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About Kevin Lindsay
Kevin Lindsay is a 25+ year Silicon Valley software product strategist and marketer, who developed a passion for systems thinking and cybernetics while he was a graduate student in transformative leadership at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Kevin is interested in complexity and paradox, and the power of systems thinking to help us understand and tackle the big messes humanity created and is now dealing with. Kevin has been an NBN host since July 2020.NBN Episodes hosted by Kevin:
January 20, 2024
Systems Mapping
There is a growing need across social, environmental, and policy challenges for richer, more nuanced, yet actionable and participatory understanding o…
November 3, 2023
Ready for Anything
Recently I had a chance to sit down for a long overdue chat with Anthony (Tony) Hodgson. When we last spoke it happened to be for my very first episod…
January 29, 2023
Design Journeys Through Complex Systems
As I slowly settle into 2023 — reflecting on the blur that was 2022 — I can’t help but think about the complex problems (aka big messes!) we face at e…
September 12, 2022
Systems Inspired Leadership
Listeners who have tuned in to my most recent episodes here on Systems and Cybernetics will be familiar with what seems be a current running theme…
August 17, 2022
Impact Networks
I recently caught up with the very busy David Erlichman, co-founder and coordinator of the Converge network (www.converge.net), about his fantastic bo…
July 25, 2022
Indirect Work
I recently got a chance to talk to Carol Sanford about her newest book Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Instit…
April 1, 2022
Metamodernity
So what is metamodernity you may ask, and what does it have to do with systems thinking and cybernetics? Well, I recently had a chance to find out for…
February 28, 2022
Becoming Gaia
In this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with Sean Kelly, professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of I…
February 8, 2022
Patterns of Connection
Welcome to the first Systems and Cybernetics episode of 2022! After a short break over the holidays to rest and spend time with family (and, of course…
December 14, 2021
The Web of Meaning
In this episode of Systems and Cybernetics I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jeremy Lent, talking with him about his newest book The Web of …
November 19, 2021
Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking
I recently sat down with Josep M. Coll to discuss his new book Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation (R…
September 27, 2021
Stafford Beer
In this episode I am in conversation with artist and author Vanilla Beer about her 2019 book Stafford Beer: The Father of Management Cybernetics. Whil…
September 1, 2021
Systems Thinkers
In this episode I spoke with Magnus Ramage, co-author of Systems Thinkers (Springer, 2020). This second edition provides an update to Ramage’s and co-…
July 27, 2021
Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide
Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with appropriate tool…
June 17, 2021
Sand Talk
Although it is not described as such anywhere in the book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (HarperOne, 2021) is indeed a systems…
March 22, 2021
Managing Creativity
For over a century, creativity has unfolded as a valuable field of knowledge. Emerging from disciplines like psychology, management and education, the…
February 8, 2021
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking
The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in Climate Emergency (Routledge, 2020) is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems thinking c…
December 16, 2020
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
“To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature and ideas.” Nora Bat…
November 4, 2020
Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World
This is the second episode of a two-part conversation with Hodgson, and in it we pick up our conversation on anticipatory systems and the role they pl…