A forthcoming book by Tomas Thundiyil

CONSTITUTION

How speaking and listening create who we are and what becomes possible.

We think language reports a reality that is already there. What if it also helps bring that reality into being?

The central inquiry

What becomes possible when we see language not as a tool for reporting reality, but as part of the machinery through which human reality is constituted?

Scholar · Author · Operator

Scholarship informed by the lived work of organizations.

Tomas is an associate professor of management, author, and scholar-operator whose work connects rigorous inquiry with the practical problems of leadership, coordination, and institutional life.

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The work

Studying how people, organizations, and futures are made in conversation.

Research program

The science of constitution

An academic program connecting language, listening, leadership, organizational change, and the creation of futures.

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Speaking & media

Conversations that alter what can be seen and done

Talks, interviews, and executive conversations for people confronting a future that cannot be reached by extending the past.

Speaking and media