Michael Lennon is Senior Fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership (CEPL), a social entrepreneur, and community “happtivist”. He specializes in participatory evidence-based journeys for building collective human performance & flourishing.
At GWU, he teaches Govpreneurship, Evidence-based Management and Innovation Design. Recent work has included assisting Washington Metro Council of Governments and the World Bank to incorporate human well-being measurement in performance monitoring activities; advising USAID PPL staff of evidence emerging outside of traditional Development knowledge domains with potentially transformative impacts on USAID programmatic and strategy formulation practices; and collaborating with IEEE practitioners to develop a global engineering standard for monitoring AI’s impact on human well-being. In recognition of his “community happtivism” work, on the 1st U.N. International day of Happiness, Sir Richard Layard issued a proclamation from the House of Lords including Mr. Lennon as one of the year’s 20 global Happiness Heroes.
During the panel, Mr. Lennon will speak mostly about insights of value to the International Development community from his Oct 2020 Paper to IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Toronto, SMC2020.org) “Activating Collective Intelligence for Transdisciplinary Impact.”