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See the below listing of consultants certified by the ISCB. Click on their names to read the full information about them. Contact them directly if you wish to consider using their services.
John Buck
John brought sociocracy to the English-speaking world beginning in 1990. He continues to enjoy encouraging the development of organic organizations that operate with a lively, multi-hearted sense of being. His international work especially includes India. He resides in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA with his wife, Ramona, an internationally certified mediator.
- John.Buck@governancealive.com
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- http://www.governancealive.com/
Sylvia Stifter
Sylvia Stifter, over two decades of practice in supervision, coaching, training, mediation, organizational consulting, and development. She has 10 years of experience as a college lecturer. Her enthusiasm for sociocracy was ignited in her daughter's sociocratically organized school. She successfully led the 2.5-year implementation project "Students in Sociocracy." Sylvia's sociocratic journey continues as she is convinced that resilient organizational structures with individual responsibility are needed in companies.
Sylvia Stifter, über zwei Jahrzehnte Praxis in Supervision, Coaching, Training, Mediation, Organisationsberatung & -entwicklung. 10jährige Erfahrung als Lektorin. Die Begeisterung für die Soziokratie entbrannte in der soziokratisch organisierten Schule ihrer Tochter. Erfolgreiche Leitung eines 2,5jährigen Implementierungsprojektes „Schüler*innen in die Soziokratie“. Sylvias soziokratische Reise geht weiter, da sie überzeugt ist, dass es resiliente Organisationsstrukturen mit Eigenverantwortung in Unternehmen braucht.
- office@sylviastifter.at
- Vienna, Austria
- http://www.sylviastifter.at
Christian Rüther
Pioneer of sociocracy, since 2007 involved, member of the first german sociocratic center and author of three books about sociocracy. Born in Germany, living in Vienna, sociocratic consultant first time certified by TSG 2018, nvc-trainer with interest in new work, self-organization, personal development and borussia dortmund.
- chrisruether@gmail.com
- Wien (Vienna), Austria
- http://www.soziokratie.org
Lisa Praeg
Passionate facilitator for collaboration. Lisa studied International management in DE, NL and CH. Bringing tools for collaboration into schools and creating participatory learning experiences for the youth is her passion. Appling the sociocratic principals also for inner decision making was mind and heart opening for her. --- Leidenschaftliche Prozessbegleiterin für Kollaboration. Lisa hat Internationales Management in DE, NL und CH studiert. Ihre Leidenschaft ist es, Tools für die Co-Kreation und Kollaboration in Schulen zu bringen und partizipative Lernerfahrungen für die Jugend zu schaffen. Die Anwendung der soziokratischen Prinzipien, auch für die innere Entscheidungsfindung, war für sie eine Öffnung des Geistes und des Herzens.
- Höchst, Austria
- http://www.kollaborationskultur.com
Ted Rau
Co-founder of Sociocracy For All and co-author of "Many Voices One Song". Ted cares about systems change for more equality and sustainability that also brings more human-friendly organizations and relationships. Ted is transgender, has 5 children, holds a PhD in linguistics and is a German/British citizen in the USA.
- ted@sociocracyforall.org
- Amherst MA, USA
- http://www.sociocracyforall.org
Suzanne Kaeser
Founder of Sociocracy Center Switzerland and co-founder of Association of German-speaking Sociocracy Centers. My expertise is to accompany entrepreneurs, NGO’s / NPO’s and pioneers during the transformation processes in their organisations or start-ups.
Barbara Strauch
Barbara Strauch, born 1956 in Linz, Austria, is co-founder of the Austrian Center of Sociocracy in 2013. On the basis of what she learned from SCN – Sociocratic Center Netherlands, she created an education-program for professional Sociocracy Experts. She is the author of the first German book about SOCIOCRACY, together with Annewiek Reijmer (SCN), 2018. ----- Barbara Strauch, geboren 1956 in Linz, Österreich, ist Mitgründerin des Soziokratie Zentrum Österreich, 2013. Auf Grundlage dessen, was sie von SCN – Sociocratisch Centrum Netherlands lernte, hat sie 2016 ein Ausbildungsprogramm für professionelle Soziokratie ExpertInnen entwickelt. Sie ist Autorin des Buches “SOZOKRATIE. Kreisstrukturen als Organisationsprinzip zur Stärkung der Mitverantwortung des Einzelnen“, zusammen mit Annewiek Reijmer (SCN), 2018.
