Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D

Elisabet Sahtouris' Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolutionary biologist, futurist, author, speaker and consultant to organizations on Living Systems Design. Her unique "Living Systems Design," approach, applies the principles of biology and evolution to organizational development so that organizations may become more functional, healthy "living systems," with increased resilience, stability, and cooperation. Dr. Sahtouris is one of a select group of scientists rethinking the classic, mechanistic view of the universe. Her particular goal is to create sustainable health and well-being for humanity within the larger living systems of Earth. Showing the relevance of evolving biological systems to organizational design, Elisabet Sahtouris travels worldwide giving speeches, workshops and making television and radio appearances.

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris’ books include, Biology Revisioned: A Walk Through Time, From Stardust to U, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution.

Elisabet Sahtouris uses nature's principles and practice, revealed in biological evolution, as useful models for organizational change. Dr. Sahtouris applies them in the corporate world, in global politics and economics, in our efforts to create sustainable health and well being for humanity within the larger living systems of Earth.

More About Elisabet Sahtouris . . .
Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, taught at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T., and was a science writer for the HORIZON/NOVA TV series.

• Why biology is good for business.
• How organic models can meet corporate needs.
• How quality of life and profits can improve together.
• Business lessons in repeating cycles of evolution.
• Self-organization principles in living systems.
• Essential features of healthy living systems.
• How management changes under organic principles.
• What healthy globalization would look like.
• What does it mean to be part of a live planet?
• Making biological sense of a world in evolution.
• Humanity as a living system in rapid evolution.
• The Internet: self-organizing system and key to human evolution.

“Very exciting... Sahtouris is a quantum leap beyond Darwin.” 

­David Zink, Director, Institute for Planetary Studies, Pasadena, California

“Albert Einstein said that we need a new way of thinking if humanity is to survive. Sahtouris points the way to the kind of thinking that is required.”

­Stephan L. Chorover, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Sahtouris lays the baseline upon which much of our 21st century thinking will be constructed.” 

­Janis Roze, Professor, CUNY

"There is a great need for scientists and visionary prophets like Elisabet Sahtouris... her work is vital for the future of humanity and this planet." 

­Robert Muller, Chancellor, University for Peace,
former Asst. Sec'y Gen'l United Nations

"I had so many people tell me how much they loved your presentation at the WorldBlu Forum on Democracy in Business and how much it opened up their thought."

--Traci Fenton, Founder and CEO of WorldBlu