Organizational transformation from the inside out: reinventing the MIT Center for Organizational Learning

This article provides experiential based insights into the process of organizational transformation, changing not only the organization’s structure and practice but also the thinking and quality of interaction among the people who compose it. It traces the two‐year change process undertaken at the MIT Center for Organizational Learning which resulted in a new self‐governed, non‐profit membership organization, the Society for Organizational Learning. It describes the context for the process, why it was undertaken, the key conceptual models that guided it, the results, what we learned and the implication for achieving fundamental change in contemporary organizations.