Jeannine Brutschin
Jeannine is geographer with background in development cooperation as well as trained in systemic constellation work and nature dialogue. She is passionate about holistic approaches to learning and development. She co-founded the network collective Common Ground to accompany organizations with a methodically broad-based approach, for example combining Theory U and sociocracy.
- jeannine.brutschin@commonground.land
- Solothurn, Schweiz
Tatjana Tupy
With a background as regenerative gardener, political scientist, resident of a sociocratic ecovillage and co-founder of Soilful (transformative vegetable farms for organisations), Tatjana combines her longtime experience with natural and social systems. She supports companies, start-ups, NPOs/NGOs, co-housing projects and farms in organisational development with sociocracy and complementary methods |
Mit einem Background als regenerative Gärtnerin, Politikwissenschaftlerin, Bewohnerin eines soziokratisch organisierten Ökodorfs und Co-Founderin von Soilful (transformative Gemüsefarmen für Organisationen) fließt in Tatjanas Arbeitsweise ihre Erfahrung mit natürlichen und sozialen Systemen zusammen. Sie begleitet Unternehmen, Start-ups, NPOs/NGOs, Wohnprojekte und landwirtschaftliche Betriebe bei der Organisationsentwicklung mit Soziokratie und ergänzenden Methoden.
Michael Effertz
After a career as a manager in an energy company, Michael Effertz decided to help teams achieve greater job satisfaction and fulfillment with modern, collaborative working methods.
Today, he works as an organizational developer at viadee spark, helping organizations to create collaborative cultures and productive work structures. -- Michael Effertz hat sich nach seiner Laufbahn als Führungskraft in einem Energiekonzern dazu entschieden, Teams mit modernen, gemeinschaftlich geprägten Arbeitsweisen zu mehr Zufriedenheit und Erfüllung im Job zu verhelfen.
Heute ist er als Organisationsentwickler bei viadee spark wirksam und hilft Organisationen zur Bildung gemeinschaftlich geprägter Kulturen und produktiven Arbeitsstrukturen.
Νaya Tselepi
Naya is a co-founder of the Hellenic Sociocracy Center, Greece and works as facilitator, trainer and consultant of Sociocracy. She has introduced Sociocracy in Youth Councils and schools as well as in neighborhood and communities organisation. She also holds a PhD in Human Geography and works as a post-doc researcher. | Η Nάγια είναι συνιδρύτρια του Ελληνικού Κέντρου Σοσιοκρατίας και εργάζεται ως συντονίστρια, εκπαιδεύτρια και σύμβουλος Σοσιοκρατίας. Έχει εισαγάγει τη Σοσιοκρατία σε Συμβούλια Νέων και σχολεία, καθώς και στην οργάνωση γειτονιών και κοινοτήτων. Είναι επίσης Δρ. Ανθρωπογεωγραφία και εργάζεται ως μεταδιδακτορική ερευνήτρια.
- naya.tselepi@gmail.com
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- https://www.sociocracy.gr/
Gina Price
Co-founder of The Sociocracy Consulting Group, Gina brings beauty, harmony and wisdom when working with schools, communities and businesses. Weaving life experiences as a polar scientist, homeschooling mother and organisation consultant, her practise is well grounded, with a West Australian focus. She is and holds a PhD in atmospheric physics.
- gina.price@sociocracyconsulting.com
- Western Australia, Australia
- https://sociocracyconsulting.com/
Gyuri Bárány
Gyuri is a trainer and consultant as well as a musician and former teacher. Since 2022 also trainer in the education program of SoZe. As a father of two kids living in Pomali Cohousing Community he explores the intersection points between human relationships, community building, leadership and participation. -- Gyuri ist Trainer und Berater, sowie Musiker und ehemaliger Lehrer. Seit 2022 ist er auch Trainer im SoZe-Ausbildungsprogramm. Als Vater von zwei Kindern und Bewohner der Cohousing-Gemeinschaft Pomali, erkundet er die Schnittpunkte zwischen persönlichen Beziehungen, Gemeinschaftsbildung, Führung und Mitbestimmung.
