Rich Bernato
Richard Bernato, Ed. D. enters his fifty-third year in schooling, that spans higher education, research, many K-12 leadership roles, and consulting with and presenting to many school districts. His interests include catalyzing interactive and research-based effective curricula that are a result of futuring systems, planning, decision making, and high engagement of all stakeholders to ensure systemically healthy schooling and organizational practices.
His books Futures-Based Change Leadership (2017) and Planning as Futuring, Futuring as Planning (2020) capture those ideas. He is also co-author of The Collective Mindset (2022), a futures-based change leadership simulation, Alchemy, blogs, and articles that are devoted to that vision. An expert on simulations for learning and organizational improvement, Dr. Bernato, supports all efforts to reform schools for futures they have yet to consider.