Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal

Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal

4-5 May 2023
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Robin Ely

Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Robin Ely is Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power, and identity. Examples of her research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs.

For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active faculty affiliation at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and her Bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She is a member of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Robin Ely is Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power, and identity. Examples of her research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs.

For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active faculty affiliation at the Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons Graduate School of Management, in Boston. Prior to joining the HBS faculty, she taught at Columbia University and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Ely received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and her Bachelor’s degree from Smith College. She is a member of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Lakshmi Ramarajan

Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Lakshmi Ramarajan is the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.She teaches the second-year MBA course, Power and Influence, as well as the PhD seminar on Micro-topics in Organizational Behavior. She also teaches in various executive education programs. She previously taught the second-year MBA course, Authentic Leader Development and the first-year MBA course in Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD).
Lakshmi Ramarajan is the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.She teaches the second-year MBA course, Power and Influence, as well as the PhD seminar on Micro-topics in Organizational Behavior. She also teaches in various executive education programs. She previously taught the second-year MBA course, Authentic Leader Development and the first-year MBA course in Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD).

Rae Johnson

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT is a scholar/activist whose research centers on the intersections between embodiment and social justice. Chair of the Somatic Studies doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and author of several books – including the recently published Embodied Social Justice – Rae teaches internationally on embodied microaggressions and somatic research methods.

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT is a scholar/activist whose research centers on the intersections between embodiment and social justice. Chair of the Somatic Studies doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute and author of several books – including the recently published Embodied Social Justice – Rae teaches internationally on embodied microaggressions and somatic research methods.

Tina Opie

Tina Opie is an Assistant Professor in the Management Division at Babson College, teaching organizational behavior courses to undergraduates, MBA students and executives. Professor Opie obtained her Ph.D. in Management (with a concentration in organizational behavior) in May 2010 from New York University’s Stern School of Business. In 1999, she obtained her MBA from the Darden School of Business.

Professor Opie’s research focuses primarily on how organizations can create workplace cultures that successfully leverage individual difference and convey respect for individual contributions, particularly from members of historically marginalized groups.

Tina Opie is an Assistant Professor in the Management Division at Babson College, teaching organizational behavior courses to undergraduates, MBA students and executives. Professor Opie obtained her Ph.D. in Management (with a concentration in organizational behavior) in May 2010 from New York University’s Stern School of Business. In 1999, she obtained her MBA from the Darden School of Business.

Professor Opie’s research focuses primarily on how organizations can create workplace cultures that successfully leverage individual difference and convey respect for individual contributions, particularly from members of historically marginalized groups.

Beth Livingston

Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa
Dr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center of Excellence, and the faculty director of the Dore-Tippie Women's Leadership program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and her MBA from the University of Kentucky, and spent 8 years at Cornell University before moving to the Midwest. Her research has been highlighted in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Business Review, and she has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, HNI/Allsteel, and Hollaback! (now Right to Be) and is the co-author of the book Shared Sisterhood (with Dr. Tina Opie), published by Harvard Business Review Press.
Dr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center of Excellence, and the faculty director of the Dore-Tippie Women's Leadership program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and her MBA from the University of Kentucky, and spent 8 years at Cornell University before moving to the Midwest. Her research has been highlighted in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Business Review, and she has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, HNI/Allsteel, and Hollaback! (now Right to Be) and is the co-author of the book Shared Sisterhood (with Dr. Tina Opie), published by Harvard Business Review Press.

Stephanie Creary

Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie J. Creary, PhD is assistant professor of management and faculty fellow of the Coalition for Equity and Opportunity (CEO) at The Wharton School. She is also a visiting faculty fellow in the inaugural cohort of the Harvard Business School Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society and has been selected for the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2023. Her research examines allyship and relationships across differences, navigating identity dynamics, and DEI-supportive practices in the workplace. At Wharton, she has developed and currently teaches the undergraduate and MBA "Leading Diversity in Organizations" courses for which she has been awarded the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award five times. She has leaned on the insights she has gained from her research and teaching to advise organizational leaders, board directors, investors, and business school faculty on effective strategies for cultivating DEI in organizations.
Stephanie J. Creary, PhD is assistant professor of management and faculty fellow of the Coalition for Equity and Opportunity (CEO) at The Wharton School. She is also a visiting faculty fellow in the inaugural cohort of the Harvard Business School Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society and has been selected for the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2023. Her research examines allyship and relationships across differences, navigating identity dynamics, and DEI-supportive practices in the workplace. At Wharton, she has developed and currently teaches the undergraduate and MBA "Leading Diversity in Organizations" courses for which she has been awarded the Wharton Teaching Excellence Award five times. She has leaned on the insights she has gained from her research and teaching to advise organizational leaders, board directors, investors, and business school faculty on effective strategies for cultivating DEI in organizations.

Samaz Mobasseri

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Boston University

Sanaz Mobasseri is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and the Faculty Lead for the Antiracist Tech Initiative at the Center for Antiracist Research. Broadly, Mobasseri’s research investigates how organizational and social network processes shape race and gender differences at work by examining the roles of culture, cognition, and emotion in organizations using field experimental, longitudinal, and computational research methodologies.

