Background
Endenburg was born in Rotterdam in 1933.
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Gerard Endenburg
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He was a Quaker, and attended a Quaker boarding school, where he was influenced by Kees Boeke and his wife Betty Cadbury, and the ideas of sociocracy.
Career
This model is inspired by the idea of sociocracy of Kees Boeke. He became general manager of his family"s engineering company, Endenburg Elektrotechniek BV, in the mid-1960s, and in the 1970s started pioneering and applying the sociocratic method of organizing within the company. In 1978, Endenburg founded the Sociocratic Center Netherlands to develop and implement the sociocratic approach in other organizations, serving as its director
In 1992, Endenburg obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Twente, based on his dissertation "Sociocratie als Sociaal Ontwerp" (later translated and published in English as "Sociocracy as Social Design").
Endenburg also was an honorary professor in Organizational Learning at Maastricht University.