- post@gyuribarany.at
- Wölbling, Austria
- http://www.gyuribarany.at
Anja Ritter
Anja Ritter from West-Austria is a heart-engaged sociocracy consultant, entrepreneur, businesscoach and trainer for leaders, trying to make the (corporate) world a little better. She accompanies and develops with her team different organizations (industry, craft-businesses, education, co-housing and more) by introducing SCM. Anja Ritter founded with others the Sociocracy Center Bodensee, a member of the Association of German-speaking Sociocracy Centers, this is in the triangle between Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
-- Anja Ritter aus West-Österreich ist mit Herzblut Soziokratie-Beraterin, Unternehmerin, Businesscoach und Trainerin für Führungskräfte, die versuchen, die (Unternehmens-)Welt ein bisschen besser zu machen. Sie begleitet und entwickelt mit ihrem Team verschiedene Organisationen (Industrie, Handwerksbetriebe, Bildung, Co-Housing und mehr) durch die Einführung von SCM. Anja Ritter gründete mit anderen das Soziokratie-Zentrum Bodensee, ein Mitglied des Verbands deutschsprachiger Soziokratie-Zentren, im Dreiländereck Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich.
- anja@anja-ritter.at
- Langenegg, Vorarlberg, Austria
- http://www.anja-ritter.at
Hyun Hee Ju
Hyunhee Ju is the CEO of Liink Consulting Co., Ltd. and Korea’s first Sociocratic certified consultant. She supervised the Korean translation of “We the People (written by John Buck and Sharon Villines)”. She is the first master facilitator in Korea. And she served as a member of board of directors of Korea Facilitators Association. —– 주현희는 링크컨설팅(주) 대표이사이자 한국 최초 소시오크라시 인증 컨설턴트이다. “소시오크라시(존 벅과 샤론 빌리네스 지음)”의 한국어 번역을 감수하였다. 한국 최초 마스터 퍼실리테이며 한국퍼실리테이터협회 이사를 역임 하였다.
- juhyunhee@gmail.com
- Seoul, Korea
- http://www.liink.co.kr/
Monika Megyesi
Co-founder of Governance Alive. Certified mediator, facilitator, trainer and sociocracy consultant. Monika co-creates relational spaces and self-optimizing systems that are truly alive and draw upon social technologies (Agile, Theory U, Imago, Somatic Education, Integral Learning). A world citizen, Monika speaks 5 languages and holds a M.S. in Conflict Management.
- monika.megyesi@governancealive.com
- Rockville, MD, USA
- http://www.governancealive.com
Agnes Goldenbeld
Agnes Goldenbeld has extensive experience in health and welfare and trains and advises professionals, managers and supervisors in the implementation of the SCM.
She received her training as a certified sociocratic organizational expert at the Sociocratic Center of the Netherlands (SCN). In 2023, she became a recertified CSE with the ISCB.
Agnes Goldenbeld heeft ruime ervaring in zorg en welzijn en traint en adviseert professionals, leidinggevenden en toezichthouders bij de invoering van de SKM.
Ze volgde haar opleiding tot gecertificeerd sociocratisch organisatiedeskundige bij het Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland (SCN). In 2023 werd ze gehercertificeerd CSE bij het ISCB.
- agnes@goldenbeldadvies.nl
- Epe, The Netherlands
- https://www.goldenbeldadvies.nl
Luise Ogrisek
Luise Ogrisek is a versatile, at the same time precise and humorous organisational developer and coach. She combines holistic, playful and systemic approaches. Particularly important to her is an individually situation-adapted combination of processes and methods, e.g. DragonDreaming and Sociocracy. She is an active member of the Sociocracy Centre Austria - Vienna/East Austria region.
Luise Ogrisek ist eine vielseitige, gleichzeitig genaue und humorvolle Organisationsentwicklerin und Coachin. In ihrer Arbeit verbindet sie ganzheitliche, spielerische und systemische Ansätze, besonders wichtig ist ihr eine individuell situationsangepasste Kombination von Prozessen und Methoden, zum Beispiel Dragon Dreaming und Soziokratie. Sie ist aktives Mitglied im Soziokratie Zentrum Österreich – Region Wien/Ost-Österreich.
