Team Member Category: Keynote Speaker

Nithya Shanti is an internationally renowned spiritual guide, mindfulness expert, and leadership consultant who specializes in helping individuals and organizations foster deeper connections. With his unique blend of timeless teachings, experiential learning, and real-world application, Nithya empowers people to create meaningful relationships and achieve personal and professional success.

As a former Buddhist monk with a background in corporate leadership, Nithya brings a wealth of wisdom and experience to his work. He is dedicated to guiding others on their journey toward self-discovery, authentic connection, and a fulfilling life. He has supported leaders and teams in hundreds of global organizations discover clarity and happiness in the midst of their demanding roles.

Nithya’s Three Approaches to Learning:

Class: Sharing principles, practices and knowledge

Lab: Experimentation, application and facilitation

Playground: Real-life experiences and realtime learnings

 

 

Talks

Nithya Shanti offers a range of customizable keynote presentations and workshops tailored to diverse audiences in various locations around the world. His talks cover a wide range of topics, including personal growth, mindfulness, decision making and human connection.

 

Self-Connection Talks

 

The Journey Within: Discovering Your Authentic Self

In this transformative talk, Nithya guides participants on a journey of reflection and self-discovery, helping them to uncover their true nature and cultivate a deep sense of inner peace. By combining ancient wisdom with modern insights, this session empowers individuals to live in alignment with their authentic selves and experience greater fulfillment in all aspects of life.

 

From Mindfulness to Kindfulness

This presentation explores the power of mindfulness in promoting well-being, reducing stress, and enhancing personal and professional effectiveness. Nithya shares practical techniques for integrating mindfulness into daily routines, helping participants develop greater self-awareness and presence in the moment. Nithya emphasizes the importance of self empathy and compassion for the transformational shift from mind-full to heart-full and kind-full.

 

Connection with Others Talks

 

Building Bridges: Cultivating Connection in Personal and Professional Relationships

In this engaging session, Nithya shares insights and practices for fostering meaningful connections in both personal and professional relationships. By emphasizing empathy, active listening, and authentic communication, participants learn to build trust, strengthen bonds, and create a positive impact in their interactions with others. The learnings apply equally to our personal and professional relationships. This is an opportunity to level up our relational skills.

 

The Heart of Leadership: Compassion and Connection in the Workplace

This talk focuses on the role of compassion and connection in effective leadership, exploring how these qualities can enhance team performance, workplace satisfaction, and overall business success. There is emphasis on learning how to access clarity and intuition in decision making. Nithya provides actionable strategies for leaders to develop these skills and create a supportive, collaborative work environment.

 

Connection with Life Talks

 

Embracing the Present: Living Beyond Concepts and Personal Agendas

In this thought-provoking session, Nithya invites participants to explore the concept of effortlessly living in the present moment, free from the constraints of personal agendas and limiting beliefs. By embracing this approach, individuals can experience a deeper connection with life and unlock their full potential. The effect of this session is a profound unburdening from trying to control all outcomes by trusting and aligning with the intelligence of life.

 

The Art of Joyful Living: Connecting with the Source of Happiness

In this uplifting talk, Nithya shares his insights on the true source of happiness and how to cultivate a joyful, playful and connected life. Drawing from ancient wisdom and contemporary psychology, he offers practical tools and techniques for developing greater resilience, gratitude, and contentment. Participants often share the learnings with their family and children and report a positive shift in the personal lives as well.

 

Workshops and Experiential Learning

In addition to his keynote presentations, Nithya Shanti also offers workshops, leadership retreats and experiential learning sessions that provide participants with hands-on opportunities to explore and deepen their understanding of the topics covered in his talks. These interactive programs are designed to create lasting change and personal growth.

 

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Lisa, Ed.D., is Axialent’s advisor in personal and organizational transformation. Together with long-time collaborator Robert Kegan, Ph.D., she is credited with a breakthrough discovery of a hidden dynamic, the “immunity to change,” which impedes transformation.

For more than 20 years, Lisa and Robert have studied why people struggle to make the changes that would significantly improve their lives and repeatedly fail at it: from losing 10 pounds to becoming better leaders, through eating healthier food or quitting a bad habit. By means of a step-by-step, deep soul-searching methodology, Lisa and Robert guide people to close the gap between their good intentions and their behaviors.

