Systems Thinking Using Project- and Problem-Based Learning

Project and Problem-based Learning transcends traditional problem-solving by uniting diverse minds to forge solutions bursting with creativity and deeper insights. It's about harnessing neuroscience and collective intelligence that breaks free from the shackles of conventional learning and wisdom, elevating our approach to challenges beyond normal parameters. It has far-reaching implications for the Health and Education sectors and is implicit in our capacity to create a just and equitable society. It is being recognised as a Teutonic shift away from convention and will help prepare us to be ready for future advancements in technology, learning and meaningful collaboration.

Why Transform Leadership?

Our society's linear mindset has dimmed our inherent and genetic capacity for creativity and innovation. The conventional frameworks within our educational system and societal expectations have suppressed our natural innate propensity for ingenuity, curtailing the spectrum for true potential. It has limited our natural inventiveness, reducing the potential for self-actualization and the possibility for true breakthrough innovations. This limitation impacts our country's ability to compete in the world - since few can break free from conditioning. As our situation continues with each generation, our children get frustrated that their natural tendencies to be creative are effectively squashed by educational systems that endeavour to mould similar conformist outcomes. One size fits all.

Our approach is about Igniting Minds and Expanding Horizons

We reignite the spark of creative and critical thinking through a holistic strategy that widens our cognitive realms (utilizing the power of whole-brain thinking). By adopting systems thinking and the principles of complex adaptive systems, we enhance our understanding of the challenges at a deeper level, enabling solutions that were previously unimaginable (or unseen). Project-based enquiry favours a systems thinking approach - the learning is then continuous.

What is the Foundation for this approach?

This method is a guided step-by-step journey of enlightened self-discovery, encouraging individuals to perceive problems through multifaceted viewpoints. At its heart is Awakened Leadership, which embraces complexity – that unifies strategies and acute insights, in a highly interconnected world.

The Purpose

Our innovative approach is designed to address the intricate problems facing science, business, government, and various organizations—spanning the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. It elevates problem-based learning to new heights, impacting education, health, and overall well-being. Supporting an Entrepreneurial opportunistic and collaborative mindset.

The Call for Evolving Leadership

To make this vision a reality, a transformation in leadership is imperative. Leaders must evolve to foster a culture of high-level collaboration, uniting everyone under a shared vision and heightened and compassionate consciousness, created using psychological safety This is the empathic path to unlocking our full potential and collectively taking on the complex challenges of our time.

What do Business and Innovation Leaders say?

"The Innovation Matrix process helped enormously with our Ambitious Business Challenges & launch of Shell Global Solutions, the process is genius & provokes new solutions, previously unseen," Dr Allan Samuel. Shell." Chief Science Officer.

John ran the Entrepreneurship MBA course. His Innovation (Matrix) for Competitive Advantage course was mandatory for All of our MBA students, John gave an excellent presentation at the GEM Summit." Jonathan Michie, Former Director for the University of Birmingham Business School. Currently, Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange at the University of Oxford.

"The process is a game-changer in the context of an adaptive world that is anything but knowable." Dr John Potter, Course Director, Sandhurst Royal Military Academy."

"Our involvement with this highly imaginative company has proved a great success." Henry Gilbert, MD, INA Bearings. South Wales."

We penetrated many new global markets thanks to their Innovation Matrix." Nigel Ball, MD. Adroit Technologies,. Open Automation Software - Nuclear Power.

"They quickly understood the systemic nature of our business using this process." Ken Bailey, Operations Director, ABB.

"Our teams have made powerful decisions using whole brain thinking (systems thinking) & the Darwin Matrix process." Tim Nichol, Pro-vice Chancellor. Liverpool John Moores University

"Their marketing insights meant a significant turnover increase using the Innovation Matrix." Justin Beckett, M.D. Belton Farm.

"The only people I wouldn't recommend John to are our competitors." David Jarvis, Procase Technology Start-up becomes market leader after 12 months.

"Johns's systemic thinking can be combined with critical analysis to disembed us from the constructs of normal instruction of cognition and learning - this leads to scientific and evolutionary breakthroughs. A compelling narrative of the future." Christopher Thorpe. Research Scientist and Science Editor.

Global Initiatives

I have been fortunate to judge the final Entrepreneurs' presentations from over 90 countries through learnwithleaders.com where I have the honour of being Chief Imagination Officer. Learn with Leaders are doing a brilliant job of bringing the Entrepreneurial Spirit into over 20,000 schools worldwide. It's making a massive difference to invention and Innovation for their respective countries.

I am also privileged to work with hherf.org where I am the Chief Innovation Officer. We believe that everyone from whatever background and circumstance have the right to Health and Education. It is the only sustainable way we can reduce poverty and increase the prospect for happiness across cultures.

I have worked with hundreds of start-ups and a few Corporations including top Universities and believe that if we can adopt Entrepreneurial Insights based on Systems Thinking and Awakened Leadership we can transform not just businesses but whole economies and communities.

We are developing with Innovative Teachers a project-based learning entity moonshotechs.com that will span the globe, and help to create smarter more capable students who are financially and tech literate. Teachers who embrace complexity through sustainable projects (PBL) will be more responsive and responsible for a shared view with children, the next generation, with their eyes wide open - of the Earth's fragile existence. We are active in the Middle East, India, the US, Latin America, Africa and Europe.

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