All email addresses are firstname@systemschange.fi. You can contact any of our links to get going with a topic that they know about.
Our current circles and their members can be checked out on Glassfrog.
Memberships & Finance Link
Do you have any questions regarding joining the association or memberships in general? Or handle our finances. Feel free to contact Dora!
Dora Hietavirta
Memberships & Finance Link & Chairperson of the board
+358 40 242 1158
Dora merges learning & development, team learning, community education, global citizenship education, community development, employee experience and now adding a sharpened focus on systems innovation and change management.
Event Support Link
Do you have an idea for a future event we might host? Contact our Event Support Link to get forward with these and similar questions!
Mikael Seppälä
Event Support Circle Link & Vice-chairperson of the board
+358 50 326 8238
Mikael is a globally networked systems thinker with a focus on systems innovation and innovation management. He has lately been working on practices for complex collaboration, innovation ecosystems and innovation portfolios.
Core Team
Tero Hokkanen
Alternate board member
Tero is a big picture generalist and his main focus is to understand how to build a sustainable society/humanity. Striving for learning, understanding, and clarity.
Iina Santamäki
Core team member
Iina is a collaborator, learning facilitator, and space holder. She is passionate about holistic well-being, regenerative leadership, and co-creating a more sustainable future and present for all.
Helén Marton
Core team member
Helén is a strategic designer with expertise in co-design and systems thinking. Trained in design (BDes) with an MA in Creative Sustainability, she is passionate about developing and leading participatory processes to address complex sustainability challenges.
Arnaldo Pellini
Alternate board member
Arnaldo is an international development consultant and researcher who has been involved for the past 15 years in the design and implementation of problem-driven initiatives aimed at strengthening governance and knowledge systems in low and medium income countries.
Gunta Krumina
Board member
Gunta is an innovative and creative critical thinker, business development consultant, and applied systems thinking facilitator and advocate.
Pia Adibe
Alternate board member
Pia is a researcher and project manager at LUT University School of Business and Management studying collaboration and organizing; and Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management Magazine Tietoasiantuntija, published by Tietojohtaminen ry. “Compassion is action. All is interconnected.”
Jussi Hölttä
Core team member
Jussi is a certified coach (ICF ACC), facilitator and an expert on agile learning and co-creation. His personal side quest is learning Everything.
Tanja Korvenmaa
Core team member
Tanja is an Art of Hosting practitioner, organisational consultant and a permaculturalist. She has experience in building up networks that encourage networking and sharing knowledge of sustainable lifestyles. Tanja is currently a coach in the EIT Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice -programme.
Kari Mikkelä
Alternate board member
Kari’s professional mission is to support innovation, growth and internationalization in ecosystem service businesses: innovation orchestration for pioneering and early adapter organisations and networks. He’s well integrated to the global R&D&I expertise communities, where he’s also held many trustee positions.
Zeynep Falay von Flittner
Board member
Zeynep Falay von Flittner is is an experienced design leader, entrepreneur, design consultant and public speaker focusing on the role of creative and design practices on sustainability transitions. She is combining systems thinking, foresight and human centric design to develop new methods and approaches to support companies and networks to build new capabilities around sustainability transitions.
Prabesh Khatiwada
Core team member
Prabesh has served and lead student union politics during his University life in Finland, later worked as a preschool teacher. Currently, his practice revolves around helping different entities to understanding and address complex systemic problems as a coach and as an educator. He is a graduate of Socionomi from Diak UAS, Finland and MSc.Social Entrepreneurship and Management from Roskilde University, Denmark.
Markus Vähälä
Board member
Markus is a citizenship, disability and mental health activist, developer, musician, politician and ready to make a positive change together with you! Markus is the CEO of international Citizen Network Coop and Development Manager of the Center for Wellbeing and Culture Kukunori in Finland.
Aki Saariaho
Board member
Aki is a philosopher, entrepreneur and a teacher (English, Ethics, Philosophy) who loves people, problem-solving and networking. These skills he has worked vigorously on for 40+ years. He has grown rather good and fond of them. Aki has been a teacher on the upper secondary level (15-19 year-olds) for 20+ years. He is an avid fan of citizen activism and is a part of several organizations/associations on the board and founding level.
Piritta Hannonen
Board member
Piritta co-creates more sustainable futures with the people in their different lifeworlds. As a designer she is working in transitions and interested in wisely entwining actions.
Pekka Enroth
Core team member
Pekka is a management professional who views organizations as vast and complex networks of organizational practices. His slogan is “Shared stuff is best developed by experimenting things together.”