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Allenna Leonard is an American expert in cybernetics. She is also a consultant and leads Team Syntegrity International. Her work focuses on using ideas from Stafford Beer, especially his Viable System Model and a method called Syntegration.
Allenna Leonard was the president of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) from 2002 to 2004. She also led the International Society for the Systems Sciences from 2009 to 2010. During her time as president, she helped organize their 54th yearly meeting in Waterloo, Canada. Since 2022, she has been the president of Metaphorum, an organization that explores how we use metaphors to understand the world.
About Allenna Leonard
Her Education
Allenna Leonard studied at several universities. She earned her first degree, a Bachelor of Arts, from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. She then received a Master of Arts degree in Higher Education Administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Later, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her advanced studies focused on administration with a special interest in cybernetics, which is the study of how systems control and communicate.
Her Work and Leadership
Allenna Leonard works as a consultant through an organization called The Complementary Set. She helps people and groups use the Viable System Model, a tool for understanding how organizations work. She also teaches part-time at a university and is a representative for the Cwarel Isaf Institute. Currently, she is the Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. in Toronto, Canada.
From 1981 until his death in 2002, Allenna Leonard worked closely with Stafford Beer. She has shared that she is dedicated to continuing to use and share his important work. She is especially interested in using Syntegration as a way for people to have fair and open discussions, particularly about important public issues.
See also
- Variety (cybernetics)
- Viable System Model
