sports, Philips India, and ITC-Welcomgroup in the areas of Corporate Communications and PR.

As the Founder-Director of Shakti Leadership, and an expert in leadership, gender equity, and well-being, Nilima has given workshops and training in leadership for Microsoft, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Societe Generale Bank, Vodafone, and YPO, as well as academic institutions and organizations like the Indus International School and SKS Microfinance.

She is an active supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement and Women’s International Networking (WIN).

Nilima is a certified yoga teacher from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and is a teacher-practitioner of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. 
 
In addition, her work focuses on being a facilitator of personal transformation for individuals and organizations in their journey toward conscious growth. She studies and teaches a model of regenerative systems that impacts social relations from a wide range of topics: social enterprises, personal mastery, self-care, and self-love.

The most important aspect of her work and life is sharing how to navigate the journey toward personal mastery and selfless service since it can lead to free and fulfilled lives and environments for everyone. Her focus is on developing Body Intelligence (BQ), which is the ability to become aware of the body and how it responds to changes in order to achieve well-being, and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), which involves more self-awareness and reflection toward a life of purpose or meaning.

With her association with Hong Kong University’s Centre for Behavioral Health, she learned, developed, and practiced an Integrative Medicine Model, Sampurnah (meaning ‘Wholeness’), to help patients heal through cancer and other lifestyle diseases.

One of her projects is the ‘Shakti Fellowship’, with the University of San Diego, WIN, and Skolkovo FLOW, with the purpose of empowering 100,000 women changemakers by 2030.

She has also initiated and co-convened the Truth & Reconciliation movement for healing collective trauma and leading harmonious interdependence at a planetary level.

She is an international keynote speaker at conferences on mindfulness, women's leadership, gender sensitization, and happiness at work, in countries like the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Israel, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and India.

Nilima Bhat has written two books, Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business and My Cancer Is Me – The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. They both establish an integrated approach to DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging), leadership, well-being, and resilience.

The book Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business was co-written with fellow Faculty of Excellence professor from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Raj Sisodia. It explains a type of leadership that is cooperative, creative, inclusive, empathetic, and assertive, which allows people to live and lead in balance and consciousness.

At a time when the world is looking for new models, Shakti Leadership has been referenced in many multilateral organizations and audiences such as the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, UN, World Bank, and IMF.

Due to her experience, she has served on the advisory board of MixR, 20-first, and Peace Through Commerce. Shakti Leadership is also recognized as a Home For Humanity. 

She received the INDICA Cultural-Changemaker Fellowship Award for initiating the Shakti Kumbh, the world’s first Kumbh Mela for Women, showcasing ancient spiritual traditions of the Divine Feminine. 

In 2022, Nilima was conferred an Honorary PhD by Jharkhand Rai University, India, for her “iconic and outstanding contribution in the field of Women Empowerment”.  

Nilima Bhat joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Gender and Conscious Leadership for the Business School, EGADE Business School, and the School of Humanities and Education since September 2023.

• PG Diploma, Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai 
• BSc, Life Sciences and Biochemistry, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

• Bhat, N., & Sisodia, R. (2016). Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

• Bhat, V., & Bhat, N. (2013). My cancer is me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. Hay House Publishing.

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Dr. Steven Popper is a professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, where he teaches courses such as Complex Adaptive Systems and Policy Analysis; Participatory Foresight for Democratic Governance and Social Change; Technology Foresight and Policy Analysis; and Robust Decision Making.

For more than 37 years, he was a senior economist at RAND Corporation in the United States, a nonprofit institution that develops innovative solutions to public policy challenges and decision-making problems.

Steven Popper served as associate director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute, where he directed studies on critical technology issues for the White House (1996-2001) and also served as chair of the Industrial Science and Technology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In addition, he has also served on several advisory boards including the Ohio State University Battelle Center for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and has been a consultant to the World Bank and the OECD.

His areas of research experience include strategy, planning and decision-making under deep uncertainty; energy and transportation planning; national science and technology policy; technology-based regional economic development; comparative strategies for managing technological change; economic system transitions; international security and defense; defense industrial bases; and strategic competition.

He was co-founder and chief operating officer at Evolving Logic Inc., a company that created the revolutionary Computer Assisted Reasoning system (CARs) and a methodology called RAP™ (Robust Adaptive Planning), which addresses complex decision-making. He was the founding chair for education and training of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) and is currently the Society’s chair for finance.

He also served on several academic and international boards such as the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, the Israel Innovation Institute, and the U.S. National Research Council, among others.

He is a frequently invited keynote speaker and lecturer. Recent presentations include those to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the U.K. Ministry of Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and the P.R.C. Ministry of Science and Technology on topics such as foresight, transformational recovery, and the quantitative and qualitative application of Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty concepts, to name some.

Steven Popper has co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed books and monographs and more than 20 papers and articles on topics ranging from game-changing technologies, future and foresight studies, and socioeconomic analysis, to security, innovation, risk management, government policy-related issues, Robust Decision Making, and Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, among others.

