Leading change

Research offers a pathway to understand and innovate new ways to tackle the complex challenges we face as a global community. Our research helps individuals and communities imagine new ways to lead change, new mindsets to approach complex issues and new strategies to align practice with action. Through partnership, we prepare organizations and communities to navigate change and the complexities of working together toward a better world.

Highlights of current work

Our approach to leading change is to study and practice leadership through community-engaged practices and processes. Current scholarship includes advancing understanding of leadership development within high-tech industry, developing capacity to tackle global food system challenges and collaborating with globally-recognized leaders to address real issues with tangible strategies for moving forward.

Our research statement

Our study of leadership aims to develop the capacity of people and organizations able to navigate complexity and realize a more just, secure and prosperous world. We partner with individuals, organizations and communities that are leading change at the intersection of theory and practice.