Seth Kahan is a Change Leadership specialist and award-winning expert blogger for Fast Company magazine where he writes, Leading Change (sethfast.com). His next book is Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out, to be published by Jossey-Bass, May 2010. The book and its techniques are chronicled on his blog, GettingChangeRight.com
"Leaders have to be excellent storylisteners - they need to find the time to listen and make the effort to understand how their people make sense of the world. It is only then that they can create the world anew world, bringing innovation to life."
Seth worked at the World Bank for 13 years. During his last two years he created large scale events to help shift the culture of the organization and worked directly with President Jim Wolfensohn. Since 2002 he has worked side-by-side with CEOs and Senior Managers of 100+ organizations including Peace Corps, Shell, Project Management Institute, International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association, and NASA.
"For years I worked across cultures, cut through silos, and bridged organizations. Each time it was the personal stories that were instrumental in building the bridges. Effective change is about creating a new story that includes the stories of each stakeholder."
Seth is an author and keynote speaker, delivering presentations to over 25,000 professionals every year. Much of his writing can be downloaded from his website, VisionaryLeadership.com. He is the founder of Seth Kahan’s CEO Leaders Forum, a community of CEOs working together to innovate through the current recession. You can reach him at Seth@VisionaryLeadership.com
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