TRAIL - The Rizal Academy for Innovation and Leadership

Guest Faculty

Otto Scharmer

Dr. Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the Founding Chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders Innovate Across Sectors), a program linking twenty leading global institutions from business, government and civil society in order to prototype profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. He is also the Founding Chair of the Presencing Institute. He introduced the theoretical framework and practice called "presencing" in Theory U, in articles and his earlier book Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society (2005)


Peter Senge

Dr. Peter Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL). In addition to The Fifth Discipline, He is the co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (1994), The Dance of Change (1999); Schools That Learn (2000) and Presence (2004). He is widely known as one of the most innovative thinkers about management and leadership in the world.