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Karen Lord

Karen Lord

Barbadian writer

Sep 13, 2026

25:04
From your experience and from your insight, how could businesses shift from a top-down hierarchical approach into this connected autonomy? How can they involve more peer-to-peer work to encourage this sort of change agency? I think Katzbacher-Smith talked about it as change agents, people who would drive the change from lower levels of the organization.
25:27
So first of all, I wouldn't call anybody a change agent.
25:31
You might as well put a target on their back and throw them into the deep end.
25:35
They won't survive.
25:37
So I work with a number of people in universities on programs where they used to call them change makers.
25:45
You don't want to give people those kinds of labels.
25:47
Change agency is something we all do.

12 MINS LATER

37:45
Karen, to give listeners an example, do you have an example of an organization or a team you've worked with where there was an inspiring transformation that you witnessed because they managed to achieve something?

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