Career
He also chairs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology IDEAS program for cross-sector leadership capacity building in China and Indonesia. Otto introduced the concept of “presencing” —learning from the emerging future — in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P Senge et al). In 2015 he co-founded the MITx u.lab, a massive open online course (MOOC) that uses a blended o2o (online-to-offline) learning platform to enable transformational leadership learning for tens of thousands of participants in hundreds of countries.
Otto earned his diploma (with distinction) and Doctor of Philosophy (summa cum laude) from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.
More information: www.ottoscharmer.com and www.presencing.com.