Great time on a rainy November day at the Copenhagen Business School’s NOCA headquarters delivering a webinar for hundreds of leading European corporate HR practitioners about organizational self-management and the future of work. Thanks to moderator Marie Louise Gaardbo Nielsen and Cecilie Zielke-Jacobsen for the great experience, and for an opportunity to share time with…

Happy to join my fabulous translator Louise Passer Jensen and her friends in the Copenhagen self-management community for a lovely dinner to celebrate the launch of the Danish translation of Beyond Empowerment from Content Publishing!

Here’s a link to my article The Elegant Power of Networked Organizations: A Revolution Beyond Hierarchy, published by the Peter Drucker Forum on November 1, 2025.

Thrilled to be in beautiful Rimini, Italy for the VAR Group’s 2025 Z!ng Conference. Three thousand-plus leaders fired up to enter the zone of innovation and growth (Z!ng!) powered by humility, collective intelligence, distributed leadership and courage. Vision articulated by their dynamic leader and author of BRAVESHIP, Francesca Moriani. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/captaining-bravest-ship-doug-kirkpatrick-ftmpc

Honored to be chosen as the first guest to kick off the Self-Management USA podcast on LinkedIn Live with Kat Higgins and Dom Di Chiara! Thanks and good luck for the rest of the journey. https://www.linkedin.com/events/self-managementusakickoffmeetup7379915058870620161

Always a pleasure to join my friend and colleague Pernille Brun on a Session podcast interview, this time joined by Thea Tolstrup Bramming of Clever, a leading European electric mobility and sustainable transportation company based on co-leadership and innovative organization design.

Engaging Management Summit in Lisbon, Portugal on September 22-23, 2025. Over 20 leaders signing the Lisbon Principles supporting customer value, autonomous networks and adaptive mindsets. Substantive and intense small group conversations. Palpable energy. Thanks to Agile Thinkers and their sponsors for another impactful conference. https://www.managementsummit.org/lisbon-value-creating-principles https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=management+summit+lisbon+2025

Great time sharing experiences with seasoned OD professionals from around the country at Pepperdine’s 50th anniversary alumni retreat at the beautiful Tamaya resort in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico! Talked about Peter Koestenbaum, leadership, self-management and life. Great to make new friends as well. https://bschool.pepperdine.edu/masters-degree/organization-development

Fun and substantive conversation with colleague and moderator Andrea Robb and Amy’s Kitchen supply chain leader Tim Griffin at Responsive Conference 2025, talking about our shared Koestenbaum Leadership Experience. Thanks to Robin Zander and team for a superb event.

Happy to connect with Astrid Wilmotte at France’s 3A L’Ecole Internationale du Management Responsable as her students study self-managed organizations, starting with Morning Star!

Acton University held its annual conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 24-26, 2025 with the theme of Connecting Good Intentions with Sound Economics. Jim Babka shared a presentation called Instead of Unions: Empowering Workers Through Self-Management and recommended reading The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work, available in the Acton…

Enjoyed engaging on this webinar in support of Management Summit 2025 in Lisbon with value creation expert Hunter Hastings, Drucker Forum President Richard Straub and thought leader Steve Denning, all orchestrated by tech whiz Joey Spooner of Agile Thinkers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyoCUsn3y0 http://managementsummit.org