Pierre Golbach is passionate about designing and facilitating processes for multi-stakeholder collaboration, learning and system innovation. Trained in Theory U, Systems Thinking and systemic organizational development, he enables collectives of people and organizations to pool and share knowledge, align their intentions, and co-create pathways for meaningful action.
By creating spaces for individuals and organizations to learn and enact their intentions, Pierre hopes to contribute to a world where we all work for people and planet alike, serving social, environmental and economic needs in a complementary and balanced way.
His recent work includes fostering action-oriented partnerships and scaling solutions for impact in digital health and digital transformation. Passionate about learning environments, Pierre also co-develops Generative Evaluation to bring Theories of Change, continuous systemic learning and human-centered principles to the heart of evaluation in international development.
Previously, Pierre Golbach organized a wide range of peer learning formats bringing together officials from international development organizations around topics such as impact orientation, key performance indicators and collective leadership. Pierre holds a master’s in management from HEC Paris and a master’s in Public Policy and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin.
Pierre has over 8 years of professional experience organizing collective learning, system change, and innovation processes with highly diverse groups of stakeholders in sustainable development, based on:
– human-centered research, analysis of social, political, and technological trends, and challenge-based innovation learning
– participatory consultation and co-creation processes to enable systemic and scalable impact
– for clients such as UNDP, Good Growth Partnership, Gates Foundation, GEF, GIZ, BMZ, digilab
In addition, he has designed, organized, and moderated over 10 virtual multi-stakeholder processes including Theory of Change development, foresight, system mapping, scaling and localizing impact through iterative scaling and innovation journeys as well as over 100 in-person trainings, including needs and trends analysis, programming, instructional design, speaker selection, and coordination, serving staff in European and UN agencies and large NGOs.
Pierre is trained and experienced in a range of participatory and systemic approaches, including Systems Thinking, Futures Literacy, Design Thinking, Generative Facilitation, Theory U, Art of Hosting, Open Space Technology and Systemic Organizational Development, among others.
