We've started a series of events through RnDAO to facilitate knowledge exchange on practices for humane collaboration and new visions for DAO operations. On this first event, we've hosted Doug Kirkpatrick, organisational change consultant and author of The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management in the New World of Work. Doug will discuss the usage of 'Memorandums of Understanding' to scale a self-managed organisation.

Spencer is a core contributor at DAOhaus, where he helps with product development, internal operations, communications, and tokenomics. He is also a member of Raid Guild, and contributes to a number of web3 projects including clr.fund, CommitPool, and saveDAI. He has worked full-time for DAOs since 2020.In this talk, Graham will share a new framework for understanding capture-resistant governance, web3 communities, and DAOs.

Edwin Jansen is Head of Strategy for Raise / Ian Martin Group, the largest self-managed recruitment company in the world. Together with his colleague, Edwin started developing and spreading Teal practices at Raise 7 years ago; and in this talk, will share the lessons from that journey transforming a family company into a 450 people strong self-managed organisation.

Amy Jung is a web3 veteran. She's an investor at Komorebi Collective (first investment DAO focused on funding female and nonbinary crypto founders), and has previously been Head of Community Development and Program Operations & Strategy Lead at MakerDAO, and design operations lead at ConsenSys Design.In this session, Amy  shared her work on progressive decentralisation and lessons learned from MakerDAO.

Brian Robertson is an entrepreneur, organizational pioneer, and author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. He is most well-known for his work developing Holacracy, a self-management practise for running purpose-driven, responsive companies.In this session Brian talked about:1. ​What are the strengths and limits of each framework (DAOs and Holacracy)?​2. How do we integrate the two to balance those strengths and weaknesses?3. ​How do we harvest human wisdom in a small group governance process while also harvesting the wisdom of the crowd in a DAO-like structure?

Humanity is facing an existential crisis. To survive, we must understand how our societies work and where we come from.”​Tamás Dávid-Barrett is a behavioural scientist, who asks what traits allow humans to live in large and culturally complex societies. His work focuses on how the structure of social networks change during falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. He teaches at Trinity College, University of Oxford, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland.During this talk, Tamás shared his work studying cooperation in social networks, matriocracy, regulating inequality, and more.

Ted Rau leads Sociocracy for All - a non-profit dedicated to enabling sociocracy as a sustainable form of governance. And he's the author of two books (Many Voices One Song. Shared power with sociocracy and Who decides who decides? How to start a group so everyone can have a voice). In this session, we'll discuss the application of Sociocracy in DAOs. Join us with your questions and comments as we explore the past, present and future of governance and organisation design. You can join the conversation at https://www.rndao.info/

​As DAOs mature, questions around financial transparency, accounting and budgeting are piling up. How should these concerns be addressed?Bjarte Bogsnes is the Chairman of Beyond Budgeting Roundtable (BBRT), author of "Implementing Beyond Budgeting - Unlocking the Performance Potential", an international business speaker and is the winner of a Harvard Business Review/McKinsey Management Innovation award.He's been heading up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company. Equinor realized that traditional leadership and management practices no longer work in organisations operating in business environments that are more complex, dynamic and unpredictable than ever. The company implemented innovative alternatives to traditional management, like abolishing traditional budgets and calendar-based management in favour of more decentralized, agile and human processes.

Nintynick is a DAO mechanism designer & governance facilitator. Contributor to Hats Protocol, Raid Guild, EvenGov, and groundw3rk. Formerly a developer of neurosymbolic AI algorithms. Nintynick shares his work mapping the intersection of AI and DAOs to evolve and augment human coordination. Recorded Fri, Jul 8, 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PDT

Systems Thinking offers us a wealth of insights to design better DAOs. For this session, we have invited two experts in Cybernetics to share their learnings.Angela EspinosaAngela has three decades of experience in Cybernetics in the Centre of Systems Studies, Hull University. She's now an Emeritus Fellow at the Centre for Systems Studies, a Fellow in the British Cybernetics Society, and an invited professor in several universities in Latin-America and the UK. She's also devoted to the Metaphorum, an NGO aiming to continue developing Stafford Beer's legacy.Jon WalkerJon has worked for over 35 years in the co-operative business sector. He has established and co-managed a range of businesses including retail outlets, a manufacturing plant, and a chain of supermarkets. He pioneered the use of the Viable Systems Model, in both large cooperatives and an eco-community, co-authored the book "A Complexity Approach to Sustainability" with Angela, and consulted and run workshops for 4 Universities (in Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Oman, Romania and for the Government of Victoria, Australia) on the use of The Viable System Model.