Mobasseri completed her PhD in the Management of Organizations Department at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Prior to that, she worked in finance in the U.S. and U.K. Mobasseri also holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Sanaz Mobasseri is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and the Faculty Lead for the Antiracist Tech Initiative at the Center for Antiracist Research. Broadly, Mobasseri’s research investigates how organizational and social network processes shape race and gender differences at work by examining the roles of culture, cognition, and emotion in organizations using field experimental, longitudinal, and computational research methodologies.

Mobasseri completed her PhD in the Management of Organizations Department at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Prior to that, she worked in finance in the U.S. and U.K. Mobasseri also holds a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Caroline Shenaz Hossein

Associate Professor of Global Development, University of Toronto Scarborough
Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair Tier 2 of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy and Associate Professor of Global Development at UTSC and she is cross-appointed to the graduate programme of Political Science, University of Toronto. Hossein is the interim-Director of the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods at the University of Toronto and founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective. Hossein’s research navigates solidarity economies–a movement started in the Global South–which prioritizes social profitability over financial gain. She also holds an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2018-2026) and previously the IDG SSHRC (2017-2020). Hossein is a board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, advisor to Oxford University Press, editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’. Hossein is the author of multi-award winning book ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016), co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ (2023) both by Oxford University Press. Her forthcoming books are ‘Africana Feminist Economics’ by Cambridge University Press and ‘The Banker Ladies’ by the University of Toronto Press. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for more than 16 years in a number of global organizations in economic development. Follow The DISE Collective at www.Africanaeconomics.com and Twitter @carolinehossein
Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair Tier 2 of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy and Associate Professor of Global Development at UTSC and she is cross-appointed to the graduate programme of Political Science, University of Toronto. Hossein is the interim-Director of the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods at the University of Toronto and founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective. Hossein’s research navigates solidarity economies–a movement started in the Global South–which prioritizes social profitability over financial gain. She also holds an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2018-2026) and previously the IDG SSHRC (2017-2020). Hossein is a board member to the International Association of Feminist Economics, advisor to Oxford University Press, editorial board member to the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’. Hossein is the author of multi-award winning book ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016), co-author of ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); editor of ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018), co-editor of ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ (2023) both by Oxford University Press. Her forthcoming books are ‘Africana Feminist Economics’ by Cambridge University Press and ‘The Banker Ladies’ by the University of Toronto Press. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked for more than 16 years in a number of global organizations in economic development. Follow The DISE Collective at www.Africanaeconomics.com and Twitter @carolinehossein

Lua Kamál Yuille

Professor of Law and Business, Northeastern University School of Law
Lua Kamál Yuille serves on the faculties of Northeastern University’s law school and D’Amore-McKim School of Business. She is a recognized praxivist, which is a philosophy that involves using her theoretical scholarship to inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono immigration litigation practitioner — provides a strong foundation for her engaged scholarship on a wide range of questions. Her current interdisciplinary work draws into conversation property law, heterodox economics, business law, critical pedagogy and group identity. She is fluent in Spanish and Italian and credits her most enduring education to the varied experiences she has had as a praxivist doing service all over the world.
Lua Kamál Yuille serves on the faculties of Northeastern University’s law school and D’Amore-McKim School of Business. She is a recognized praxivist, which is a philosophy that involves using her theoretical scholarship to inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono immigration litigation practitioner — provides a strong foundation for her engaged scholarship on a wide range of questions. Her current interdisciplinary work draws into conversation property law, heterodox economics, business law, critical pedagogy and group identity. She is fluent in Spanish and Italian and credits her most enduring education to the varied experiences she has had as a praxivist doing service all over the world.

Rosabeth Moth Kanter

Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations, governments, and start-up ventures. She co-founded the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative, guiding its planning from 2005 to its launch in 2008 and serving as Founding Chair and Director from 2008-2018 as it became a growing international model for a new stage of higher education preparing successful top leaders to apply their skills to national and global challenges. Author or co-author of 20 books, her latest book is Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations, governments, and start-up ventures. She co-founded the Harvard University-wide Advanced Leadership Initiative, guiding its planning from 2005 to its launch in 2008 and serving as Founding Chair and Director from 2008-2018 as it became a growing international model for a new stage of higher education preparing successful top leaders to apply their skills to national and global challenges. Author or co-author of 20 books, her latest book is Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time.

Myisha Cherry

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside
Myisha Cherry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (Rowman & Littlefield). Her latest book is The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press. And after a 10–way auction, “The Failures of Forgiveness,” will be released by Princeton University Press in September 2023. Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day.
Myisha Cherry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the Director of the Emotion and Society Lab. Her research is primarily concerned with the role of emotions and attitudes in public life. Cherry’s books include UnMuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Owen Flanagan, The Moral Psychology of Anger (Rowman & Littlefield). Her latest book is The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to Anti-racist Struggle published by Oxford University Press. And after a 10–way auction, “The Failures of Forgiveness,” will be released by Princeton University Press in September 2023. Her work on emotions and race has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Huffington Post, WomanKind, and New Philosopher Magazine. Cherry is also the host of the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day.

