GCDN Annual Convening – Los Angeles 2025

This is a tough chapter for cultural leaders. Daily geopolitical realignments, technological advances, and societal and environmental upheaval – ‘wicked’ problems – have upended assumptions about our roles and responsibilities, where they start and where they end. Choices – often with personal and ethical dimensions as well as practical ones – confront us with monotonous frequency.

Calculus is the mathematical study of continuous change. In our period of continuous and, indeed, accelerating change, what calculus should we apply to our professional decision-making? What values should we protect, and what accommodations must we live with?