Csaba Mányai is Executive Director of the Hungarian Blueprint Institute. He has spent the past two decades exploring how we can adapt to and succeed in our fundamentally changing environment and redesign our systems to fit our new challenges. Earlier he worked with Hungarian and global companies, agencies, institutions and leaders on (re)designing marketing driven […]
Csaba Mányai is Executive Director of the Hungarian Blueprint Institute. He has spent the past two decades exploring how we can adapt to and succeed in our fundamentally changing environment and redesign our systems to fit our new challenges. Earlier he worked with Hungarian and global companies, agencies, institutions and leaders on (re)designing marketing driven business / institutional / political strategies, having also written a book on the subject, titled ‘Instead of Advertising’.
Building on that he researched complex systems and value innovation, using that knowledge to found TXD Impact Design Studio and help clients with designing breakthrough systemic innovations and impact strategies. He has also designed and curated many smaller and larger, local and international events, examples of which are the global Well Being Summit held in Bilbao in October 2021 or TEDxDanubia (and the corresponding social platform and movement), which he initiated, led and has been curator for since 2009, and in which context he has prepared over 200 high calibre speakers, both international and Hungarian.
Since 2017 he has also been working closely with Community Arts Lab (Porticus Foundation), building a global network and platform through the Community Arts Network, as strategic director and network/impact architect. He has also been part of and co-founder of the Systemic Climate Action Collaborative, an innovative initiative aiming to achieve a game changing impact on climate mitigation and adaptation at global scale through systemic action.
He has also spent 5 years researching a new hybrid organization model and theory on how to apply and activate systemic sense making and self-organizing agility into effective management and worked on implementing this at local and international companies and institutions.
Finally, has researched and worked on the systemic understanding of Hungary’s and Europe’s grand social, narrative and systemic challenges with the explicit goal of deep systemic and actionable innovation.