Please join Jasper Kenter and Kate Pickett for an Intellectual Shamans Webinar on Ten Principles for Transforming Economics
October 10, 2025 12:00 noon EDT
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/IS-JasperKenter-KatePickett
Please join us for an exciting Intellectual Shamans webinar on transforming economics to achieve a flourishing world for all! The International Humanistic Management Association presents Jasper Kenter, professorial research fellow at Aberystwyth Business School, Wales, and honorary fellow of the University of York, UK, and Kate Pickett, professor of epidemiology at University of York, UK, hosted by Sandra Waddock, Boston College Carroll School of Management, for an Intellectual Shamans Webinar on Principles for Transforming Economics, recently published in Nature Sustainability.
Jasper and Kate will discuss why transformation of economic systems is crucial for addressing global crises. Unconventional approaches with holistic human and planetary well-being have transformative potential, but mainstreaming them faces vested interests and intellectual lock-ins. To challenge these, there is a need to build "discourse coalitions" creating new narratives centered around persuasive common narratives. This session will present a structured qualitative analysis of 237 document sources from science and practice by the Global Assessment for a New Economics (GANE) project, which identified analysis ten principles common across 38 economic approaches that provide a basis for such new narratives. We will discuss the ten principles and implications for research, policy, and business practice.
Biography
Jasper Kenter is professorial research fellow in deliberative ecological economics at Aberystwyth Business School and honorary fellow of the University of York. He leads GANE (Global Assessment for a New Economics), and his broader work has focused on developing novel frameworks and methods for assessing the values of nature, and underpins the value typologies that have been globally adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Prof. Kenter has also worked extensively with local and indigenous communities on diverse issues of community resilience, sustainability and justice. His recent work has focused on the relational turn in the sustainability sciences, and developing a relational foundation for the economics of nature and biodiversity.
Kate Pickett, OBE FRSA FFPH FAcSS, is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, where she leads the Public Health & Society Research Group, the York Cost of Living Research Group and the Born in Bradford Centre for Social Change. She is also academic co-director of Health Equity North. She was a UK NIHR Career Scientist from 2007-2012 and is a Fellow of the RSA, the UK Faculty of Public Health and the British Academy of Social Sciences. A social epidemiologist, Kate's research and writing focus on the wider determinants of health and inequalities in wellbeing. Kate is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the bestselling and award winning The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). Described by Penguin as 'the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade', The Spirit Level won the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Book Prize and was the 2012 Publication of the Year of the Political Studies Association. The New Statesman listed it in the Top Ten Books of the Decade, and the Guardian listed it among the 100 most influential books of the century.
Sandra Waddock is Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. She is author of more than 200 papers and chapters and 16 books, the latest of which is Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen (Business Expert Press, 2024), and the earlier Intellectual Shamans: Management Academics Making a Difference (Cambridge, 2014) on which this series is based.
https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/sandra-waddock-homepage/
Please register for the Intellectual Shamans webinar here.
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Sandra Waddock
Galligan Chair of Strategy
Boston College
Carroll School of Management]
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
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