Forthcoming book
CONSTITUTION
A trade book for intelligent general readers about the hidden role language plays in perception, identity, institutions, and the futures we inhabit.
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How language shapes the worlds we live in.
Tomas Thundiyil studies how conversation does more than describe reality. It participates in creating people, organizations, institutions, and futures.
Across theory and practice
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.
Meet TomasThe 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?
Current work
A body of work about constitution, conversation, and the future.
Research program
The science of constitution
An academic program connecting language, listening, leadership, organizational change, and the creation of futures.
View the researchSpeaking & conversation
For organizations confronting a future that cannot be reached by extending the past.
Tomas speaks with executives, scholars, and communities about how inherited narratives organize action, and how new futures become available in conversation.
Speaking and media