Diana wrote the O’Reilly book, Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills & Practices for Software Professionals. She has 20+ years experience engineering and architecting software systems for organizations including The Economist, The Wikimedia Foundation, Stanford, The Gates Foundation, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Teach For All.
Her company, Mentrix, designs systems and publishes learning experiences for aspiring nonlinear thinkers.
Diana lives in the Hudson Valley (New York, USA) with three dogs, one cat and nine chicken
In the tech industry, we are most interested in knowledge stock: What do you know? What information can you apply easily? Whiteboard tests, for example, assess a candidate's stock of knowledge.This focus is holding many individuals, teams and organizations back. As relational complexity increases, individual knowledge stock is insufficient. What we need is knowledge flow.When we craft and share kn...
Join Nigel Thurlow, a leading voice in systems and complexity thinking and the former Chief of Agile at Toyota, as he hosts what is likely to be a hot debate between two leading thinkers in this space. Dave Snowden the preeminent expert in complexity thinking, and Diana Montalion who comes from a systems architecture background and applies systems thinking to manage in complex environments. W...