User:Hfinidori
Helene Finidori’s main area of focus is connecting dots and building bridges between people, cultures, disciplines, organizations, technologies, transitionary stages.
Born in Canada and raised in France, Helene lived in many countries including Sweden, the US, Indonesia, Australia. She now lives in Spain.
After studying entrepreneurship at HEC in Paris she specialized in small and medium enterprise and created a niche specialty at the intersection of strategy, branding and organizational development. She worked in the waste management and consumer product industry, for business to business marketing consultancies, as an independent consultant specializing in innovation, IT and prospective, as well as in education and social development. She currently teaches Management and Leadership of Change to business students part of Staffordshire's University's international program in Barcelona.
From brand positioning, culture and strategy she moved to organizational change and cross-cultural collaboration and now focuses on social change, networks and movements and focuses her independent research on the levers of engagement and social change and the tools that can activate them.
Helene is the creator of the PLAST concept and approach, developped as a 'strategy' for change, brought into the FKI for an application to a CAPS H2020 funding program. The idea of PLAST has matured over the past five years of research and interactions with several groups of change agents and activists on social media and at gatherings, ranging from the Commons Action group at the UN, the Global Citizens Movement and Common Good Forum, to Ouishare, The Next Edge, and Edgeryders, from local communities and social entrepreneurs to mainstream practitioners networks such as the Systems Thinking World or Organizational Change Practitioners on Linked In focused on social change.
PLAST evolved from a research on logics of engagement and approaches to change, and a quest for an underlying logic that could connect and coalesce the ubiquitous drive for social change. Pattern Language appeared as the best vehicle for such coalescence. The PLAST concept was first presented at the Worskshop of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University in summer 2014, then at the fist Purplsoc (Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change) workshop in November 2014 in Austria, where it started to gather some momentum.
As a hub connecting networks and communities across domains for the collaborative development of free knowledge, to promote freedom and sustanability through collaboration and empowerment, the FKI is a natural home for PLAST.
