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The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
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The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on industrial models of production and power, are not helping. They are designed to entrench the status quo. The "Systems Work of Social Change" draws on 200 years of history and a treasure trove of stories of committed social change-makers to uncover principles and practices for social change that radically depart from industrial approaches.
In this presentation, Cynthia Rayner will dive into the principles and practices of 'systems work' approaches that harness connection, context, and power while ensuring broader agency for people and communities to create social systems that are responsive and representative rapidly changing world.
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Cynthia Rayner
Researcher, Writer, and Lecturer
Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.
Cynthia Rayner is a researcher, writer, and lecturer affiliated with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on how organizations and communities shape social systems in collective ways. Cynthia's work in social change began when she joined the LGT Impact Fellowship as a recovering management consultant, which brought her to South Africa for more than a decade. She has served in several organizations, including Generation Ubuntu, an afterschool program educating children in Cape Town; mothers2mothers, an African social enterprise employing women to guide other women to good health; and the Starfish Greathearts Foundation, nonprofit supporting children and families in South Africa. Cynthia holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MBA from INSEAD, and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Cape Town University. She lives in Austin, Texas.