Speaker Bio: Derek Cabrera is an internationally known systems scientist and is faculty at Cornell University where he teaches systems thinking, systems leadership, and systems mapping and is Faculty Director for the Graduate Certification Program in Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership (STML). He is co-founder of Cabrera Research Lab. He has given two TED Talks, written and produced a rap song, a children’s book on cognition, and authored numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. He was invited by LinkedIn Learning to develop courses on systems thinking and systems leadership & organizational design. He was also invited by eCornell to deliver the online course in Systems Thinking and Leadership. He is author of ten books including, Systems Thinking Made Simple (winner of the 2017 AECT outstanding book award), Thinking at Every Desk, and Flock Not Clock. He is credited with discovering the universal organizing rules of systems. His work in public schools was documented in the full-length documentary film, RE:Thinking. He serves on the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Systems Engineering Advisory Board. Cabrera has developed and patented a suite of systems thinking tools including the first validated personal inventory of systems thinking. Prior to becoming a scientist, Cabrera worked for fifteen years around the world as a mountain guide and experiential educator for Outward Bound and has climbed many of the world’s highest mountains.He holds a PhD from Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, NY, with his wife, Laura Cabrera, three children, and two dogs.