Alfonso Montuori on Envisioning and Creating a More Desirable Future
First Friday with a Thought Leader, featuring:
Alfonso Montuori
Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies & Principal, Evolutionary Strategies
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Friday, October 6, 2023
Theme: How can leaders and teams envision and create a more desirable future?
Alfonso shared: How can leaders and teams envision and create a more desirable future? As I am sure you can all appreciate, there are challenges in thinking about a compelling future. In his book of essays, Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, many scholars and practitioners share their perspectives on engaging in the creative thinking necessary to envision a more desirable future.
Alfonso Montuori, Ph.D. is an educator, consultant, and musician. With an Italian father and Dutch mother, Alfonso was born in the Netherlands, an Italian citizen, and grew up a “third culture kid” living in Lebanon, Greece, and England. He studied at the University of London before moving to the US in his mid-20s to go to graduate school. In the mid-'80s he taught at the Central South University in Hunan, China. Alfonso is the author of several books and numerous articles on the future, epistemology, creativity, leadership, transdisciplinarity, complexity, and education, most recently co-editing the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures with TSD alumna Gabrielle Donnelly. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and Chinese. Alfonso is Co-Editor of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, and on the editorial board of numerous academic journals. Alfonso has consulted with organizations and individuals in the US, Europe, and Asia on creativity, complexity and leadership development. He worked as a musician in London performing and recording with several bands, and also started his own indie record label, Banana Records, in 1979. He has performed with or produced artists including Roy Hargrove, Joe Henderson, Joe Louis Walker, Charles Brown, and Aztec Camera. An active musician and voting member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys), he still performs and records, and collaborates with his wife, award-winning jazz singer Kitty Margolis, playing saxophone in her band and co-producing her recordings.
