IHMA Intellectual Shamans Series with with Ralph Hamann

Join Ralph Hamann for an Intellectual Shamans Webinar

December 3, 2025 9:00 am EDT (3:00pm CET)

Please join us for an Intellectual Shamans Webinar with Ralph Hamann, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. December 3, 2025, 9:00 EST (3:00 pm CET)

It’s become common to see multi-stakeholder dialogue as an important pathway towards social innovation, especially if we are aiming for the kind of innovation that seeks changes to routines and rules underpinning complex social-ecological problems. But what does it actually take to convene such dialogue over extended periods, and can researchers take on such a role? In this session, Ralph will share some of his experiences in establishing, convening, and working with the Southern Africa Food Lab over many years, to establish a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform that seeks to help address the problem of hunger and malnutrition in the region.

[Note: For those interested, please check out Ralph and colleagues’ paper on this topic, available here: https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270241279132. An op-ed article is available here: https://theconversation.com/not-just-talk-how-dialogue-can-help-address-complex-problems-256825]

Bios:

Ralph Hamann is Professor and Deputy Director: Faculty and Research at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. His research and teaching are on strategy and sustainability, social innovation and entrepreneurship, and cross-sector collaboration. Among his other roles, he is co-founder and director of the Embedding Project South Africa and the Southern Africa Food Lab, initiatives bridging research and practice.

Sandra Waddock is Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. She is author of more than 200 papers and chapters and 16 books, the latest of which is Catalyzing Transformation: Making System Change Happen (Business Expert Press, 2024), and the earlier Intellectual Shamans: Management Academics Making a Difference (Cambridge, 2014) on which this series is based.

https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/sandra-waddock-homepage/

Please register for the Intellectual Shamans webinar.