James Stauch is a social-innovation and systems-change educator and consultant based in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He is co-chair of the Banff Systems Summit and a complex-systems strategist with ATCO’s SpaceLab. Stauch is a visiting fellow at the Skoll Centre at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and was the founding executive director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University, where he developed social-innovation, leadership, and systems-focused learning programs for undergraduate students and the broader community. Stauch has also been a foundation executive and philanthropy consultant, which included designing and managing Arctic and northern programming with the Gordon Foundation. His most recent publication is the 2025 book The 55 Minutes: An Atlas to Navigate Problems, Reveal Systems, and Ask Beautiful Questions in a Radically Shifting World.
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