Noah Cantor
Noah started working in IT on a service desk 20+ years ago. He rapidly moved into back end systems, eventually being responsible for anything that had an electric current running through it. Over time he realised that solving technical problems didn't solve people's problems, and he started looking into psychology, group dynamics, systems thinking, and a lot more. Noah spent the last ~12 years looking at how organisations function, what they're trying to achieve, and helping them see what changes to make in order to actually get where they want to be.
Creating unity with systems thinking
20 min talk
The biggest challenge to changing how and organisation thinks is that most frequently, leadership aren't in agreement about what the problem is. The result is that everybody talking about possible solutions can only ever be partially successful, since only some of their audience will agree that the solution they're offering will solve the 'real' problem. By using systems thinking tools, connecting everybody's problems to each other, and visualising the result, it's possible to acknowledge all the problems that leaders are seeing, and connect them to something they can understand. This allows them to all agree on which problem to solve. Once we have that agreement, we can do the same thing for possible solutions, using logic and prediction to identify which interventions, at which points, are likely to work. When combined, this approach allows us to create a cohesive narrative and goal for leadership, which then makes effective change possible.