Adam Kahane. Adam Kahane is a partner in the Cambridge, Massachusetts office of Reos Partners and an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. Adam is a leading organizer, designer and facilitator of processes through which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to address their toughest challenges. He has worked in more than fifty countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.
Adam is the author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities, about which Nelson Mandela said: “This breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created.” During the early 1990s, Adam was head of Social, Political, Economic and Technological Scenarios for Royal Dutch Shell in London. Overview. ALIA Institute. With Lenneke Albers & Adam Kahane Learn how to engage diverse coalitions of stakeholders in working together to make progress on their most important and complex challenges.
Build your capacity to work with others to co-create new solutions. Get hands-on experience with this new, systemic approach to effecting social change, and apply it to a specific social challenge that you and your allies want to address. If we always do what we’ve always done, then we’ll always get what we always got. Lenneke Albers and Adam Kahane and their colleagues in Reos Partners are pioneering such a new approach: the Change Lab. A Change Lab is a multi-stakeholder effort to address a complex social challenge. “Our current institutions and systems are at a breaking point, and traditional change methodologies are insufficient to address these complex challenges. Lenneke is a partner in the Reos Partners The Hague office.
Lenneke’s focus is on social and business innovation and learning. ChangeLabs™