--- title: The Latest | Steve Waddell description: "Responding to the 21st century’s enormous global challenges and realizing its unsurpassed opportunities require new ways of acting and organizing. For the past 30 years Steve has been supporting this with organizational, network, and societal change and development. He does this through consultations, education, research, and personal leadership. For the last 10 years he’s focused largely on multi-stakeholder global change networks (Global Action Networks) and complex change. Steve has dozens of publications. Other books are Societal Learning and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies (2005); and Global Action Networks: Creating our future together (2011). He is lead editor of a June 2015 special issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship on the topic of Large Systems Change. He has a Ph.D. in sociology and an MBA, and is a Canadian-American living in Boston." --- [![20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Administration/Tamarack%20Logos/20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png?width=200&height=47&name=20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png "20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange")](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us) # The Latest Contribute. We love to hear your thoughts, your musings and your latest work. Please share with us! [![Write a post](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1) #### Subscribe. Be in the know. Get the latest updates about community change and building vibrant communities. 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For the past 30 years Steve has been supporting this with organizational, network, and societal change and development. He does this through consultations, education, research, and personal leadership. For the last 10 years he’s focused largely on multi-stakeholder global change networks (Global Action Networks) and complex change. Steve has dozens of publications. Other books are Societal Learning and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies (2005); and Global Action Networks: Creating our future together (2011). He is lead editor of a June 2015 special issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship on the topic of Large Systems Change. He has a Ph.D. in sociology and an MBA, and is a Canadian-American living in Boston. ### Recent Posts [![](http://contact-form-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/316071/884f458d-7fd5-41f0-b650-b21bdb75bb04/20130611-Steve.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/change-for-the-audacious-webinar-a-follow-up?hsLang=en-us) ### [Change for the Audacious Webinar: A Follow Up](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/change-for-the-audacious-webinar-a-follow-up?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Steve Waddell](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/steve-waddell) on November 15, 2016 After our webinar [Change for the Audacious: A Conversation with Steve Wadell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACiWwxrAbwk) on Large Systems Change (LSC), one of the participants, Ian, asked me about connections between it and integral theory and Theory U. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/change-for-the-audacious-webinar-a-follow-up?hsLang=en-us) [![](http://networkingaction.net/wp-content/uploads/book.png) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/change-for-the-audacious-a-doers-guide?hsLang=en-us) ### [Change for the Audacious: A Doer’s Guide](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/change-for-the-audacious-a-doers-guide?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Steve Waddell](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/steve-waddell) on October 12, 2016 Responding to the 21st century’s enormous global challenges such as: climate change; food sustainability; health; education; environmental degradation; and, wealth creation while also realizing its unsurpassed opportunities requires new ways of acting and organizing. My new book, *Change for the Audacious: A Doer’s Guide*, is for people working on these types of issues but anchored in the perspective that we can create a future that is not just “sustainable”, but also flourishing. Our collective challenge is to see this work as not just one of incremental change, but also as one of transformation – radical change in the way we perceive our world, create relationships and organize our societies. 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