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Francois is an Advisor of the SHINE Program at the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Founder of “Sauer and Associates, LLC” a Leawood Kansas based consulting firm that, as a catalyst, helps executives manifest to the fullest their own talents.
Francois has expertise in systems thinking, human relations, and international operations (Latin America and Europe). As a catalyst, author, philosopher and scientist his proven problem solving approaches are both innovative and pragmatic. His passion is to stimulate, in scientists and executives, the inner development of their own cognitive and creative processes.
Author of “Relearn, Evolve, and Adapt: An Essay to Integrate Creative Imagination with Socially Conditioned Thought and Behavior”. His book demonstrates how we are the architects of our lives, and become what we think about. (http://relearnevolveandadapt.com/)
Over the past three decades Francois has delivered organizational improvements and profitable business growths. He has served as a CEO, executive, adviser, and consultant to large enterprises as well as start-up ventures. His tenure has included Banamex (Health Services executive), DEC and AT&T, and CEO of Cerner International, subsidiary of Cerner Corporation https://www.cerner.com/
He excels in aligning multiple constituencies, fostering collaboration between diverse groups, and integrating human capital, information capital, and organization capital. These strengths allow him to effectively deliver the organization's customer value proposition and the targeted financial results. He is adroit at creating the requisite human relationships to integrate technology with the business processes necessary to promote organizational improvement and profitable business growth.
In the business world Francois is a board member of CritiTech and also of its four subsidiaries and an adviser to two startup companies: Flow Forward and Metactive.
In the non-for-profit world, Francois is a member of the System Dynamics Society (MIT), the Supercourse (distributed by WHO) and the Kickwood Society of the American Red Cross, as well as a board member of Baker University and a former board member of the KC American Red Cross and of the KC International Relations Council.
Some of Francois accomplishments are:
In Mexico, he redesigned, implemented, and operated Banamex’s healthcare delivery system covering 100,000 lives. The new system increased customer satisfaction from 50 percent to 80 percent and concurrently cut average costs per individual by 50 percent. This level of cost reduction was sustained and documented for five years. Subsequently, more than half of Mexico’s banking system adopted this business model.
In Europe, he implemented, as a member of a five-person strategic team, the restructuring of Digital-Europe (31,000 people) from a geographical model to an industry-focused model. This new structure enabled the company to better recognize and respond to the specific needs of each industry segment and was accepted by European labor unions. As a result, the volume of sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa exceeded U.S. sales.
In US, he served as one of the five initial developers of the Global Health Net (GHNet), an international effort led by Dr. Ron LaPorte that uses the power of information technology to improve education on prevention in Public Health. Launched in 1993 at a meeting of the Pan American Health Organization, GHNet (www.pitt.edu/~super1/) is now the largest free preventive public health education website distributed by WHO.
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Awakening learning with the “BA Serageldin Research methods library” |
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The purpose of this presentation is to show that the “BA Serageldin Research methods library” initiative improves the opportunity for scientists to learn by providing: “curated” knowledge and a “self-organized living network of scientists” contributing their own enthusiasm to learn, as teachers and mentors.
Why can BA Serageldin Research methods library especially help young scientists to overcome some basic human cognitive limitations and to better identify, assimilate and apply their findings in sciences? This is because the BA Serageldin Research methods library is concurrently:
• A “physical and a virtual place” and
• A “self-organized living network of scientists” that may contribute to balance and harmonize the ethical, social and civic values associated to the development of sciences.
As humans, we frequently may resist the possibility to implement the scientific research methods, because it is not easy to either overcome the inertia of our ignorance or to consider the possibility to have bias and prejudices when we believe that our current knowledge is perfect and absolute. Roger Bacon, in Europe, in the 13th century, described the relevance of a repeating cycle of “observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and the need for independent verification”.
One example, to document the ignorance or the resistance of people to use the research methods to consider new scientific findings, is the history of bloodletting.
Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economy, in his book “Think Fast and Slow” mentions two agents that govern our thinking: “System one” and “System two”. The “System one” is almost effortless, with low consumption of energy. This reflexive or automatic thinking is always on. The “System two” is very effortful, this reflective thinking is only engaged on demand because of it consumes a large amount of energy. The caveat is that, in the context of the “least effort”, the effortless reflexive thinking of “System one” governs the perception and the first interpretation of the environmental stimuli, including new scientific findings. “System one” uses our current social imprints that includes our bias and prejudices. Changing these socially imprinted references in “System one” is very difficult because today, to erase the identified dysfunctional information as a result of: new scientific findings or changes in the social environment; we need to actively engage the participation of our “System two”.
A scientist faces four different challenges to update its mental models. These are to: adapt, relearn, evolve and act. The decision, to address these four challenges, demands the engagement of “System two” that consumes a great amount of energy. The “self-organized living network of scientists” may offer a great scientific, moral and social support to scientists. In addition, to having access to a curated and validated knowledge “currently” trustworthy.
The BA Serageldin Research methods library’s contributions are to harmonize and balance ethical, social and civic values as well as to be an energy saver that increases the productivity of scientists to embrace new paradigm to help the Humanity to better survive and thrive.
The promotion of scientific research methods, within the context of the SDG, may help address and dissolve some of the world’s economic insecurities, social confrontations.
The BA Serageldin Research methods library, by providing a cognitive, scientific and social network of trust may help scientists to better understand the dynamic dance of the feedback loops between our values, our actions and the responses from the global environment, to more effectively and efficiently leverage their scientific contributions to strengthen, in the context of the SDG: Sustainability, Health and the complete state of the individual’s Wellbeing. |
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