Dr. Glenda Eoyang
Glenda H. Eoyang is a leading practitioner and thinker in complexity science applied to organisations. She is the founder of Human Systems Dynamics (HSD), a practical field focused on helping people make sense of and act in uncertain, rapidly changing environments.
Her work centres on how patterns emerge in human systems and what leaders can actually do about it. She developed the CDE Model (Containers, Differences, Exchanges), a simple but robust framework for understanding and influencing how systems evolve over time.
Glenda has written extensively on working in complexity, including Coping with Chaos and Adaptive Action, both widely used by practitioners looking for grounded, usable approaches rather than theory for its own sake.
Across her career, she has worked with organisations, governments, and communities to help them respond more effectively to uncertainty - not by trying to control it, but by learning how to work with it