- info@luiseogrisek.at
- Vienna, Austria
- https://www.luiseogrisek.at
Florian Bauernfeind
Co-founder of the Sociocracy Center Austria and en:tribe. He is an entrepreneur with decades of experience, also in the non-profit sector, and lives in a sociocratic co-housing project. Florian works as a moderator, trainer and consultant for sociocracy in English and German. He also offers expertise in organizational development, change processes, team development, self-organization and citizen participation. --- Mitgründer des Soziokratie Zentrum Österreich und en:tribe. Er ist Unternehmer mit jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung auch im Non-Profit-Bereich und lebt selbst in einem soziokratischen Cohousing-Projekt. Florian arbeitet als Moderator, Trainer und Berater für Soziokratie in englischer und deutscher Sprache. Expertise bietet er auch bei Organisationsentwicklung, Change Prozessen, Teamentwicklung, Selbstorganisation und Bürgerbeteiligung.
- florian.bauernfeind@soziokratiezentrum.at
- Vienna, Austria
Orli Wahrman
Orli specialises in applying Sociocracy to families. she’s a Couples and Family and Sex therapist and supervisor, MSW., Imago Relationship Worldwide (IRW)senior trainer, Co-chair of Imago Israel, Member of the Imago Faculty Dean Team. She’s the main force in implementing Sociocracy at IRW, and the facilitator of some main circles. Facilitator of the Imago Peace Project who’s responsible of creating the Communologue - Safe Communication in Groups, implementing it around the world, and combining it with Sociocracy. - - -
אורלי מומחית בסוציוקרטיה במשפחה. מטפלת ומדריכה זוגית, משפחתית ומינית. MSW, מכשירת מטפלים בכירה מטעם ארגון האימאגו הבינלאומי (IRW), יו״ר אימאגו ישראל. בשנים האחרונות לוקחת תפקיד מרכזי בהטמעת הסוציוקרטיה ב IRW, מלמדת ומובילה מעגלים מרכזים בארגון. אורלי היא גם מיוצרי הקומיונולוג - דיאלוג בטוח בקבוצה ובין קבוצות, שותפה בפרויקטים מקומיים ובינלאומיים, ובהוראת הקומיונולוג ברחבי העולם. בשנים האחרונות מלמדת סוציוקרטיה במשפחה, וכיצד לשלב את הקומיונולוג בסוציוקרטיה.
- imagorli@gmail.com
- Reut, Israel
- http://www.imagorli.co.il
Sebastián Zulueta
Certified Consultant in Sociocracy, Coordinator of the Circle of Happiness in Customs Agency P. Zulueta, President of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Deafness of Chile. I accompany companies, social organizations and schools to generate governance models of distributed power that promotes collective intelligence, effectiveness, transparency and equivalence. +++ Consultor certificado en Sociocracia, Coordinador Círculo de Felicidad Agencia de Aduana P. Zulueta, Presidente del Directorio del Instituto de la Sordera. Acompaño a empresas, organizaciones sociales y colegios a generar modelos de gobernanza de poder repartido que permiten potenciar la inteligencia colectiva, la efectividad, la transparencia y la equivalencia.
- sebazulueta@gmail.com
- Santiago, Chile
Christine Brandmeir
Christine is co-founder of the Sociocracy Center in Augsburg, southern Germany. She helps groups of all kinds solve problems and make creative, meaningful and strong decisions. She is employed in the management of a large organic farmers' association and there, together with a team of internal SCM trainers, she implements sociocracy step by step.
Christine ist Mitbegründerin des Soziokratie Zentrums in Augsburg, Süddeutschland. Sie hilft Gruppen aller Art, Probleme zu lösen und kreative, sinnvolle und kraftvolle Entscheidungen zu treffen. Sie ist in der Führungsebene eines großen Biobauernverbandes angestellt und setzt dort, zusammen mit einem Team interner SCM-Trainer, Schritt für Schritt die Soziokratie um.
