# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-scharmer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:37:13.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-scharmer"
name: "Otto Scharmer"
slug: "otto-scharmer"
description: "Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder of the Presencing Institute and its u-school for Transformation. He focuses on awareness-based action research with leaders across various sectors, anchored in the concept of presencing, a method of \"learning from the emerging future\", which he introduced in his books Theory U (2007) and Presence."
tagline: "Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA and founder of the Presencing Institute"
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gender: "male"
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category:
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birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump