by Dave Cooper Author’s note: My thanks to Leen Gorissen for introducing The Change Leaders to the story of whales. …

By Sonja Robinson (Switzerland) “What are the skills today’s leaders need to know to thrive in the world of 2030 and 2040?” This was a question posed to Bill Gates during a speaking engagement at his high school alma mater in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates stressed the critical importance of…

By Syed Hussain Naqvi This is about a Gentleman who visited my house in Muscat, Oman 35 years ago. Then, I was a young, 28-year-old bank manager. This gentleman’s daughter and son-in-law were my neighbors and used to live next door to me and my bank branch. The daughter was…

By Thea Hazel-Stals This is a story of how a group of friends became excited about an emerging idea of making people more aware of the importance and vulnerability of water. In the Autumn of 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, an American, a Swiss-German, a Danish and…

By the Change Leaders (In this article: Mike Staresinic, Christine Dawood, Mark Clark, Sharon wood, Dave Cooper, Deborah Jones, Mariann Gyorke, Brian Evje, and Chantho Creze) Introduction Recently, a group within the U.S. Government shared a paper entitled: How Culture Change Happens: A Roadmap of What Works. With a bold title…

by Rebecca Hill I was recently invited to participate in an online discussion focusing on burnout in the time of COVID-19. As a burnout survivor, I am conscious of what’s going on in the world around us. Many are struggling with life, work, and relationships due to COVID-19. …

By Richard Torseth “Being in power makes me permanently suspicious of myself” Vaclav Havel, Speech 1991 Vaclav Havel has been a role model for me since the early 1990’s. I was enamored with the politically romantic story of a playwright becoming president of Czechoslovakia. I often wondered if he thought…

By Richard Torseth “Being in power makes me permanently suspicious of myself” Vaclav Havel, Speech 1991 Vaclav Havel has been a role model for me since the early 1990’s. I was enamored with the politically romantic story of a playwright becoming president of Czechoslovakia. I often wondered if he thought…

by Mike Staresinic An old joke in 2030 goes, “What does the change industry have to offer in a pandemic?” “Everything! Just a month after it was needed.” The emails broke in Hokusai-like waves.[2] Bombardments of leadership advice landed on shores lacking leadership. Change champions failed to staunch the austere…