Susanne Cook-Greuter

Susanne Cook-Greuter

Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter is internationally known as the leading expert in mature ego development and self-actualization. She is now retired after 45 years of research on the Sentence Completion Test (also known as the SCTi-MAP, which stands for Integral Sentence Completion Test and Maturity Assessment Profile for Professionals). She trained and certified SCTi-MAP scorers since the early 1980s. Since then, many former students have gone on to build their products/ services based on the SCTi-MAP foundations. For a list of approved service providers and certified associates, please visit Dr. Cook-Greuter's website. (https://www.cook-greuter.com/associates).

Susanne developed the Ego Development Theory (EDT), expanding on Loevinger's theory, which is now often referred to as the Leadership Maturity Framework (LMF), also known as Leadership Development Framework in other circles. Since the early 2000s, she also facilitated the LMF training programs along with other co-facilitators globally.

The impetus for applying the framework and the debriefing of the SCTi-MAP to coaching was first advocated by Bill Torbert at Boston College. Over the years, Susanne co-developed, and co-facilitated coach training and certification programs to certify coaches starting in 2000s. She collaborated with other consultants in bringing the developmental and integral perspectives into corporations and executive teams.

Her clients appreciate her for her dedication, creativity and joyful, subtle inquiry as well as for her profound knowledge of the adult development field.
Website: https://www.cook-greuter.com/

Website: https://www.cook-greuter.com

Nature as Teacher: Finding Beauty, Wisdom, and Self in Everything

Nature as Teacher: Finding Beauty, Wisdom, and Self in Everything

Susanne Cook-Greuter   January 30, 2023  
Adult psychology pioneer and ego development expert Susanne Cook-Greuter introduces us to her favorite wisdom teacher: Nature. Susanne explains how Integral Theory’s 3-2-1 Process can be practiced with elements in nature to gain greater insight into the teachings of nature—evolution, cycles of life and death, the transience of life, the beauty that is everywhere—and to experience oneness with all.
The Maturing Test: How Developed Is the World’s Most Advanced AI?

The Maturing Test: How Developed Is the World’s Most Advanced AI?

Susanne Cook-Greuter   December 19, 2022  
We just assessed GPT-3, the world’s most advanced sentence-generating Artificial Intelligence, using Susanne Cook Greuter's testing methodology. What did we learn, and what are the possible consequences for humanity? Watch to find out!
Quadrants as a Scanning and Mapping Device

Quadrants as a Scanning and Mapping Device

Susanne Cook-Greuter   February 13, 2022  
Defining the problem space has always been a central task of research and problem solving. In this article Susanne Cook-Greuter argues that the Integral or “all-quadrant” (AQ) approach provides a method to define a problem space that is at once elegant, infinitely adaptable, and panoramic. AQ stands for the first two letters of AQAL, the “all-quadrants, all-levels” aspects of Integral Theory created by Ken Wilber. I am choosing to represent AQ separately from the rest of the Integral Theory because it is independently powerful and useful as a means to explore and describe the human territory of experience.
Coronavirus: Making Sense of Our Sense-Making

Coronavirus: Making Sense of Our Sense-Making

Susanne Cook-Greuter   April 23, 2020  
Watch as Beena Sharma and Susanne Cook-Greuter offer a must-see presentation to help us understand the many healthy and unhealthy responses we are seeing to the coronavirus pandemic, all the way up and down the spiral of development.
Polarities in Human Development

Polarities in Human Development

Susanne Cook-Greuter   September 30, 2019  
Beena Sharma and Corey deVos explore the important relationship between polarities and adult development — and how polarity thinking not only helps accelerate our development toward integral stages of maturity, but also helps us to be more of ourselves, wherever we happen to be in our developmental trajectory.
The Stages of Leadership Maturity

The Stages of Leadership Maturity

Susanne Cook-Greuter   March 18, 2018  
Beena Sharma and Susanne Cook-Greuter offer a stunning overview of their Leadership Maturity Framework, which offers leaders, coaches, and change agents of all stripes a far more thorough understanding of human development and human potential, as well as a far more robust toolset to help others thrive at whatever stage of life they find themselves at.
On Being Human: A Reflection

On Being Human: A Reflection

Susanne Cook-Greuter   April 9, 2015  
In this deeply touching keynote address, Susanne Cook-Greuter offers a personal account on what truly matters in life, beyond one's stage of ego development.
Nature Mysticism: The Re-Enchantment of the World

Nature Mysticism: The Re-Enchantment of the World

Susanne Cook-Greuter   November 16, 2011  
Many of us already know Susanne Cook-Greuter as one of the Integral movement's most beloved scholars and authorities on mature adult development. But it's not all developmental structures and tiers and fulcrums for Susanne, as she also has an exquisite, life-long appreciation and reverence for the world of Nature. In this dialogue, Susanne and Ken have some very interesting things to say about the role of Nature as a spiritual teacher, and as a source of mystical state experiences that can irrevocably transform us from the inside out.
Telling the Story of Development

Telling the Story of Development

Susanne Cook-Greuter   May 21, 2007  
Susanne Cook-Greuter, one of the most important developmental psychologists working today, shares her path from a working-class family in Switzerland to academic excellence and innovation at Harvard University, exploring the higher stages of consciousness available to us all. She then shares her thoughts on the current state of academia and the culture at large, and why it‘s so important to encourage flourishing at every stage of development alongside the invitation to keep growing.
Introduction to Ego Development

Introduction to Ego Development

Susanne Cook-Greuter   March 5, 2007  
Susanne Cook-Greuter is an internationally recognized researcher in mature ego development and self-actualization. You may have noticed her name alongside Robert Kegan's, Clare Graves', and Jane Loevinger's in Ken's book, Integral Spirituality. Her sentence completion tests are sophisticated enough to tease out the subtle differences between Teal, Turquoise, Indigo, and Violet altitudes of development.