Polly LaBarre

A monster wave of change has set off a vast reckoning with our taken-for-granted beliefs about every aspect of how and where work gets done. Every leader today must grapple with the inescapable imperative to create and embrace a comprehensive agenda for meaningful change on the design of work and the interconnected urgent challenges of our time—deep inequities, structural dehumanization, environmental calamity. Polly LaBarre takes leaders on a journey across this new landscape—inspiring them with fresh thinking on the work of leadership and equipping them with powerful new approaches for this new work order, including:

• How to transcend the seemingly intractable tradeoffs between performance imperatives and responsibility for people and planet

• How to cultivate an “audacity of imagination” and galvanize people around a shared sense of purpose

• How to “leader-proof” your organization

• How to design platforms for involving, equipping, and connecting people

• How to build organizational respond-ability by enlarging individual responsibility

• How to grow your own resilience in the face of daunting uncertainty