The Co-creative Meeting ― Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations

“Co-creative meetings” foster invention and innovation, and therefore enable innovative developmental processes in an organizational and inter-organizational context, including strategy development, product development, human resource development, R&D, and trans-organizational projects. This book illustrates the difference between productive and innovative organizations and what that difference means for meetings taking place in such organizations, both from a conceptual and practical point of view. It provides managers, coaches, consultants and other professionals whose job it is to organize meetings with clear and action-oriented guidelines for the design of “co-creative meetings”, and also shows how to incorporate them through experiential learning.

Christoph Mandl, PhD in mathematics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; senior lecture at Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna; partner in metalogikon; founding member of Society for Organizational Learning Austria; council member of the Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning Communities.Markus Hauser, M.A. Organizational and Healthy psychologist; psychotherapist (logotherapy and existential analysis); consultant for organization development and leadership development. Hanna Mandl, Coach at Mandl, Luthi & Partner; partner in metalogikon, council member of The Society for Organizational Learning Austria; violin teacher.