Conference Speaker Profile - Natalia Mironova  
 
Natalia Mironova

Biography: Natalia's scientific interests have focused on the origin of transformations as well as the philosophy and psychology of self-organization and management in open inhomogeneous chaotic socio-cultural systems. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the State Governance in Russian Academy of State Service, with a thesis titled "The Role of Civil Society in Modern State Governance." She earned her undergraduate degree in Thermodynamic Engineering from Chelyabinsk Polytech University. Post-graduate studies include the systemic approaches to nuclear safety at the Center for Russian Studies at Stanford University in California and at the Jimmy Carter Center at Emory University. She has also studied the social application of Chaos Theory at Schumacher College in the United Kingdom under the direction of Fritjof Capra, Arthur Zajonc, and Rupert Sheldrake. For the last 2 years she had deep conversations with the best world scientific leaders, including Russell Ackoff, Edgar Schein, Randall Collins, and Antony Giddens.

Natalia has written two books, "Social Dynamics: Self-Organization and Management Metamorphoses" in 2005 and "Civil Socium in Modern State Governance" in 2007, as well as over 70 scientific, social and political articles and reports regarding environmental and nuclear safety issues and civil sector development in regions facing environmental concern created by the nuclear arms race.

Natalia's scientific interest is growing with 15 years of experience in project management with NGOs and in providing "Society-Government Nuclear Policy Dialogues" in Russia and the USA. In addition, she has experience in governance and legislation after being elected to local Parliament and then appointed Head of Nuclear Safety Committee for the Chelyabinsk State Administration. For 10 years , she served as assistant to a Russian State Duma legislator. She is Member of Board of the Institute for Public Policy and Law, and the founder and President of the Movement for Nuclear Safety.

Natalia can be reached by email at nmironova@gmail.com

Title: Bringing Progress In2 a Multi-Paradigm Reality


Abstract: Presentation explores interdisciplinary opportunity to tie management, sociology and chaos theory in progress to understand a multi-paradigm reality and social dynamics. Driving from philosophies of Russell Ackoff, Karl Popper, Pitirim Sorokin and Ilya Prigogine (and other systemic thinkers), we discuss three paradigms' frames for four patterns of human interactions: mental identity, behaviour identity, organizational and power spheres, as well as interconnections and interdependencies of these patterns of behaviors in social dynamics.