Executives, senior teams and individuals are now using this work in business, governmental and educational organizations in the United States, Europe and Asia. It has also recently expanded its reach through the Immunity to Change MOOC, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s first MOOC to be taken by any individual through the EdX online platform.

Lisa and Robert recently received the Gislason Award for exceptional contributions to organizational leadership, joining past recipients Warren Bennis, Peter Senge and Edgar Schein. In 2013, they received the Vision of Excellence Award from Harvard’s Institute of Coaching.

For the past several years, Lisa has served as a trusted advisor and executive coach to leaders in the private and public sectors worldwide. A passionate pianist and hiker, Lisa lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.

 

Talks

 

Lisa is regularly asked to present her work throughout the world, most recently in Australia, China, Kazakhstan and New Zealand. Her seminal books, “How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work” (2001) and “Immunity to Change” (2009) have been published in many languages. Lisa has been on the faculty of the World Economic Forum’s Davos Conference and had her work featured in the Harvard Business Review; The New York Times Sunday business section; O, The Oprah Magazine and Fast Company.

 

1 – Have You Found What Might Be Holding You Back?

Conversation with Brené Brown on her “Dare to Lead” podcast:

Part one

Part Two

 

2 –Applying Immunity to Change to helping people and organizations in their efforts to genuinely address DEIB.

Watch content here.

 

3 –Leading with Perseverance

 

More content:

 

Can you identify an adaptive challenge?

 

How is technology altering the way businesses are being conducted?

 

Immunity to change

 

Her latest book, An Everyone Culture (Harvard Business Press, 2016) was named “Best Management and Workplace Culture Book of 2016” by 800-CEO-READ. Immunity to Change and An Everyone Culture recently earned a place on Harvard Business Press Ideas with Impact List, joining just 19 other titles.

Dr. Rajendra S. Sisodia is Axialent’s advisor in Conscious Capitalism. Author of “Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose,” co-founder and co-Chairman of the Conscious Capitalism Institute, Raj has devoted his work to the dissemination of the conscious capitalism principles and philosophy through his academic, writing, speaking and consulting endeavors. He is now focused on expanding the movement globally with chapters in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Singapore and India.

In 2003, he was named to the “Guru Gallery” by the Chartered Institute of Marketing and was described as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers”. Four years later he received the “Excellence in Scholarship” award and in 2008 the “Innovation in Teaching” award from Bentley University. He was also named one of ten “Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International, and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011.

As a leading figure in the Conscious Capitalism movement, Raj is an expert in corporate strategy and leadership, globalization, stakeholder management, marketing strategy, marketing ethics, relationship marketing and marketing productivity.

He has consulted with and taught executive programs for numerous companies, including AT&T, Nokia, LG, DPDHL, POSCO, Siemens, Sprint, MCI, Volvo, IBM, Ernst & Young, Walmart, McDonald’s and Southern California Edison. He has led programs in North and South America, Europe, and Asia and is also a frequent and well-admired keynote speaker. Raj held over 500 presentations on Conscious Capitalism at leading universities, corporations and other organizations around the world. He was Trustee Professor of Marketing and founding director of the Center for Marketing Technology at Bentley University and is now F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business and Whole Foods Market Research Scholar in Conscious Capitalism at Babson College.

Raj has an MBA in marketing from the Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Bombay. He also holds a Ph.D. in marketing and business policy from Columbia University. He has published seven books and over 100 articles in prestigious business journals. His book “Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose” was named as named one of the best business books of 2007 and has been translated into seven languages. In 2012 he published the book “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” (with John Mackey, founder & CEO of Whole Foods Market), a New York Times bestseller.

He lives in Lexington, MA. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, sports and music.

 

 

Talks

1 – Conscious Capitalism

Capitalism has been extraordinarily successful over the past two centuries at raising human living standards, life expectancy and life satisfaction. But the old way is not working any more. The world has changed so much and people have evolved so rapidly that we need to bring a higher level of consciousness to the world of business. When we do so, the results can be astonishing.