One of his publications, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (2003, RAND MR-1626), for which he was co-principal investigator along with Robert J. Lempert and Steven C. Bankes, provides a methodological framework for decision-making under deep uncertainty that has been applied to several policy-related issues as Robust Decision Making.

He has been recognized with several awards such as the RAND Innovation Spotlight Award for the Exploratory Policy Analysis Tool (ExPAT, 2022) and being named a Harold and Colene Brown Faculty Fellow by the Pardee RAND Graduate School (2016). He was also the recipient of the RAND Bronze Metal Award (2014), the RAND Silver Metal Award (2008), and elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005).

Steven Popper joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished University Professor in Decision Sciences for the School of Social Sciences and Government.

• Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• B.Sc., Biochemistry, University of Minnesota

• Systematic Method for Prioritizing Investments in Game-Changing Technologies: The Evaluation and Comparison Process Framework, with Richard Silberglitt, Cynthia R. Cook, Lisa Pelled Colabella, Paul Dreyer, Eric Hastings, Alexander C. Hou, Alexis Levedahl, Edward Parker, Scott Savitz, and Li Ang Zhang, RAND Corporation, RR-A632-1, 2022.

• Use of Predictive Analytic Tools to Assess Technological Emergences and Acquisition Targets, with Richard Silberglitt, Anna Jean Wirth, Christopher A. Eusebi, Inez Khan, Jasmin Léveillé. RAND Corporation, RR-A539-2, 2022

• Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty: From Theory to Practice, with Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen (eds.), Springer International Publishing (10.1007/978-3-030-05252-2), 2019.

• “Designing a Robust Decision–Based National Security Policy Process: Strategic Choices for Uncertain Times”, in Frank, A.B. and E.M. Bartels (eds.), Adaptive Engagement for Undergoverned Spaces: Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects for New Approaches, 2022.

• “Forecasts and decisions: A commentary on Lustick and Tetlock”, with Robert J. Lempert, Paul K. Davis, Tim McDonald, in Futures and Foresight Science 3 (2), June 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.81 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ffo2.81>

• China's Propensity for Innovation in the 21st Century: Identifying Indicators of Future Outcomes, with Marjory S. Blumenthal, Eugeniu Han, Sale Lilly, Lyle J. Morris, Caroline S. Wagner, Christopher A. Eusebi, Brian G. Carlson, and Alice Shih, RAND Corporation, RR-A208-1, 2020.

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Dr. Steven Popper is a professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, where he teaches courses such as Complex Adaptive Systems and Policy Analysis; Participatory Foresight for Democratic Governance and Social Change; Technology Foresight and Policy Analysis; and Robust Decision Making.

For more than 37 years, he was a senior economist at RAND Corporation in the United States, a nonprofit institution that develops innovative solutions to public policy challenges and decision-making problems.

Steven Popper served as associate director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute, where he directed studies on critical technology issues for the White House (1996-2001) and also served as chair of the Industrial Science and Technology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In addition, he has also served on several advisory boards including the Ohio State University Battelle Center for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and has been a consultant to the World Bank and the OECD.

His areas of research experience include strategy, planning and decision-making under deep uncertainty; energy and transportation planning; national science and technology policy; technology-based regional economic development; comparative strategies for managing technological change; economic system transitions; international security and defense; defense industrial bases; and strategic competition.

He was co-founder and chief operating officer at Evolving Logic Inc., a company that created the revolutionary Computer Assisted Reasoning system (CARs) and a methodology called RAP™ (Robust Adaptive Planning), which addresses complex decision-making. He was the founding chair for education and training of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) and is currently the Society’s chair for finance.

He also served on several academic and international boards such as the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, the Israel Innovation Institute, and the U.S. National Research Council, among others.

He is a frequently invited keynote speaker and lecturer. Recent presentations include those to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the U.K. Ministry of Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and the P.R.C. Ministry of Science and Technology on topics such as foresight, transformational recovery, and the quantitative and qualitative application of Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty concepts, to name some.

Steven Popper has co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed books and monographs and more than 20 papers and articles on topics ranging from game-changing technologies, future and foresight studies, and socioeconomic analysis, to security, innovation, risk management, government policy-related issues, Robust Decision Making, and Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty, among others.

One of his publications, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (2003, RAND MR-1626), for which he was co-principal investigator along with Robert J. Lempert and Steven C. Bankes, provides a methodological framework for decision-making under deep uncertainty that has been applied to several policy-related issues as Robust Decision Making.

He has been recognized with several awards such as the RAND Innovation Spotlight Award for the Exploratory Policy Analysis Tool (ExPAT, 2022) and being named a Harold and Colene Brown Faculty Fellow by the Pardee RAND Graduate School (2016). He was also the recipient of the RAND Bronze Metal Award (2014), the RAND Silver Metal Award (2008), and elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005).

Steven Popper joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished University Professor in Decision Sciences for the School of Social Sciences and Government.

• Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• B.Sc., Biochemistry, University of Minnesota

• Systematic Method for Prioritizing Investments in Game-Changing Technologies: The Evaluation and Comparison Process Framework, with Richard Silberglitt, Cynthia R. Cook, Lisa Pelled Colabella, Paul Dreyer, Eric Hastings, Alexander C. Hou, Alexis Levedahl, Edward Parker, Scott Savitz, and Li Ang Zhang, RAND Corporation, RR-A632-1, 2022.

• Use of Predictive Analytic Tools to Assess Technological Emergences and Acquisition Targets, with Richard Silberglitt, Anna Jean Wirth, Christopher A. Eusebi, Inez Khan, Jasmin Léveillé. RAND Corporation, RR-A539-2, 2022

• Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty: From Theory to Practice, with Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen (eds.), Springer International Publishing (10.1007/978-3-030-05252-2), 2019.

• “Designing a Robust Decision–Based National Security Policy Process: Strategic Choices for Uncertain Times”, in Frank, A.B. and E.M. Bartels (eds.), Adaptive Engagement for Undergoverned Spaces: Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects for New Approaches, 2022.

• “Forecasts and decisions: A commentary on Lustick and Tetlock”, with Robert J. Lempert, Paul K. Davis, Tim McDonald, in Futures and Foresight Science 3 (2), June 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.81 <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ffo2.81>

• China's Propensity for Innovation in the 21st Century: Identifying Indicators of Future Outcomes, with Marjory S. Blumenthal, Eugeniu Han, Sale Lilly, Lyle J. Morris, Caroline S. Wagner, Christopher A. Eusebi, Brian G. Carlson, and Alice Shih, RAND Corporation, RR-A208-1, 2020.

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Dr. Peter Jones is an associate professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD University (OCAD U), in Toronto, Canada, in the Master of Design graduate programs. He teaches systemic and service design and mixed methods research for healthcare, information services, policy, and governance. 

He is the founder of Redesign Network, a renowned innovation research consultancy with a focus on professional practices and policy platforms; co-founder and academic director of the Flourishing Enterprise Institute, a research group that develops and teaches systemic management innovations for sustainability governance, urban planning, and complex public policy; and co-founder and board member of the Systemic Design Association (SDA) and its RSD (Relating Systems Thinking and Design) Symposium, which have become leading research networks in design for complexity.

His design experience ranges from user experience and evaluation to complete online platforms for leading information providers in the commercial, government, non-profit, and academic sectors. He has also led society-driven initiatives to make a change through design. For example, he was co-founder and board member of Regenerate Toronto, where he created the “Drawdown” program (2019-2022) for community education and systemic action on climate change.

Peter Jones’ research provides the basis to advise organizations in systems leadership and transformational change. His research agenda is largely focused on the theory and application of systemic design in highly complex domains such as healthcare and public sector management.

He is a leading scholar in dialogic design and collaborative foresight for addressing complex future challenges. He is also known for his work in soft services design for communities and health; collaborative foresight for complex challenges; flourishing cultures and economies (eco-social, strongly sustainable); and organizational learning and innovation, among other areas.

Since 2008, Peter Jones has been granted funding for several projects about systemic design in healthcare, decision-making in municipal planning, and futures and foresight, mainly in Canada.

He has been a regular speaker at international scholarly and professional conferences and workshops about topics involving systemic change, design, system design and research methods focused on education, healthcare, and society, in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Canada, the United States, India, and China, to name some.

He is editor-in-chief of the new SDA journal Contexts: The Systemic Design Journal, widely published in this field. He is also a reviewer for She Ji, Systems, Form Akademisk, Organization and Environment, Information, and other journals.

Additionally, he is also the RSD Proceedings editor-in-chief, where he has organized regular special issue collections curated from the RSD Symposium series, and section editor for chapters submitted to the Systemic Design section of the Springer: Handbook of Systems Sciences.

Peter Jones has written four books about design and innovation, the most recent ones being Design Journeys through Complex Systems (BIS Publishers, 2022) and Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience (Rosenfeld Media, 2013).

He is recognized for his contributions to systemic design, like the creation of new systemic methodologies such as the Systemic Design Toolkit, Systemic Theories of Change, and the Flourishing Business Canvas.

Peter Jones joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Systemic Design for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., lnterdisciplinary Studies, Design and lnnovation Management, Union lnstitute.
• M.A., Experimental Psychology, Human Factors, University of Dayton.
• B.A., Psychology, Wright State University.

• Jones, Peter & Arun Kumar, Pranay. (2023). Formative Interventions for Healthcare Sustainability: A Developmental Design Agenda. 10.1007/978-3-031-20168-4_11. 

• Jones, P.H. and Van Ael, K. (2022). Design Journeys through Complex Systems. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers.

• Jones, P. & Barbero, s. (2022). The multi-order complexity of transdisciplinary communication. Contexts, 1.

• Waddock, S., Waddell, S., Jones, P. H., & Kendrick, I. (2022). Convening Transformation Systems to Achieve System Transformation. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2(1), 77-100.

• Murphy, R.J. & Jones, P. (2021). Towards systemic theories of change: High-leverage strategies for managing wicked problems. Design Management Journal, 16(1), 49-65.

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