Frances Westley has published widely in the areas of strategic change and visionary leadership, and led the Dupont Canada--fostered think-tank on social innovation, based at McGill University's Desautel Faculty of Management, where many of the ideas for this book were developed. Brenda Zimmerman, a professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University, has been studying and writing about how complexity theory applies to organizations for twenty years. Michael Quinn Patton is an independent organizational development consultant and has written five major books on the art and science of program evaluation.
