Rike Pätzold consults, writes, teaches and is passionate about emergence, collaboration, futures literacy and how to deal well with uncertainty and complexity.
As Head of the Institut für Praktische Emergenz, she explores new ways to change living systems from the inside out. Rike is a Munich native, where she now lives again with her patchwork family after circumnavigating the North Atlantic on a sailboat. Rike holds a Master’s degree in Chinese and Japanese Studies and Language Philosophy. She has lived in Taiwan for several years to deepen her knowledge of Mandarin and Daoism.
In her work Rike is all about a mind shift regarding how we handle Uncertainty. She works with leaders from a wide range of industries, organizations and institutions and she teaches at universities and colleges.
Rike is co-founder of NxF | navigate by fiction, the process for collaborative future prototyping for organizations in economy and politics.
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