Tatiana Glad is a social entrepreneur, sustainability practitioner and change strategist. She works across sectors and cultures to develop life-affirming and resilient leadership for whole systems innovation. She is passionate about systemic change, sustainability, water, enabling start-up initiatives/enterprises, creating synergies, good questions and meaningful conversations.
Tatiana is a partner of Engage! InterAct (www.engagency.nl), co-founder of Waterlution (www.waterlution.org), and initiator of The Hub in The Netherlands. Tatiana holds a MSc in Responsibility & Business Practice and a dual degree in International Business & Entrepreneurship, and is a fellow of the Art of Hosting (www.artofhosting.org), an Associate of both Pioneers of Change (www.pioneersofchange.net) and the Association of Sustainability Practitioners. Her background is diverse and multi-sectored: spanning work in a global financial institution, a family-run manufacturer, a national NGO and as a freelance corporate social responsibility consultant. Tatiana is Canadian and currently based in Amsterdam.
As a skilled and enthusiastic designer and facilitator of learning processes, she works with participatory practices such as Circle, World Café, Open Space Technology, and Appreciative Inquiry. Her interest is in social technologies to enable transitions to new futures, drawing on Integral thinking, the U-process, Chaordic design and The Art of Hosting. She is certified as a FlowGame host, in cross-functional process improvement (CFPI and PDCA) and in CSR reporting assurance. Fusing process and content, Tatiana’s work includes hosting change agent communities in companies, designing programmes for collaborative leadership for social change, facilitating multi-stakeholder interventions and designing learning journeys on social-environmental issues.
Tatiana is currently collaborating with The Hub (www.the-hub.net) to support launching inspirational habitats in major world cities for social innovators to work, meet, learn, connect and realise progressive ideas - for a radically better world. With a community of co-entrepreneurs, Tatiana is establishing The Hub in Amsterdam, and is active in evolving new thinking - and practice - in innovative business and governance structures for pioneering people.