About Us

Founder: Marilyn Hamilton PhD CGA CSP

Author of Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive. Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is the Founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. and TDG Holdings Inc.. Dr. Hamilton leads a practice community using Integral City frameworks and practical tools to support multi-stakeholder groups in transforming their whole city and eco-region into habitats that are as sustainable and resilient for humans as the beehive is for bees. Her Integral City approach incubates transformation strategies for City Staff, Civic Leaders, Civil Society, Entrepreneurs and Community Participants that integrate their contributions with Purpose, Place, Priorities, People and Planet.

As Thought Leader and Project Leader Marilyn calls herself a "Meshworker". She leads teams to develop integrated resilience strategies that optimize official city plans and sustainability goals. She aligns multiple capacities with Environmental, Economic, Social and Cultural Capitals. She energizes Community Engagement, focuses Decision Making and designs Dashboards for Monitoring City Performance and Managing Risk.

Experienced in multiple international sectors Dr. Hamilton is: Charter Accredited Member Canadian Sustainability Professionals; Designer of Sustainable Community Development Graduate Certificate, Royal Roads U; Jury Member of Globe Awards for Sustainable Cities; Researcher with Canada Chair, Sustainable Community Development; Charter Member of Integral Institute ; Founder, Center for Human Emergence Canada; Trainer of Trainers for Spiral Dynamics integral; Faculty/Guest Lecturer at Royal Roads U, University of Oslo, University of Wageningen, UBC, SFU, U of Alberta, JF Kennedy U, California Institute of Integral Studies, The Banff Centre, Adizes Graduate School.

Dr. Hamilton has supervised the successful completion of over 50 Masters and Doctoral theses. She has pioneered mapping technologies for City Values (with data collection in four languages), developed online prototypes of Vital Signs Monitors of City Wellbeing and co-developed an Imagine City foresight process. Marilyn is Alumna of the Foundation for Community Encouragement and Past-CEO/Chair of Consulting Resource Group International Publishers. She has authored and co-authored learning and leadership assessments, several books on leadership and wellness, and a discovery learning game. 

Marilyn has published peer reviewed articles promoting integral meta-mapping as a common language for urban change, spirituality in the city and the complexity of community. She proposes that the four quadrants and eight levels of the Integral framework reveal the emergence of capacity at multiple levels of scale and supports the need to balance subjective/intersubjective capacities with objective/interobjective capacities. She has used these arguments to address issues of Homelessness, Bio-Security (esp. Avian Flu), Urban Risk and Resilience and Vital Signs Monitors. (You can read about her long term Meshworking research projects here,)

Marilyn has served numerous NFP and professional associations: from All Quadrants, many levels, in executive and leadership positions, including: President, Abbotsford Community Foundation; Chair, Imagine Abbotsford; Director of the Abbotsford Airport Authority; VP of Volunteers for the 1995 Western Canada Summer Games; Executive Director-at-Large of the BC Chamber of Commerce; President of the Abbotsford-Matsqui Chamber of Commerce; Co-Chair of the Abbotsford-Matsqui Healthy Community Project; and Co-Chair of the University College of the Fraser Valley's Future Now Funding Campaign.

Dr. Hamilton is a graduate of University of Toronto (BA, English; Diploma in Translation), a Certified General Accountant and Canadian Sustainability Professional. She completed her Ph.D. (Administration and Management) in 1999, applying All Quadrant All Levels constructs within an integral methodology, to research learning and leadership in self-organizing online community systems (click to access her dissertation here )

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