 

 

2 – Healing Organizations

In this talk, Raj discusses the benefits that can be derived when organizations put people first.

 

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Fran Cherny is a business leader, inspirational speaker, and advisor to executives driving cultural transformation processes.

Fran is recognized in the industry for his ability to facilitate change processes that last and produce real business results. His methodology is based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations and has proven eective. He generates sustainable transformations, and helps leaders and teams to align business strategy with their values and practices. His proven methodology is based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations.

Born in Buenos Aires and currently based in Barcelona.

 

Experience

For over 15 years and in more than 20 countries, Fran has supported leading multinationals — such as Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Facebook, and AXA — through cultural transformation projects, conferences, direct coaching to executives, and facilitation of leadership teams.

Fran was responsible for opening Axialent’s European market. As CEO (2012-2017), he led global expansion eorts, developed new markets, and expanded the Axialent Advisory board bringing the most relevant content clients needed. He also led the recruitment and development of hundreds of consultants and inspired many others through his speaking engagements.

 

Talks

CONFERENCES FOR LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS WANTING CHANGE TO HAPPEN

 

1 – Why is it so hard to change?

This talk stems from one of the main reflections of the book, which has to do with the diculties we may encounter when undertaking any change, and how we can transform ourselves into someone capable of successfully changing in all our areas of action – and do it sustainably.

 

2 – Creating the culture we want.

Drawing on his extensive experience as a consultant and as an expert in cultural transformations of multinational companies in various industries, Fran reviews the key points to consider when embarking on this type of process and invites us to take action to make it possible.

 

3 – Leading change.

In this talk, Fran invites us to look at ourselves as people capable of inspiring others to constantly change and evolve. We all occupy places of leadership in dierent areas of our lives. From that thesis, he explains what the fundamental beliefs and values are to make the changes we want happen and how to invite others to be part of that same process.

 

Through Fran I learned the power of starting with ‘what I can do better’, and how this can transform a culture and lead to transformational growth.
Guy Persaud
President of Procter & Gamble Co New Business

Shauna has presented her research to the King of Thailand, the Danish government, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit, and the World Council for Psychotherapy, as well as to Fortune 100 Companies including Google, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn and Morgan Stanley. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah, Mashable, Wired, USA Today, Dr. Oz, the Huffington Post, and the American Psychologist. Shauna is a summa cum laude graduate of Duke University and a Fellow of the Mind and LifeInstitute, co-founded by the Dalai Lama.

Dr. Shapiro offers numerous speaking topics including The Traits of Great Leaders and Building a Compassionate Corporate Culture and others listed below. Keynote presentations can also be customized across a wide range of topics including Mental Health, Mindfulness, Neuroplasticity, and Well-Being. Her TEDx Talk, What You Practice Grows Stronger, has been viewed 3 million times.

 

Talks

Dr. Shauna Shapiro offers numerous speaking topics and Keynote presentations across a wide range of topics including Leadership, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Neuroplasticity, and Well-Being.

1 – The power of mindfulness: what you practice grows stronger

In this presentation, Dr. Shauna Shapiro – an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness – teaches you powerful practices to live a happier, healthier more meaningful life. She shares recent discoveries in neuroscience and offers practical tools to re-architect the structure of your brain to decrease stress, increase clarity and strengthen your sense of belonging and purpose. You will learn how the practice of mindfulness deactivates the centers of the brain responsible for emotional reactivity, and helps engage the rational part of your brain so you can make choices aligned with your deepest values. Dr. Shapiro offers a science-based roadmap for how to enhance personal and professional well-being, while building better lives and communities.

 

2 – Hardwiring happiness: positive brains = better health + performance

The negativity bias, our tendency to look for what’s wrong and to gloss over or entirely miss the good, is hardwired in us. It made sense evolutionarily. This was how we survived. Yet this imbalance leads to chronic stress, anxiety and depression. What over a decade of research shows is that training your brain to be positive leads to greater success at work, better physical health and improved mental well-being. To overcome  earned helplessness, we must create “wins” for our brain by training ourselves to be rational optimists who focus on what is working. Dr. Shapiro explains what positive psychology is, how much we can change, and practical applications and strategies for Hardwiring Happiness even in the midst of change and challenge.

