Shobi Lawalata
Shobi Lawalata is a Senior Facilitator and the Director of Learning and Academic programs at United in Diversity Foundation (UID); and seconded as the Academic Director of Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center. Driven by a deep awe of our complex living world and a passion to co-create a more equitable, sustainable, and compassionate future, Shobi has been working on enabling societal transformation through UID and TSEA learning programs.
Shobi has worked with various governmental, civil society, and business institutions to facilitate large-scale transformation processes through leadership and systemic innovations. She leads UID’s BEKAL Pemimpin program, which brings together Indonesia’s tri-sector emerging environmental leaders for system leadership capacity building; as well as TSEA’s inaugural offering Happy Digital X: Cities, Systems, Products, and Services which educates next-generation urban development actors to utilize technology and cross-sector collaboration for happier and more sustainable future cities.
Shobi earned her doctoral degree in Integrative Biology from University of California, Berkeley in 2011, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2004 from University of Indonesia. She is an alumna of IDEAS Indonesia, a UID-MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Leadership program for leading collective innovation in complex systems, and Presencing Institute’s Ecosystem Leadership Program. At home, she is a wife and a mom to a 7-year-old daughter, and in her spare time enjoys decluttering, reading, tending to her planted fish tanks, watching Netflix, knitting, and karaoke.
Shobi has worked with various governmental, civil society, and business institutions to facilitate large-scale transformation processes through leadership and systemic innovations. She leads UID’s BEKAL Pemimpin program, which brings together Indonesia’s tri-sector emerging environmental leaders for system leadership capacity building; as well as TSEA’s inaugural offering Happy Digital X: Cities, Systems, Products, and Services which educates next-generation urban development actors to utilize technology and cross-sector collaboration for happier and more sustainable future cities.
Shobi earned her doctoral degree in Integrative Biology from University of California, Berkeley in 2011, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2004 from University of Indonesia. She is an alumna of IDEAS Indonesia, a UID-MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Leadership program for leading collective innovation in complex systems, and Presencing Institute’s Ecosystem Leadership Program. At home, she is a wife and a mom to a 7-year-old daughter, and in her spare time enjoys decluttering, reading, tending to her planted fish tanks, watching Netflix, knitting, and karaoke.