Sinéad O'Flanagan

Sinéad O'Flanagan is a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research and teaching interests include leadership, socioeconomic sustainability, organizational transformation, and systems thinking. O’Flanagan advises on sustainable business policy and strategy, executive leadership development, organizational transformation, and experiential teaching pedagogies. She co-designed MIT’s flagship action learning, leadership, and business-sustainability course, Leadership Lab (L-Lab) in 2008. As a teaching team member, O’Flanagan is responsible for integrating field-based project work with theoretical course work and ensuring effective implementation of collaborative projects. The course engages external organizations to examine complex global issues of leading sustainable businesses using systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and experiential practice.