 

3 – Compassionate leadership

Great leaders encourage collaboration, promote inclusion, and make their employees feel seen and heard. Their greatest tool? COMPASSION. Compassion isn’t a static trait that people either have or don’t have—we all have the ability to grow our compassion intentionally  Through practice. A clinical psychologist and renown expert in compassion, Dr. Shapiro uses her scientific and clinical expertise to give us concrete strategies for compassionate leadership. She shows us how to lead teams that are connected, collaborative, creative, and ultimately more successful. This presentation illuminates the science behind why kindness and compassion are not signs of weakness but sources of strength.

 

4 – The power of mindfulness in education

Our schools and communities are responsible for preparing students to succeed in and contribute to an increasingly challenging world. We are seeing the impact of rising stress, emotional dysregulation, and attention deficit, and social isolation on the health and wellbeing of our young people. All of us, students, teachers and parents, need tools to help navigate these difficult times. In this presentation, Dr. Shauna Shapiro, a leading expert in mindfulness and compassion, teaches practices to rewire the brain for greater clarity, contentment and calm. She presents a science-based roadmap to reduce emotional reactivity, manage stress, enhance self-compassion and increase the ability to make healthy life choices. Evidence from thousands of scientific studies shows mindfulness practice is directly correlated to decreased stress, increased test scores, stronger motivation, and a more connected, supportive community. Dr. Shapiro integrates cutting-edge neuroscience, interactive experiential practices, and inspiring stories to show how simple changes to our mindset and habits can bring about significant transformation in our brains and in our lives.

 

5 – The science of self-compassion

Our society teaches us that self-compassion is the enemy of productivity; that to be kind to ourselves is to invite complacency. In fact, the opposite is true. Self-compassion is proven to increase motivation and productivity, boost resilience, and improve mental health. Dr. Shauna Shapiro, a pioneer in the empirical study of self-compassion, shows us why we need self-compassion more than ever, and teaches us simple, yet powerful practices to cultivate it. She provides step-by-step guidance for tapping your inner resources and transforming the way you work and live.

 

6 – The power of attention

We’re in a focus crisis: we can’t pay attention, and it’s affecting our power to innovate and think deeply. In fact, research from Harvard shows the mind wanders on average 47% of the time. That means we are missing about half of our life. We risk losing our ability to finish long-term projects and connect with people around us, as well as losing contact with our deepest values and goals. Dr. Shauna Shapiro offers a science-based roadmap for reclaiming the power of attention and recovering our minds. She’ll teach you how to reverse exhaustion, get back your flow states, and forge real relationships at work and in your personal life. When we tap into that stillness, our minds will be sharpened to do anything we set them to, and we’ll have workplaces and organizations that are ready to embrace a focused, productive, creative mindset and achieve their goals.

Oseas Ramírez is a business leader, innovation and well-being speaker, and executive focused on fusing technology, psychology, and innovation to drive businesses towards a better world through cultural transformation processes.

As CEO of Axialent Global, an international consulting firm pioneering conscious change in organizations, Oseas leads a team of world-renowned experts seeking to facilitate change through processes that produce real business results based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations.

Oseas worked for Cisco Systems HQ for six years. He led three major corporate-wide efforts: First, he was in charge of the development of the company’s top 2% talent worldwide, focusing on Senior Managers. Second, while leading this initiative, he cofounded and internally spun-o Startup//Cisco, a companywide movement that trains employees on how to adopt startup innovation best practices to reinvigorate Cisco’s startup DNA.

Finally, he was responsible for leading the design and implementation of Cisco’s worldwide network of Innovation Centers’ co- innovation strategy, engaging key customers across the world. During this final phase he also traveled the world evangelizing organizations on Cisco’s innovation strategy.

Oseas has founded four Mexico-based startups, with the most successful being Weknow (we- know.net), the leading LatAm e-learning solutions/services provider, and (b) ID2R (Ideas To Results – id2r.co), an innovation orchestration firm specialized in medium and large organizations seeking to establish or accelerate their innovation capabilities, acquired by Axialent.

