Kathia Laszlo
School: Organizational Leadership and Transformation
Bio:
Kathia Castro Laszlo, Ph.D. is Director of the Specialization in Leadership of Sustainable Systems at Saybrook University. As an educator, researcher, consultant and social entrepreneur, Kathia has been active in leadership, organizational, and community development with a strong systemic and sustainability focus since the early 90s. She co-founded Syntony Quest - an international think tank dedicated to designing innovative ways of working, learning and living that embody social and environmental integrity. She is currently advising the design of a the new Universidad del Medio Ambiente (University of the Environment) in central Mexico.
Kathia Co-Chairs the Special Integration Group on Evolutionary Development for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), of which she is past Vice-President and Board Member and has been an active researcher within the International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR) in Austria since 1998. Her publications are in the areas of evolutionary development, knowledge management, future trends in education, learning technologies, sustainable business strategy and evolutionary systems thinking.
In 1996, Kathia came to San Francisco, as a Fulbright Scholar from Mexico, to do her doctoral studies under the mentorship of Bela H. Banathy at Saybrook Graduate School in the area of Human Science with emphasis on social and institutional change. She is holder of a Masters Degree in Education with specialization in Cognitive Development, and of a B.A. in the field of Marketing. Kathia was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award in systems science for her work on evolutionary learning communities and of the Förderpreis Akademischer Klub award of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland for her work in education for social innovation and sustainable development.
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Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Co-Chair of Research Team on Learning Systems for Sustainability. International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR), Pernegg, Austria, April 2010.
Presenter on From Systems Thinking to Systems Being at Change the Game Initiative symposium, Salzburg, Austria, April 2010.
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
Ph.D. Human Science, specialization Social and Institutional Change
Saybrook University, San Francisco, 2000
M.Ed. Cognitive Development
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, 1997
B.A. Marketing
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, 1992
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Current Publications
3. Leaders of Change: Social entrepreneurship and the creation of ecologies of solution. Action Learning and Action Research Journal, Vol. 15 No. 1, April 2009.
Important Conference Presentations
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
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Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research |
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| Field Experiments |
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| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
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| Quasi-experimental methods |
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| Correlational Methods |
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Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
5 |
| Survey Research |
4 |
| Interview Research |
4 |
| Observational Research |
4 |
| Epidemiological Research |
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| Ethnography |
2 |
| Focus Groups |
3 |
| Self-Observational Methods |
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| Narrative Methods |
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| Feminist Methods |
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| Content Analysis |
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| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
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| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
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| Archival Research |
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| Case History Methods |
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| Appreciative Inquiry |
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| Multiple Case Depth Research |
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| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
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| Longitudinal research |
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| Cross-sectional research |
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Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
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| Hermeneutics |
3 |
| Grounded Theory |
3 |
| Phenomenology |
3 |
| Heuristic Research |
3 |
Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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