Founder, Three Point Vision

Miriam Karell is founder of Three Point Vision, a consulting firm that inspires business leaders to integrate creativity, community and consciousness into their daily practices. She assists organizations in setting up green teams, developing sustainability programs (assessments, trainings and strategic planning), and getting green certified by the Bay Area Green Business Program. She is former sustainability champion at a medium-sized consulting firm and has a Masters in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability from Blenkinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Individuals and organizations from all sectors of society are looking for tools and perspectives on how to become more sustainable. Many well-intentioned sustainability initiatives lack the systemic perspective to avoid undesirable side effects and intentionally create the synergy necessary for lasting positive change. This presentation will introduce systems thinking as a way of seeing the “big moving picture” that involves both analytical and creative thinking to understand and design actions as part of a global ecology of solutions. Systems thinking is a leadership competency for bridging the gap between the current realities in organizations and communities and the vision of sustainable world.