 

Talks

Ready-to-go customizable keynote presentations and sessions with a proven track record with corporate audiences in San Francisco, London, New York, Singapore, and Sao Paulo, among others.

 

Well-being and Mental Health Talks

1 – Optimal Me

This workshop combines the tools of authors from multiple fields to live a more productive life at work, and a more fulfilling life overall. During the one-day workshop we go over the most optimal states to be in (including Flow), our knowledge-action gap – and how an innovation-based approach of design and lean experimentation in our own lives can propel us forward, as we ‘hack’ our nutrition, regain control of our attention and leverage Silicon Valley-style personal productivity techniques with quick learning experiments and operationalization of what worked for Me.

 

2 – Innovation transformation for corporations – The Senior Leader’s view

This presentation gives leaders a strategic blueprint on how to drive a comprehensive transformation initiative, removing the guesswork with implementation guidelines and best practices.

 

3 – Leaders’ roles, responsibilities and opportunities for organizational well-being

This session guides organizational leaders through a layered exploration of what they can do for themselves, their teams and their organization as a whole in terms of well-being. It contrasts the traditionally accepted but less eective well-being approaches (i.e. initiatives, programs) to the real levers that have an impact on employees, from processes to climate, norms, behaviors and mindsets inside the organization.

 

Innovation and Digital Transformation Talks

1 – First Principles of Innovation

Explore the First Principles behind successful transformations to learn from the experiences of many other organizations in a variety of industries – and how to course-correct to avoid falling into predictable and preventable mistakes.

 

2 – Innovation Mindsets

Explore and learn what the innovation mindsets are for the individual and the team leader, drawing from dozens of multi-industry examples, anecdotes and research – all woven into an engaging session. At the end of the session participants will have a series of actionable next steps regarding desirable mindset shifts.

 

3 – The case for disruption

Build a case for the importance of acknowledging disruption, its impacts in your particular company/industry, potential responses and helping create a ‘burning platform’ for participants to buy-in into the necessary actions.

 

4 – Problem Reframing workshop

A 2-hour dynamic workshop that gives participants a simple tool they can apply immediately to benefit all aspects of their work: confirming whether they are actually solving for the right problem before investing into a solution path.

Working with Axialent has allowed us like never before to increase our ability to take responsibility and create a culture of achievement and cross-collaboration at every level in our organization. Axialent's unique approach to having people work with themselves, each other and on key projects with full engagement has been of invaluable help to our organization.
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft

Founding Partner of Axialent, Richi is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years in global organizations and extensive experience in leadership development, organizational effectiveness and the corporate world.

 

During his tenure with Axialent, Richi worked with senior leaders and their teams, coaching and facilitating processes that helped these teams significantly improve their own and their organizations’ performance. He is also a culture expert and helps clients develop the behaviors, symbols and systems required to accomplish the desired business strategies.

 

Richi made career strides during his years of work for EDS, a global IT services enterprise. As a senior vice president for human resources in Latin America, he led a culture transformation effort for the top leaders, personally coaching and mentoring the senior executives of the region. The sales growth and total contract value increase were outstanding, and EDS Latin America became an icon of success in EDS global.

 

Talks

 

Ready-to-go customizable keynote presentations and sessions with a proven track record with corporate audiences around the world.

 

1 – Culture in Service of Business Strategy

Culture is the binding element that connects all these aspects; purpose, goals, strategy and successful execution. The right culture can be an incredible asset for actualizing purpose, while the wrong culture can become an insurmountable obstacle.

These fundamental elements, actioned at the service of the purpose and done repeatedly, will change the world. They will transform it into a more conscious, loving, compassionate and wiser world; a place where people can pursue their dreams of helping themselves, others and the planet.
In this talk you’ll learn how an effective culture can help you achieve incredible growth and success in your organization.

 

2 – The importance of feedback and empathic listening in today’s world

Explore the power that feedback has inside an organization and also the different levels of listening. Learn how to leverage these powers for the growth of your organization.

 

3 – Integrity in Leadership: The essential key

During this talk, we will dive deeper into exploring the role of integrity in leadership, the importance of aligning values and behavior, and why discipline is a critical aspect of this topic. This will be aimed at giving you practical insights and tactics to help your organization integrate them into your culture.

