Anna Birney is Chief Enabling Officer at the School of System Change. Anna is passionate about designing and facilitating systems change programmes that support people, communities, and organisations to transform their practice which seeded the set up the School of System Change in 2016, where she designs the curriculum, supports and works with the facilitators, and continues to weave learning together about the field of systems change.

Anna started facilitating multi-stakeholder processes in 2002, working at WWF-UK a six-year education programme on system change. She has worked with a wide range of organisations and initiatives on systems change from to Unilever and Nike, Bosch Foundation, to Scottish Climate Assembly, as well as being a collaborative director on Marine CoLab and #Oneless, developing their systems change learning and practice. At the core of her work are action inquiries in how we organise, the power and relationships to paradigm shifting questions about love and the meaning of life.

Zoya is a co-founder of resense360 and Network partner of the School of System Change. She works at the intersection of systems change, strategy and learning, supporting organisations, networks and leaders in navigating complexity and driving meaningful transformation processes. Zoya is a co-author of a series of educational courses on systems change and co-developer of Ecosystem Cards — a tool to support individuals, teams, organisations and networks to explore the potentials and implications of adopting an ecosystem approach in their work. Her expertise in the field of systems change draws on multiple theories, approaches, frameworks, and tools, including systems dynamics, futures thinking, complexity practice, regenerative development, deep equity and others.

Zoya is particularly passionate about weaving impact-driven networks and believes in the power of connected communities to shape a more equitable and sustainable future. She has worked with both global and local networks, including the Responsible Leaders Network (BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt), the Bosch Alumni Network, the Impact Hub Network, and the Filmkultur Netzwerk NRW, among others.