 Bruce Waltuck
Bruce Waltuck is an award-winning change leader, author, and consultant, President of Freethinc...For a Change, LLC.
Bruce Waltuck co-designed and led the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Involvement and Quality Improvement system, and he created a public-private partnership model that won a Silver Medal from the Government Innovation awards program. He later served as Senior Advisor for Process Improvement to the Administrator of a $3 billion per year grant-making agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Bruce has presented and taught throughout the , , , and . He has also published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and a primer on Complexity and Quality. Since leaving Federal Service, Bruce has consulted with a variety of public and private sector organizations as President of his own firm, Freethinc. . . For A Change.
Bruce holds a unique Masters in Complexity, Chaos, and Creativity from the University of Western Sydney.
Over the past few years Bruce has developed a framework for gathering and exploring stories of organizational change. Bruce is co-writing the book, FLUXed: Survive and Thrive in a World of Disruption and Uncertainty with , Consultant and CEO, The Complexity Space Consulting. Learn more about this project at www.getfluxed.com Bruce currently serves as a Director, The Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open). |
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"In 1993 or 1994, a friend handed me Margaret Wheatley's book, . Although I loved learning about quantum physics, I was at that time very into W. Edwards Deming and Total Quality Management (TQM). I handed back the book and said it seemed to have nothing to do with my work (oops!).
In 1998 I was on a trip with my son to . At the wonderful Exploratorium science museum, they had a featured exhibit on "turbulent landscapes" that included many hands-on displays about complex and chaotic forces in nature. |
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Playing with a large pendulum with a magnet on its tip, and other magnets on the table below it (that could be set to attract or repel the pendulum) I had a literally life-changing moment. In the wild oscillations of the pendulum, I knew the laws of physics were still working. But I saw not just pendulums and magnets, but a physical model of how people interact with ideas and with each other. I was hooked. Applying ideas from complexity science to the work of dialogue, change, and leadership, has been my core focus for more than ten years. I am an avid associate of the Plexus Institute, (I-Open Interview: ) which is where I met Valdis Krebs, CEO, Orgnet.com (I-Open Interview: ) and June Holley, (I-Open Interview: ) thought leader in Network Weaving."
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Bruce Waltuck is based in the Washington, D.C. area
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Read Bruce's blog, Complexified-Complexity, articles focused on change and leadership in systems at complexified.wordpress.com
Contact information: Bruce Waltuck, M.A., C, C, and C President & Owner, Freethinc. . . For A Change Services on Organizational Change, Employee and Labor Relations, Collaborative Dialogue, and Story-gathering for Insights and Action Box 15, Windsor, NJ 08561 Phone: Email: Website: www.freethinc.com Now tweeting |
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