C. Otto Scharmer
MIT lecturer and presencing author
C. Otto Scharmer teaches at MIT and introduced the idea of presencing, set out in his bestselling book Theory U.
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German Born 1961
About C. Otto Scharmer
Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and helped found the Presencing Institute. Presencing, which means learning from the emerging future, is the idea behind Theory U and Presence, a book he wrote with Peter Senge and others. He co-founded the online MITx u.lab in 2015. GAIA, short for Global Activation of Intention and Action, began in 2020 at the Presencing Institute as a free six-week online journey. He also wrote The Essentials of Theory U, which deals with awareness-based systems change. His honors include the Jamieson Prize for teaching excellence at MIT and the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award. He is also a member of the World Future Council.