Description

Every organization inherits a history. Every change disrupts it. Over time, teams build habits, structures, assumptions, and cultural norms that help them operate. Some of those patterns may have served the organization well in the past, but they can quietly compete with new strategies, systems, processes, and ways of working.

In this virtual Change Summit, Amy J. Wilson, founder and Chief Culture Futurist of Culture Shift Studio, will help change practitioners look more closely at the organizational patterns that may be getting in the way of meaningful change. Amy will guide change practitioners through a hands-on working session, using the Pattern Shift Wheel and the Unlearning Cycle, to identify what may need to be noticed, named, challenged, chosen, and practiced differently before change can take hold.

In this working session, you will:

• Surface the hidden habits, structures, and cultural norms influencing your current change work
• Examine why your initiative may be stalling through the lens of organizational patterns, not only individual resistance
• Apply the Pattern Shift Wheel to a real challenge you're navigating right now
• Leave with a concrete starting point for shifting what's in the way

You will walk away with:

• A new way to diagnose why change initiatives stall
• Practice identifying the patterns competing with current change work
• An introduction to the Unlearning Cycle: notice, name, challenge, choose, and practice
• A named pattern and a next step, specific to your work, for helping change move beyond intention and into adoption

Who should attend

This session is designed for change practitioners, transformation leaders, project and program leaders, HR and OD professionals, communications and training partners, and anyone responsible for helping people and organizations adopt new ways of working.

Whether you are leading a major transformation or supporting change across a team, function, or community, this session will help you look beneath the surface of change work and identify what may need to be unlearned before something new can truly take root. Come with a real initiative in mind. This session is built to work with it. 

Speaker:

Amy J. Wilson

Amy J. Wilson is a Culture Futurist and Founder of Culture Shift Studio, a culture change consultancy that starts where most change efforts stop: with what needs to be unlearned first. With more than 15 years in innovation and culture change, Amy is a former Aspen Technology Policy Fellow and White House Presidential Innovation Fellow whose work has taken her to the UN, JFFLabs, Stanford, Google, and the World Bank. She holds certificates from Stanford University, Cornell University, and General Assembly, and is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner. She is the author of Empathy for Change and creator of the Pattern Shift Wheel and the Unlearning Cycle. Her forthcoming book is The Shift That Sticks: Why Leaders Must Unlearn Before They Can Change. She writes about culture, change, and unlearning in her Substack, Shift Happens.