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Who We Are
GGDI™ and 7GENZ™ are interconnected systems designed to support healthier, more equitable and sustainable communities for current and future generations.
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GGDI™ provides the broader systems framework, connecting environmental, health, social, educational and economic challenges so they can be understood and addressed together rather than in isolation.
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7GENZ™ is designed to help move this work into implementation by connecting financing, programs, partnerships, research and infrastructure with long-term community and environmental outcomes.
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Pathfinder Methodology™ provides the understanding methodology behind the work. It helps people examine complex systems, understand relationships and consequences, and identify where meaningful change can occur—without telling people what to think.
Together, GGDI™, 7GENZ™ and Pathfinder Methodology™ connect understanding, system design and implementation. The work is guided by long-term accountability and the principle that decisions should consider their effects on people, communities, the environment and future generations.
GGDI™ and 7GENZ™ are interconnected systems designed to support healthier, more equitable and sustainable communities for current and future generations.
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GGDI™ provides the broader systems framework, bringing environmental, health, social, educational and economic challenges together so they can be understood and addressed as interconnected issues rather than in isolation.
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7GENZ™ is designed to help move this work into implementation by connecting financing, programs, partnerships, research and infrastructure with long-term community and environmental outcomes.
Structure of the Economic Model of the G.G.D.I. and 7GENZ.
Governance
GGDI™ and 7GENZ™ are designed around shared accountability rather than decision-making being concentrated within a single organization, sector or authority.
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Oversight structures bring together representatives from the areas affected by and responsible for system decisions. Depending on the level and context, representation may include government, Indigenous and First Peoples, finance, industry, research and development, community organizations, youth, and other relevant partners.
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The purpose of oversight is not simply representation. Participants have a responsibility to consider how decisions affect people, communities, the environment and future generations, and to remain accountable for the decisions they help make.
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As GGDI™ and 7GENZ™ develop across different communities and countries, governance structures can be adapted to local circumstances while maintaining the core principles, safeguards and accountability requirements of the broader system.
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Pathfinder Methodology™ supports this process by providing a structured way to examine relationships, consequences, responsibilities and potential gaps before decisions are made.
“The ideas came in pieces, but I could see they were connected.
The challenge was understanding how they could work together.”
Founder
Samanthe Caren-McCarthy is the founder and developer of GGDI™, 7GENZ™ and Pathfinder Methodology™. Based in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, her work grew from decades of experience in healthcare, advocacy and systems thinking.
Raised in Dryden, Ontario, Sam grew up in a family involved in both insurance and land-based business. Those early experiences exposed her to very different parts of the economic and environmental system and helped shape the questions she would later explore through her work.
Sam has worked as a Registered Nurse for more than 25 years, with experience spanning medical care, oncology and chemotherapy, hospice and palliative care, diabetes education, pediatric care and community health. Her work also exposed her to the ways that health outcomes are influenced by systems far beyond healthcare itself—including access, environment, economics, education and the decisions made by institutions.
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Over time, those experiences led to a larger question: What would happen if we stopped addressing these challenges separately and instead examined how the systems behind them are connected?
That question became the foundation for GGDI™, 7GENZ™ and Pathfinder Methodology™—three interconnected bodies of work focused on understanding complex systems, designing more accountable structures and helping move ideas toward practical implementation.