Loretta J. Ross

Associate Professor of the Study of Women & Gender, Smith College

Loretta J. Ross is a Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and Calling In the Call Out culture. Loretta also is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellow, Class of 2022, for her work as an advocate of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights.

Loretta was the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice. Loretta was National Co-Director of April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW), and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Loretta was the third Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center.

Loretta J. Ross is a Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and Calling In the Call Out culture. Loretta also is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellow, Class of 2022, for her work as an advocate of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights.

Loretta was the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice. Loretta was National Co-Director of April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW), and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Loretta was the third Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center.

Lama Rod Owens

Author, Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.

A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets.

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. An international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.

A leading voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers with over 11 years of experience, Lama Rod activates the intersections of his identity to create a platform that’s very natural, engaging, and inclusive. Applauded for his mastery in balancing weighty topics with a sense of lightness, the Queen has been featured by various national and international news outlets.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Executive Director, Equity Labs
Author, The Trauma of Caste

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, technologist, and theorist. Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, which she co-founded. Equality Labs is the largest Dalit civil rights organization working to empower caste-oppressed people in the US and globally. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized South Asian Americans towards dismantling eons-long systems of oppression, with the goal of ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. Thenmozhi previously co-founded Third World Majority, an international media training organization and collective that supported people from disenfranchised groups in telling their own stories, in their own way.

Her intersectional, cross-pollinating work—research, education, art, activism, and digital security—helps to create a more generous, global, expansive, and inclusive definition of South Asian identity, along with safe spaces from which to honor the stories of these communities. Thenmozhi’s work has been recognized by the U.S. Congress, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Producers Guild of America Diversity Program, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Sorbonne, Source Magazine, Utne Reader, The National Center for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is a frequent contributor on issues related to South Asia, caste, gender, and racial Equity, as well interfaith issues and peace building, and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Guardian, ABC, and NBC news. She was also an inaugural fellow of the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist, Atlantic Foundation for Racial Equity, and is a current fellow at Stanford Center for South Asian Studies. You can order her new book The Trauma of Caste from North Atlantic Books to learn more about her work around caste equity, abolition, and healing.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit American artist, community organizer, technologist, and theorist. Currently, Thenmozhi is the Executive Director of Equality Labs, which she co-founded. Equality Labs is the largest Dalit civil rights organization working to empower caste-oppressed people in the US and globally. Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized South Asian Americans towards dismantling eons-long systems of oppression, with the goal of ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. Thenmozhi previously co-founded Third World Majority, an international media training organization and collective that supported people from disenfranchised groups in telling their own stories, in their own way.

Her intersectional, cross-pollinating work—research, education, art, activism, and digital security—helps to create a more generous, global, expansive, and inclusive definition of South Asian identity, along with safe spaces from which to honor the stories of these communities. Thenmozhi’s work has been recognized by the U.S. Congress, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, The Producers Guild of America Diversity Program, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Sorbonne, Source Magazine, Utne Reader, The National Center for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is a frequent contributor on issues related to South Asia, caste, gender, and racial Equity, as well interfaith issues and peace building, and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Guardian, ABC, and NBC news. She was also an inaugural fellow of the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist, Atlantic Foundation for Racial Equity, and is a current fellow at Stanford Center for South Asian Studies. You can order her new book The Trauma of Caste from North Atlantic Books to learn more about her work around caste equity, abolition, and healing.

Lisa Lahey

Lecturer on Education
Lisa Lahey is co-director of Minds At Work, a coaching and consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. An expert in adult development and an experienced executive coach and educator, Lisa works with leaders and leadership teams in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. With a doctorate from Harvard University in developmental psychology, she combines her expertise of individual development with a deep knowledge of organizational psychology and teamwork to design and teach leadership curriculum. For the past several years, she has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach to leaders in the private and public sectors worldwide, and currently leads the Personal Mastery program for aspiring public school superintendents at Harvard. Lahey and long-time collaborator Robert Kegan are credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic, the "immunity to change," which impedes personal and organizational transformation. Her work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and behaviors. This work is now being used by executives, senior teams and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. Her seminal books, How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work (2001), and Immunity to Change (2009) have been published in over a dozen languages. Her latest book, An Everyone Culture, published by the Harvard Business Press, will be out this spring, 2016.
Lisa Lahey is co-director of Minds At Work, a coaching and consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and on the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. An expert in adult development and an experienced executive coach and educator, Lisa works with leaders and leadership teams in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. With a doctorate from Harvard University in developmental psychology, she combines her expertise of individual development with a deep knowledge of organizational psychology and teamwork to design and teach leadership curriculum. For the past several years, she has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach to leaders in the private and public sectors worldwide, and currently leads the Personal Mastery program for aspiring public school superintendents at Harvard. Lahey and long-time collaborator Robert Kegan are credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic, the "immunity to change," which impedes personal and organizational transformation. Her work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and behaviors. This work is now being used by executives, senior teams and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia. Her seminal books, How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work (2001), and Immunity to Change (2009) have been published in over a dozen languages. Her latest book, An Everyone Culture, published by the Harvard Business Press, will be out this spring, 2016.
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