Dr. Melanie Goodchild, Anishinaabe (Ojibway), moose clan, is a design and innovation strategist with over 30 years’ experience working with First Nations communities across Turtle Island.  She is from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations. Her practice has transitioned from applied sociology to Anishinaabe, decolonial and participatory approaches to better understand how to tackle complex systems challenges.  She is a contributing faculty member with the u-school For Transformation by Presencing Institute at MIT and the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning.  Dr. Goodchild is passionate about utilizing complexity-aware tools together with Anishinaabe gikendaasowin (our original ways of knowing) to support deep systems awareness and transformative systems change.  She is the Systems Changer in Residence with the Canadian Association of Science Centres (CASC), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, a member of the Measuring Systems Practice Development Group with Social Impact Exchange in New York City, a member of the Pathways to Planetary Health advisory group at the Garrison Institute, and she is a certified 3 Horizons facilitator.  In 2024 Melanie was an advisor to the Edge Finance Accelerator at Solvable and a Systems Coach with the Center for Care Innovations in California.   She serves as a member of Policy Horizons Canada’s Deputy Minister Steering Committee.  Melanie holds a Ph.D. in Social and Ecological Sustainability from the University of Waterloo and an MA and HBA in Sociology from Lakehead University.  She was a university finalist for the Alumni Gold Medal at the doctoral level in the Faculty of Environment, 2023 recipient and she is an alumna of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation’s Fellows Program (2015/16) sponsored by Harvard Business School and INSEAD.