Margaret Wheatley

Margaret Wheatley, Ed.D. writes, teaches, and speaks about how we might organize and accomplish our work in chaotic times, and willingly step forward to serve. She is co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation that works in partnership with a rich diversity of people around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions and environment. Meg has written five books: Leadership and the New Science (in twenty languages and third edition), Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future (7 languages and second edition 2009,) A Simpler Way (with Myron Rogers), Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, and Perseverance. Her numerous articles appear in both professional and popular journals and may be downloaded free from her website. Meg received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Change from Harvard University, and a Masters in Media Ecology from New York University. She has been a global citizen since her youth, serving in the Peace Corps in Korea in the 1960s. She was a practicing consultant for more than 30 years to an unusually diverse variety of organizations on all continents. She travels the world willingly, speaking and teaching in organizations, communities, universities, churches and at conferences. She lives in the mountains of Utah; her large family is now dispersed throughout the U.S.