School of System Change

We know that growing a global community of change agents is our best chance to accelerate a transition to a sustainable future. Want to know more?

Marieke Verhagen

Chief Learning Officer of Transition Academy, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT)
@MariekeVerhagen

Leading DRIFT’s education offer, Marieke focuses on accessibility, participants’ connectivity and multiple ways of teaching & learning (beyond ‘cognitive’). Offering tools and contributing to the awareness that in all our diversity we are all one and are better for acting like that as well. Marieke creates a safe (online) space for people with multifaceted backgrounds, unknown to each other, to learn from each other and about themselves in order to shape a more socially sustainable and peaceful world together. Starting in 2007 using complex systems as a door to open people's mind, she turned into an experienced researcher, teacher, organiser, facilitator and coach in sustainability transitions and complex systems.

"What excites me most is letting people experience that is is possible to organise their/our world and live their lives differently. It fills me with joy to facilitate the process and to witness people really 'grokking' this: embodying another way of relating to themselves and their environment"

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Can hydrogen bring about true transformation of our energy systems?

Growing interest in hydrogen’s potential as an alternative to fossil fuels has been rising. But does hydrogen, as an energy carrier, support our most hopeful imaginations? In this blog we examine whether hydrogen's development and deployment represent innovation or familiarity.
Project Funding Finance and Operations Manager
Advancing climate justice: A call to action for businesses

Explore the insights from The Business Guide to Advancing Climate Justice, co-published by Forum for the Future and B Lab U.S. and Canada, with reflections from Ksenia Benifand, American Climate Futures’ Program Director.
Shape Just Transition Pathways

There are a multitude of decarbonisation solutions and many technically possible pathways to achieving net-zero, but there is a risk that some pathways will be incremental and others may perpetuate harm to people and the planet. We enable change actors in the energy system to navigate the evolving energy landscape that is being driven by innovation in energy technologies, business models and government policy.

School of System Change in Finance

School of System Change in Finance, launched by Aviva Investors in partnership with Forum for the Future and the School of System Change, is a course for inspired and ambitious leaders from across the finance system who are keen to contribute to wider change in the finance industry and to build their own capacity to drive deep change for sustainability.
Zoya Lukyanova

Zoya is a skilled facilitator and ecosystem enabler for impact driven networks, cross-sector collaborations and social innovation. She is a network partner for the School of System Change in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, facilitating learning experiences and cultivating the field in this region.
Delta: Introduction to Systems Change

Introducing a five-week introductory dive into systems change equips change makers with frameworks and tools to increase their capacity to work more systemically on complex challenges
Joy Green

Joy is deeply experienced in using Futures for system change. She has fifteen years experience of applying foresight and system change methodologies across a wide range of sectors and organisations.
Spark Retreat

Spark Retreat is a in-person learning offering focused on supporting leadership, facilitation and practice for system change practitioners in October 2022.
Marion Birnstill

Marion is a seasoned global health and partnering professional with 15 years’ experience spanning a career working for leading organisations across the private, public and non-profit sectors.
Basecamp for Health System Transformation 2022

Do you want to create positive change for health systems? The School of System Change, with the Johnson & Johnson Foundation, is accepting applications for a six-month course that will equip you with the skills to lead transformational change.
Module 3 - Learning & Impact

This module explores the landscape of different approaches to understanding and tracking systemic learning and impact, and what it takes to create a learning culture/organisation.
Module 2 - Funder Strategies for Systems Change

This module explores different systemic strategies that can be cultivated in order to impact change.
Module 1 - Funding in a Complex World

This module provides frameworks and concepts in systems diagnosis practice to help you better understand complexity and uncertainty as a funder.

The Five Capitals - a framework for sustainability

The Five Capitals Model provides a basis for understanding sustainability in terms of the economic concept of wealth creation or ‘capital’. Any organisation will use five types of capital to deliver its products or services. A sustainable organisation will maintain and where possible enhance these stocks of capital assets, rather than deplete or degrade them.
Jobs

We are a growing organisation and we are regularly on the look out for new recruits to join our teams around the world.
For a just and regenerative future

Forum for the Future is a leading international sustainability organisation running out of offices in the UK, US, India and Singapore.
Growing our Future US

Working together to accelerate the transition to a just and regenerative agriculture system in the United States.
Sustainability and system change

Climate change, malnutrition, inequality, poverty, ecological degradation. The global challenges we face are so urgent and tricky that we need a solution to match their scale and complexity. This is where system change comes in. We use systems thinking to understand the web of interrelations that create complex problems, anticipate unintended consequences, and identify how and where to take action to meet the SDG goals.
What is Net Positive?

We reinvent strategies for a 1.5°C world. Our Net Positive approach helps business put back more into society and environment than it takes out. Unilever’s pioneering commitment to eliminate fossil fuels from its operations and directly support the generation of more renewable energy than they consume was driven behind the scenes by Forum.
Transport or Mobility: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Recently, the word transportation is being replaced with mobility. Why is this happening? What’s the difference between them? And why should we care about this change?
Become a system change agent

Learn more about upcoming system change programmes and express your interest.
6 ways Unilever has achieved success through sustainability - and how your business can too

A year ago this week, Unilever launched its Sustainable Living Plan (USLP), one of the most ambitious strategies that a global company has ever embarked on. Pioneering a bold new business model, the company pledged to double in size at the same time as halving its environmental footprint.
Transforming the Purpose of Business

More and more businesses like are setting ambitious targets for positive impact on their operations, value chains and wider operating context. For more than 25 years we have partnered with businesses to navigate this complexity and design impactful solutions that deliver the deeper change that’s needed. Why not get in touch to find out more?