- christine@brandmeir.net
- Diedorf/Bayern, Germany
Charlie P. Lenglez
Teacher and trainer, specializing in the integration of innovative and alternative learning strategies, Charlie was trained in Sociocracy with John Buck and Gilles Charest, and participated in its dissemination in Spain. He was a member of the GEN Europe Council for 3 years. He resides in Los Portales Community, Sevilla. --- Profesor y formador, especializado en la integración de estrategias de aprendizaje innovadoras y alternativas, Charlie se formó en Sociocracia con John Buck y Gilles Charest, y participó en su difusión en España. Fue miembro del Consejo de GEN Europe durante 3 años. Vive en la Comunidad de Los Portales, Sevilla.
- charlie.lenglez@yahoo.es
- Castilblanco de los Arroyos, Sevilla, Spain
- http://www.losportales.net
Janna Buchele
Janna Buchele has been an independent organizational developer, supervisor, coach and mediator for many years. She founded the Sociocracy Center in Leipzig and is active in local politics as well as in the area of orientation towards the common good. She advises small and medium-sized companies on all aspects of participatory and collegial leadership, with systemic attitude and sociocracy being the foundations on which she stands.
Janna Buchele ist seit vielen Jahren selbstständige Organisationsentwicklerin, Supervisorin, Coach und Mediatorin. Sie hat das Soziokratie Zentrum in Leipzig gegründet und ist sowohl in der Kommunalpolitik aktiv als auch im Bereich der Gemeinwohlorientierung. Sie berät kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen in allen Belangen der partizipativen und kollegialen Führung, dabei sind die systemische Haltung und die Soziokratie die Fundamente auf denen sie steht.
Andreas Jonsson
Andreas works as a sociocratic trainer and consultant in the Nordic countries. He has implementation and leadership experience in a wide variety of organizations. Schools, non-profit networks and associations, municipalities, private companies, eco-villages and co-ops, are all in his professional domain of training and consulting. Working member of SociocracyForAll.
- andreas.jonsson@sociocracyforall.org
- Villands Vånga, Sweden
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Jerry finds joy supporting effective, egalitarian organizing in service of human and planetary needs. He is a CNVC-certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication and an ISCB-certified consultant in sociocracy. Jerry co-founded Sociocracy For All in 2016 with his life and work partner Ted Rau, and lives in the Cherry Hill Cohousing community.
- jerry@sociocracyforall.org
- Amherst, MA (USA)
- http://www.sociocracyforall.org
Werner Kratochwil
Werner Kratochwil took part in the Global Challenge Foundation and has developed a new model for the UN using Sociocracy and Systemic Consensus. Under his leadership the first sociocracy & politics congress took place in November 2019 in Salzburg and a guideline for a nationwide citizens‘ assembly for climate justice in Austria was developed. --- Werner Kratochwil hat im Rahmen der Global Challenge Foundation ein neues Modell für die UNO mittels SKM und Systemisch Konsensieren entwickelt. Im November 2019 fand in Salzburg unter seiner Leitung der 1. Soziokratie & Politik - Kongress statt. Er hat einen Leitfaden für einen verbindlichen, bundesweiten Bürger*innenrat zur Klimagerechtigkeit in Österreich mitentwickelt.
- office@dersoziokrat.at
- Vienna, Austria
- http://www.soziokratiezentrum.org
Mats Willers
Mats has developed the sociocratic organization for IMAGO couple therapy nationally and internationally. He is focused on introducing sociocracy into politics and society. He has a special interest in introducing a European version of Children's parliament. Mats has consulting experiences in introducing system management models in private and government organisations. |
Mats har utvecklat den sociokratiska organisationen för IMAGO parterapi nationellt och internationellt. Han är fokuserad på att införa sociokratin inom politiken och samhället. Han har speciellt intresse för att införa en europeisk variant av Childrens parlament. Mats har tidigare konsulterfarenhet att införa systemförvaltningsmodeller både i privata och statliga organisationer.
