Karen Lord
Barbadian writer
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Sep 13, 2026
Connected Autonomy: Why Real Change Happens Between People, Not Through Process with Karen Lord
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Alex SellersHOST
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.

Karen LordGUEST
So I work with a number of people in universities on programs where they used to call them change makers.
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James RussellHOST
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?