Knowledge Hub

The knowledge hub is an archive of C4FE session resources posted after the event. Generously shared by C4FE speakers and presenting organisations.

February 2024 update: The knowledge hub is currently being developed to include a searchable archive of approximately 100 previous meetings held by the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group hosted by the Strategic Innovation Lab (sLab) at OCAD University.

RSD14: Flourishing Economics, Micro-Macro

RSD14: Flourishing Economics, Micro-Macro

Join FEI for our second year at Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD14), joining the global conversation on systems change with our lens of flourishing. This year, we’re proud to share the stage with a group of leading thinkers and practitioners whose work explores how organizations, economies, and communities can thrive in the face of complexity and crisis.

Breakthrough Transformation: Appealing to Municipal Sector Leaders and Enabling Deeper Change

Breakthrough Transformation: Appealing to Municipal Sector Leaders and Enabling Deeper Change

The Public Service Transformation Academy is hosting a free special webinar: Breakthrough Transformation: Appealing to Municipal Sector Leaders and Enabling Deeper Change with FEI’s Randy Sa’d.

The pace of change has never been faster—and today’s complexity is stretching traditional leadership and management practices to their limit. On Oct 8th, Randy Sa’d, Executive Director of the Flourishing Enterprise Institute at Wilfrid Laurier University, will share about the Enterprise Evolution (EE) Program.

Flourishing Startups: A New Generation of Systems-Informed Businesses

Flourishing Startups: A New Generation of Systems-Informed Businesses

This October’s C4FE Ondine Hogeboom will speak about the Flourishing Startup Method (FSM); an approach that blends Lean Startup principles with sustainability-as-flourishing. She will talk about how entrepreneurs can design ventures that align with personal values, embrace systems thinking, and contribute to long-term human and ecological well-being. Join us as we unpack the opportunities and challenges of building future-fit, regenerative business models from the very start.

Shaping the future of Context-Based Sustainability

Shaping the future of Context-Based Sustainability

This co-creative session explored needs and opportunities in both research and practice in the sustainability performance management (measurement and reporting) space. Participants explored ideas, interests and areas of inquiry to help build a research agenda and set of shared objectives focused on further developing and mobilizing Context-Based Sustainability (CBS).

Shaping the future of Context-Based Sustainability

Systemic Management Innovation

The Flourishing Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce the release of a new preprint paper examining the need for local governments to adapt in response to the complex challenges emerging. Co-authored by FEI's Randy Sa'd and Tim Posselt in collaboration with...

The Evolution of Regenerative Design –  And its Impact on Organizations

The Evolution of Regenerative Design – And its Impact on Organizations

For September’s C4FE session we are honored to host Daniel Christian Wahl, who may already be well-known to many of you contributing to the regeneration movement, and in systemic design. Daniel’s book Designing Regenerative Cultures is widely known and translated, and he has a wide array of engagements online. For the C4FE, Daniel will join us for an open-ended dialogue, with a moderated conversation with Peter Jones, and opening to the audience. We will discuss the movement of regeneration and the role of organizations in cultural change.