 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 U.S., Canada, Singapore, and Brazil. 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 Denise G. Easton, 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, Leadership and the New Science. 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 San Francisco. 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: vimeo.com/9339751) which is where I met Valdis Krebs, CEO, Orgnet.com (I-Open Interview: vimeo.com/6517978) and June Holley, (I-Open Interview: vimeo.com/5512933) 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: 609-577-1584 Email: brucewcollaboration@gmail.com Website: www.freethinc.com Now tweeting @Freethinc4aChng |
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