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Becoming an agent of transformational change

Practical, experience-based approaches to lead genuinely transformational change.

What we will cover

Many impacts are incremental, and few promises of transformational change actually happen in reality. This webinar will give you new ways of thinking and practical, experience-based approaches to lead and support genuinely transformational change. Starting from the inside out, it considers how to build future consciousness, discusses common patterns of transformation, and considers how to sustain transformational intent in the face of opposition, while developing the capabilities, leadership practices, and people support needed when current ways of working no longer deliver results.

How the session runs

  • 0:00Welcome and why this mattersA quick orientation and the one idea to hold onto for the hour.
  • 0:45Live Q&ABring your questions. We answer as many as we can before we close.

Who is leading it

Prof. Ioan Fazey
Guest speaker
Prof. Ioan Fazey
Professor, University of York

Ioan is a Professor in Social Dimensions of Environment and Change in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. He has a background in both the sciences and social sciences and with a passion on learning how we can support beneficial transformations and overcome a human-nature separation. He is known internationally for his work on resilience, transformation, regenerative systems, and ecocentric ways of being and doing. Ioan has over 85 highly regarded peer reviewed research publications with projects that have been conducted on five continents working at all levels, from the Governor of Louisiana and his senior staff to illiterate community leaders in Bangladesh and in remote areas of the South Pacific. Many of his projects have involved facilitating, coaching and training groups, leaders and organisations to work through complexity and strategically support systemic change with outcomes that go well beyond just improving a status quo. He is a co-founder of TransformationsCommunity.org that helps connect and support researchers and practitioners working at the interface of systemic and transformational change. Ioan is also an experienced shamanic

Prof. Mark Reed
Lead facilitator
Prof. Mark Reed
Author, The Research Impact Handbook

A globally cited, transdisciplinary researcher on Clarivate's Highly Cited list and author of four books on research impact, productivity and influencing policy.

10,000+
researchers trained
250+
publications

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