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Bruce Waltuck

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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).

Contributions to I-Open:
  • TRANSFORMING COLLABORATION FOR COMMUNITY GROWTH AT YES, AND. . .PHILLY
  • 4 SENSE MAKING SKILLS YOU NEED TO NAVIGATE DISRUPTIVE EXPERIENCES
  • THE GLADWELL APPROACH: ONE STORY DOES NOT A THEORY MAKE
  • BRUCE WALTUCK: SUSTAINED GOVERNMENT PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
  • A JOURNEY THROUGH UNCERTAINTY, TO BETTER OUTCOMES
  • CONVECTION
  • IMPROVISATIONAL CREATIVITY AND HAPPY ACCIDENTS
  • THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM
  • RIPPLES
  • Q & A: THE WISDOM OF PETER BLOCK
Professional Experience:
  • Freethinc...For A Change
    President, 2009 - present
  • The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
    Senior Advisor for Process improvement, 2008 - 2009
  • Delaware River Port Authority
    Administrator, Training and Development, 2002 - 2008

  • U.S. Department of Labor
    National Coordinator, Employee Involvement and Organizational Improvement, 1989 - 1994
  • U.S. Department of Labor
    Compliance Specialist, 1976 - 2002
  • U.S. Department of Labor
    Labor-Management Relations Specialiast, 1981 - 1994

"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.  

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."  

Bruce Waltuck is based in the Washington, D.C. area
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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