About: Josephine Sassen-van Meer is currently the Scientific Lead for the System Innovation program at TNO in the Netherlands. With a background in Cognitive Psychology, and expertise in mental resilience, she has devoted her scientific career to systems thinking and transdisciplinary collaboration. Specifically, she aims her efforts at building bridges between the theory and practice of systemic approaches to our grand societal challenges. Together with her team, she is developing a methodology ‘Unlock System Transitions’; a clever mix of systemic approaches to unlock deep understanding of complex matters, while at the same time developing the competencies for transdisciplinary collaboration. Currently, the Unlock methodology is being used by ministries, municipalities, knowledge institutes, and universities while her team is still developing it further.

Josephine’s motivation in her work is to contribute to transitions that lead to an increasingly healthy, fair and more compassionate society. Her contribution lies in the domain of optimizing our collective human thinking capacity, as a precondition for making transitions possible.

Register for Josephine Sassen-van Meer’s session on March 27, 2025 from 10AM to 11AM ET.