- mats@hjartaboda.com
- Stockholm, Sweden
Brigitta Buomberger
A few years ago, Brigitta Buomberger implemented sociocracy in the organization she has been leading for 15 years. Through these radical experiences of quality improvement in cooperation, she consistently campaigns for a dignified togetherness in society. She advises and supports various organizations (associations, education, social and health organizations). She is leading the Sociocracy Center Switzerland since January 2022. +++
Brigitta Buomberger hat in der Organisation, die sie seit 15 Jahren leitet, vor einigen Jahren die Soziokratie implementiert. Durch diese einschneidenden Erfahrungen in der Qualitätsverbesserung in der Zusammenarbeit setzt sie sich konsequent für ein würdiges Miteinander in der Gesellschaft ein. Sie berät und begleitet unterschiedliche Organisationen (Vereine, Bildung, soziale Organisationen, Gesundheit).
Seit Januar 2022 leitet sie das Soziokratie Zentrum Schweiz.
- buomberger@soziokratie-art.ch
- Wolfhalden, Switzerland
- https://www.soziokratie-art.ch
Abbie Kempson
Abbie is a long-term worker co-operator and founder member of People Support Co-op. She works with co-ops and community businesses to provide practical governance and HR training and advice to place people, relationships and co-operation at the centre of their organisations. Abbie is a working member of Sociocracy for All.
Nathaniel Whitestone
Co-founder of the Ecovillage Network of the Americas in 1996, brought Sociocracy to the UK in 2007, co-founded the first cooperative sociocratic management consultancy in 2010, Healthy Power Alliance in 2014, A Fairer Society in 2016; co-authored the Sociocratic Neighbourhood Circles (SONEC) model 2020-22. Want to lead with healthy power? Let me help!
- nathaniel@afairersociety.com
- Hastings, United Kingdom
- https://afairersociety.com/
Verena Fink
Verena is a cultural educator, has an education in trauma therapy and works for more than 20 years as a freelancer especially with vulnerable groups.
She is a founding member of the Hellenic Sociocracy Center and can do Sociocratic facilitation and implementation in Greek, English and German. --- Η Βερένα είναι πολιτισμική εκπαιδεύτρια, είναι εκπαιδευμένη στη θεραπεία τραύματος και εργάζεται για περισσότερα από 20 χρόνια ως ελεύθερη επαγγελματίας, κυρίως με ευάλωτες ομάδες.
Είναι ιδρυτικό μέλος του Ελληνικού Κέντρου Σοσιοκρατίας και μπορεί να εκτελέσει Σοσιοκρατικό συντονισμό και εφαρμογή στα ελληνικά, αγγλικά και γερμανικά.
- verena.fink@posteo.org
- Thessaloniki, Greece
- https://www.verenafink.org
Nora Plaza
Nora enjoys accompanying organizations applying Sociocracy, NVC and other tools related to personal growth. She founded and is Operational Leader of SociocraciaPractica, the Spanish-speaking area of SociocracyForAll. She has translated several books on sociocracy into Spanish, created different training programs and is a professor and mentor at the Academia de Sociocracia. |
Nora disfruta acompañando organizaciones aplicando Sociocracia, CNV y otras herramientas relacionadas con el crecimiento personal. Fundó y es Coordinadora de SociocraciaPractica, el área hispanohablante de SociocracyForAll. Ha traducido varios libros sobre sociocracia al español, creado diferentes programas de formación y es profesora y mentora de la Academia de Sociocracia.
www.sociocracyforall.org, www.sociocraciapractica.org
- nora@sociocracyforall.org
- Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain
- http://www.sociocraciapractica.org
Doris Wilhelmer
Doris Wilhelmer PhD is a systemic innovation researcher, HR-expert, organizational developer and sociocracy consultant. She also integrates interventions from group dynamics and systemic structural constellation into the consultation. Doris trusts in the potential of people and systems and enjoys bringing “new” things into the world in cooperation with her customers. |
Mag. Dr. Doris Wilhelmer ist systemische Innovationsforscherin, HR-Expertin und Organisationsentwicklerin. Bedarfsbezogen integriert sie bei der Beratung auch Interventionen aus der Gruppendynamik und der systemischen Strukturaufstellung. Doris vertraut in die Potentiale von Menschen und Systemen und hat Freude daran, in Kooperation mit ihren Kund:innen “Neues” in die Welt zu bringen.
- doris@doris-wilhelmer.com
- Vienna, Austria