As a devoted scientist, Maja is advocating system transformations for sustainable development and tries to develop new prosperity models. She helped start up the World Future Council, is a member of the Club of Rome and the Balaton Group and serves on several boards. With her research and a lot of passion, Maja is driven by the goal to really understand how societal change and a personal transformation can be facilitated. And she is dedicated to working on understanding and changing the way that an outdated economic paradigm and development story is instrumental in blocking the transformational change required for a sustainability turn. What she strives for is no less than a system change.

Maja finds that the Lab is not only a place where new thoughts can be developed and tested, but also “an amazing possibility to re-evaluate, deepen and embellish ideas, strategies and networks” and “a great accelerator for existing projects”. The Lab has had a sobering and motivating effect on Maja, to continue working on the force of personal and structural transformation with a deep and wide set of methods and approaches. And, since it is her firm belief, “that human beings could be better off if development was reconceptualised more holistically”, the Lab and its approaches – in particular the practical methods of Theory U – happened just at the right time. In retrospect, she is happy that she could combine the Lab experience with former leadership trainings and a longer-standing Buddhist practice. Thus inspired, she keeps on researching and integrating other organizational change approaches to bring those into sustainability thinking and practice.