​Every four seconds, another person enters a human trafficking situation somewhere in the world. It is estimated that there are over 40 million people in modern-day slavery today – more than any other time in history.​In the effort to design organisations to empower individuals and "liberate them" it feels important to understand the big issue of slavery in corporations as it will probably give us interesting insights and considerations for DAO design.​To make sense of this important issue and its relevance to today’s organizations, Matt Friedman will offer a comprehensive update on this topic. His talk will explore the following:​- The changing human trafficking paradigm;​- The relationship between human trafficking and modern slavery;​- A comprehensive summary of global trends and patterns;​- An update on emerging legislation;​- A description of the relationship between modern slavery and ESG.​- A detailed description of the relationship between human trafficking and business risk; and​- A description of tangible, practical tools and approaches used by corporations throughout the world to help identify and address this potential problem.​Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 30 years’ experience. He is CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization of Hong Kong’s leading businesses which have joined forces to help end all forms of modern slavery. Mr. Friedman previously worked for USAID and the United Nations in over 30 countries. Mr. Friedman offers technical advice to numerous governments, banks and corporations working to eliminate all forms of modern slavery and is the author of twelve books. In 2017, Mr. Friedman won Asia’s prestigious “Communicator of the Year” Gold Award.​The Mekong Club is one of the first not-for-profit organizations of its kind in Asia to use a ‘business-to-business’ approach to fight slavery. Bridging the gap between the public and private sectors, the Mekong Club helps companies of all sizes to understand the complexities of human trafficking and to reduce their vulnerability within their supply chains/business environment. Together with business partners, the Mekong Club is spearheading innovative and strategic projects to achieve a slave-free world.​Matt's new Penguin book, WHERE WERE YOU?: A PROFILE OF MODERN SLAVERY, has been published and is available worldwide. In this memoir, he explores the early days of meeting modern slavery survivors and recounts true stories of enslavement in Asia. He recalls painful moments that literally changed his life, reflect back on the different approaches to fighting human trafficking over the last 35 years and give an account of the early beginnings of the fight against modern slavery before the phrase “human trafficking” was adopted. As he reflects on the deeply personal lessons learned, his first and foremost goal for this book is to motivate more people to join him in helping to fight this global crime.

​Bartek Starodaj is currently the Director of Housing for the City of Kingston, New York. In this role, he manages housing-related grants, supports the construction of new market-rate and affordable housing, and develops policies to provide stability and protections for that need it most. Bartek is also a founding board member of the Kingston City Land Bank. He has served as the Board Secretary for three years helping to ensure that the organization’s activities live up to its mission to expand housing accessibility for Kingston’s citizens and that its programs reach households that are currently underrepresented among the city’s homeowners.​Prior to joining the City of Kingston, Bartek was the lead account manager for two marketing agencies. He also served on the German Marshall Fund’s Urban and Regional Policy team fostering transatlantic development initiatives for major U.S. and European cities.

Jamie Joyce is the executive director and founder of The Society Library and has been focused on modeling societal-scale deliberation, developing decision-making models, building libraries of knowledge, and offering educational content on complex issues.​In this talk, Jamie went through the methodologies used by The Society Library to collect the arguments, claims, and evidence from across all media types, and how they bring all of this knowledge together and structure it so that everyone can get both a birds-eye view over a particular issue, and also be able to dive down as deep as they want, to find out all of the argumentation that refutes or supports a particular claim.

​Continuing with our knowledge exchange sessions between the world of self-management and web3, we're happy to host Francesca Pick!Francesca’s work is dedicated to creating organizing structures and cultures that contribute to a more healthy system for all. As founding partner of Greaterthan, Edmund Hillary Fellow and co-lead at Cobudget, she guides, facilitate, and trains organizations and teams on the topics of participatory governance, network building, self-organizing, collaborative decision-making and budgeting.In this short talk, Francesca will share common myths and misconceptions about what leadership is and is not in the context of self-management and decentralized governance. She'll share useful concepts, practices and perspectives that help groups truly step into shared leadership.

Deep Democracy is a mindset and toolbox for inclusive decision-making and conflict resolution, using collective intelligence and group dynamics. It focuses on building trust, connections, feeling heard and valued, strongly believing that the real power of organisations lies in the strength and resilience of the relationships between people. Leen is a trained deep democracy facilitator and trainer. She is co-founder of All for Climate and co-spark of RegensUnite. She is also active in various local community projects.

​Lana is a Filipina, now based in the Netherlands, who designs spaces for “KAPWA” (shared inner selves) to flourish. She guides founders, community leaders and changemakers in re-imagining, designing and facilitating spaces for belonging, liberation and healing.Lana is the author of the book: Community Builder Designing Communities for Change and she is also the chairperson of the Neurodiversity Foundation, and co-founders of Community Rituals and Neurodiversity Education Academy.Engagement is a big buzzword, and it's one of the main metrics that we, as community builders, weavers, founders, measure our communities. Asking our members to be highly engaged has a pitfall - It carries with it an expectation that there is one right way where members are expected to participate, a specific tempo or energy that people need to bring in to the community or organization. I prefer to see engagement as A SLIDER. We need to provide differentiated means for people to engage in ways that are nurturing for them. Engagement means empowering people to connect, contribute, activate, support and respond in ways that are regenerative. This means we take into account the depth, breadth and focus that is possible for an individual in a given moment.

​Dave started work in an NGO post-University and then moved on to HR & Training in the late 70s when he started working with computers. That together with a diploma from The Certified Accountants got him a job as Development Accountant in the same firm where he headed up the Treasury function and was responsible for computerisation. An MBA in financial management saw him move into consultancy and software designing decision support systems in what became Data Sciences where he became a General Manager (creating MURCO) and the Corporate Business Development Manager where he created the Genus Programme (an integration of JAD/RAD, Object Orientation and Legacy Management) which was one of the main components in the turn around of that company. IBM acquired the company 1997 and, after that, his more public career started.At IBM, he was a director of The Institute for Knowledge Management and the Cynefin Center, and in 2004 became the founder and chief scientific officer of The Cynefin Company.​The Cynefin Co has worked for almost two decades in partnership with academics, artists and complexity scientists and has been taking a fresh look at the whole process of design. Bringing the evolutionary concept of exaltation (radical repurposing of traits) and work on weak signal detection for unarticulated need mapping representing some of the outputs of this process. The use of distributed ethnography is changing the way we design health services as well as society in general and this has been pioneered by Dave Snowden and his team.

Tim is the co-founder of scenarioDNA a research consultancy that advises global clients on how to leverage cultural trends. Tim is also a Part-Time Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons the New School of Design where he teaches trend analysis and design strategy.  He is the co-inventor of a patented methodology of Culture Mapping that analyzes patterns in language using computational linguistics and machine learning to identify and visualize trend narratives and forecasts. His work helps companies understand and leverage the dynamics of cultural change for a broad range of innovation challenges from new product and brand development to horizon scanning. Clients include Honda, KEF Acoustics, IKEA, Nike, Hilton Worldwide, and Verizon.  Tim is also a frequent speaker on topics related to culture, society, and trends and has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, Vogue, Fast Company, and Quartz.​Culture is a story system. Today's challenges require a social science approach to analyzing culture and applying actions in sync with the natural cycle of power and dissent, from protest to policy. We can see the results of shortsighted and top-surface methods to cultural insight imploding around us. From greenwashing in the midst of a climate "permacrisis", to the commercial laziness of relying on celebrity influencers for relevance that quickly devolves into toxic hate speech. Culture matters. But our strategies need to reflect that. In this talk, Tim will explain how the concept of Culture Mapping can help us understand the system of language and stories and speculate and cultivate divergent possible futures.  New prompt engineering tools like Midjourney are rooted in language and cultural bias.  If we can unlock the linguistic system of culture we can take a more a more generative yet expansive approach to make our future more sustainable.

Matt Barney, Ph.D. is an Organizational Psychologist, serial entrepreneur and founder of XLNC, a consulting, training and psychometrics firm that solves difficult business problems with psychological science and innovative technology. Previously, he was the Founder and CEO of LeaderAmp, an award-winning platform for expert and Artificially Intelligent coaching and assessment until May of 2022. In his 25+ year career in multinationals such as AT&T, Motorola, Merck and Infosys, Dr. Barney has innovated interdisciplinary science and technology resulting in four patents, ten books, 43 peer-reviewed works and over 200 keynotes.​In 2020, LeaderAmp won the AI Award for Human Capital Development. In 2018, his team won two competitive international awards from the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the Association of Test Publishers. Since 2014, he has served on the Business Affairs committee of the board of not-for-profit scientific publisher Annual Reviews. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa.Satoshi’s original goal was to create technology that overcomes the historical disasters of centralized, untrustworthy social systems. DAOs have potential to change that but from Mt. Gox, Three Arrows Capital, to rugpulls and FTX, human sources of risk are still limiting the full potential.​This presentation will briefly review Enterprise Risk Management history before introducing the relevant interdisciplinary organizational science of individual, team, and organizational risk management. It will introduce meta-analytically supported evidence from traditional organizations that likely generalizes to DAO management. At the same time, it will review other findings such as Cialdini’s ethical persuasion science, which is likely even more important in a DAO than in a traditional firm. The latest, metrologically-oriented, objective psychometric methods are ideal to detect and mitigate these risks in DAOs, but when these computer-adaptive assessments are deployed on Web 2.0 infrastructure, they suffer from all the traditional limitations of legacy cloud/mobile technology. This is unhelpful for realizing the full potential of DAOs.​The presentation will close with a vision for research that ultimately results in novel smart contracts, and multisig NFTs to systematically assess and mitigate these organizational risks in ways that are immutable, appropriately transparent, censorship resistant, and effective in reducing risks and potentially helping DAOs become “antifragile”.

Jon Alexander studies the history of cooperative movements and shares lessons learned about how decentralized communities can create bridges that inspire larger socio-political change.Jon is author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, a book and company that work to shift the dominant story of the individual in society from Consumer to Citizen. Among other plaudits, CITIZENS was recently listed by McKinsey as one of its Top 5 Recommended Books in its Summer Reading Guide 2022, described as "an underground hit" in the Financial Times, and selected by the World Economic Forum for its CEO Book Club. Jon began his career with a decade in the advertising industry, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year, before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring Consumerism and its alternatives from every angle. In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In CITIZENS, he is ready to share them with the world.