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Across human history, long periods of small changes have been disrupted by a small shift that compounded into bigger shifts – transforming the landscape of life entirely. We are in the middle of such a transformation, where both our social challenges and our ability to respond are multiplying and mutating at an unprecedented pace. Would linear solutions that may have worked in the past be adequate for the future? This moment compels us to pause, reflect, and respond with exponential thinking. How can we learn from exponential changes currently in progress? How do we respond to exponential challenges with exponential change?

Now more than ever before, we are uniquely positioned to appreciate and solve the world’s growing and mutating problems. We straddle urgency and possibility – equipped with the knowledge, technology and resources to solve as the problems around us simmer and bubble. However, solving these exponential problems needs a paradigm shift – moving from thinking linearly (from 1 to 2 to 3) to thinking about creating exponential change – when one change leads to more and rapid changes (1 to 10 to 100). Think about how a small domino can eventually topple a much bigger domino, or how when we blow on a dandelion, its seeds spread far and wide, nurturing more dandelions. 

Centre for Exponential Change was set up as a network of support for change leaders who are trying to catalyse exponential change – System Orchestrators. 

At C4EC, we support System Orchestrators by: 

• Co-travelling the exponential change journeys with them in India, Indonesia, South Africa, Kenya, Brazil and US in Health, Livelihoods, Equity, Climate and Education. Some of the big questions we are trying to answer are: How can we restore the agency of communities towards climate action? How can we ensure irreversible economic mobility?
• Bringing together a network where funders, thinkers, experts and mentors lend the right help at the right time to System Orchestrators. Our co-founders (Instituto Beja, New Profit, Nilekani Philanthropies, Skoll Foundation, Waverley Foundation and Yellowwoods) care deeply about creating a safe space for System Orchestrators to pause, reimagine, ideate, design and build for this paradigm shift with this network. 
• Building the field of exponential change by learning from these journeys and curating the frameworks, core values and design principles that help reimagine and design for exponential change as open knowledge for anyone to use and build upon.

We invite you to join the exponential change movement.