Michael Goodman

Michael R Goodman is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and practitioner in the fields of Systems Thinking, Organizational Learning and Change, and Leadership. Michael Goodman’s main focus is transferring the learning disciplines into organizations to sustain their capacity for learning and change. He also helped create many of the innovations in the field of Systems Thinking that has made it more accessible to organizational leaders.

Mr. Goodman draws on over 40 years of expertise to create curriculum, lead courses and training in the arena of organizational learning and change, and help clients (both for profit as well as nonprofit) apply systems approaches to their critical organizational issues. He has published widely, authoring one of the first textbooks in the field, Study Notes in Systems Dynamics, and serving as the primary contributor to the Systems Thinking section in the acclaimed Fifth Discipline Fieldbook by Peter M Senge.

Michael has also contributed numerous chapters to the books The Dance of Change and Schools that Learn. He contributed to the recently published Systems Thinking for Social Change by David Stroh and has also published a variety of articles on applying systems thinking and system dynamics in areas from culture change to health care.