Helene has a background in business strategy, branding and organizational development. She is a Senior Research Fellow at The Schumacher Institute. Until recently she taught Management and Leadership of Change in the Barcelona Centre of the International Program of Staffordshire University. Her main area of research are social change and systemic perspectives, with a focus on the development of tools and approaches for transformative action, and in particular those connecting dots and building bridges between people, organizations, cultures, disciplines, types of knowledges and languages. Helene is currently engaged in the PLAST project (Pattern Languages for Systemic Transformation), topic of her upcoming PhD. This project is developing an ecosystem of tools and methodologies for collective Intelligence around pattern languages of the fourth generation, oriented towards the collective interpretation and active monitoring of evolving socio-technical-economic and environmental systems.