Systems Change

We partner with foundations, collaborators, and communities to make sense of complex systems so that we can shift them toward healthy and more equitable outcomes.

Our systems change consulting supports those who are working on complex and dynamic issues. Using tools like systems mapping, causal loop diagramming, future scenario planning, emergent learning, and design thinking, we help teams to understand the systems they’re working with(in) so that they can identify effective pathways for change.

Related Work

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How to do Process Tracing: A Method for Testing “How Change Happened” in Complex and Dynamic Settings

Process tracing is a causal methodology that can help us to understand how change actually happened within a complex dynamic environment.

We need to articulate our assumptions so that we can test them. Here’s a guide to help.

This four-page guidance defines assumptions, explains why it is critical to articulate them, and then offers a set of prompting questions to help elicit them. Examples are included.

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