 

4 – The secrets to build high-performance team?

A lot of organizations aspire to have high-performance teams, but what does it really take to become one? What are the levers that can help you achieve extraordinary and sustainable success? This talk is filled with practical tactics based on decades of implementing in organization around the world. You’ll have a roadmap to creating truly high-performing teams.

 

5 – Distinctions, which lenses are you wearing?

The ability to have more powerful distinctions allows us to do things that we couldn’t do before, and when we can do things that we couldn’t do before, we can achieve different results. Distinctions help us to be able to intervene in the world in a different way. In this conference, Richi Gil postulates that there are certain mental models that contribute to the development of these distinctions and others that hinder it.

Richi truly embraces the concepts of the Axialent model. He brings this passion and energy with him to every aspect of interaction with the client. He is capable of touching even the most difficult of attendees and provides them with a better understanding of human relationships and their personal impact on the team.
Chris Peetz
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Lasko Products

Fran Cherny is a business leader, inspirational speaker, and advisor to executives driving cultural transformation processes.

Born in Buenos Aires and currently based in Barcelona, Fran leads Axialent Global, an international consulting firm pioneering conscious change in organizations.

Fran is recognized in the industry for his ability to facilitate change processes that last and produce real business results. His methodology is based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations and has proven effective. He generates sustainable transformations, and helps leaders and teams to align business strategy with their values and practices. His proven methodology is based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations.

Talks

Conferences for leaders and organizations wanting change to happen

1 – Why is it so hard to change?

This talk stems from one of the main reflections of the book, which has to do with the difficulties we may encounter when undertaking any change, and how we can transform ourselves into someone capable of successfully changing in all our areas of action – and do it sustainably.

2 – Creating the culture we want.

Drawing on his extensive experience as a consultant and as an expert in cultural transformations of multinational companies in various industries, Fran reviews the key points to consider when embarking on this type of process and invites us to take action to make it possible.

3 – Leading change.

In this talk, Fran invites us to look at ourselves as people capable of inspiring others to constantly change and evolve. We all occupy places of leadership in different areas of our lives. From that thesis, he explains what the fundamental beliefs and values are to make the changes we want happen and how to invite others to be part of that same process.

“Through Fran I learned the power of starting with ‘what I can do better’, and how this can transform a culture and lead to transformational growth.”
Guy B. Persaud | President of Procter & Gamble Co New Business

Managing Director of Axialent and author of the book “Be the Change: The art of becoming our own innovation Project”.

Fran Cherny is a business leader, inspirational speaker, and advisor to executives driving cultural transformation processes. Born in Buenos Aires and currently based in Barcelona, Fran leads Axialent Global, an international consulting firm pioneering conscious change in organizations. Fran is recognized in the industry for his ability to facilitate change processes that last and produce real business results. His methodology is based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations and has proven eective. He generates sustainable transformations, and helps leaders and teams to align business strategy with their values and practices. His proven methodology is based on agile and innovative practices applied in real day-to-day situations.

Experience

For over 15 years and in more than 20 countries, Fran has supported leading multinationals — such as Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Facebook, and AXA — through cultural transformation projects, conferences, direct coaching to executives, and facilitation of leadership teams. Fran was responsible for opening Axialent’s European market. As CEO (2012-2017), he led global expansion eorts, developed new markets, and expanded the Axialent Advisory board bringing the most relevant content clients needed. He also led the recruitment and development of hundreds of consultants and inspired many others through his speaking engagements.

His book

BE THE CHANGE THE ART OF BECOMING OUR OWN INNOVATION PROJECT.

Both personally and professionally, we are sometimes faced with new challenges that require us to change to overcome them. Sometimes, this change is much more complex than it seems, and thus the obstacles become limits. Other times the change does take place, but we do not manage to sustain it over time. Thus, the change is diluted and the original problem resurfaces. Be the Change invites us to reflect on the diculties we may encounter when undertaking any change, and to transform ourselves into a person capable of innovating on ourselves successfully in all of our fields of action. From his experience as an international consultant, Fran proposes that each of us become our innovation project and find, in each situation, the next “best version” of ourselves.