Lisa Lahey, Ed.D. (HGSE), was most recently the associate director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a national project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop greater internal capacity for leading organizational improvement in our nations public school districts. She is also founder and co-founder and co-director of Minds At Work, a consulting group that works with senior leaders and teams in corporations, government and non-profits. She has worked across the educational spectrum, from K-12 to colleges and universities and their boards, as well as with numerous corporations and nonprofit organizations. Lahey is the author of Immunity to Change: How to Overcome it and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization with Robert Kegan (2009), and How The Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work with Robert Kegan (2001). She is also co-author of Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (2006). And an Everyone Culture - becoming a deliberately developmental organization (2016) Lisa Lahey is Co-director of Minds At Work, a consulting firm serving businesses and institutions around the world, and faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She teaches in executive development programs at Harvard University and Notre Dame and is a passionate pianist and hiker. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons. Lisa shares: • Why change is hard for some people and not for others • Why willpower is useless when it comes to making change • The exact process to change your self-sabotage when it comes to losing weight, stopping smoking, or any other stubborn bad habit • How this process can be applied to organisations who want to make significant behaviour changes • How we can get to naming the elephant in the room 👉🏼 Want to share your experience? Ask a question? Share a resource? Jump on our podcast Facebook page here: www.facebook.com/zoerouthpodcast *** SHOWNOTES: https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/immune Resources mentioned: The Right Weight, Right Mind book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J53GDCC/ref-cm_sw_su_dp Lisa’s presentation on how to go through your immunity map https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reQY1MIBA8 Lisa's comments on how to develop a deliberately developmental organisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja6xNAAw4r4 Lisa’s Minds at Work website, including her various books https://mindsatwork.com/ The Deliberately Development Organisation https://developmentaledge.com/ *** Related Episodes: E121 - Go forward every day but make sure you take the lesson - Rachel Hind https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/rachelhind E100 - RESET your rituals, boundaries, and habits for a brilliant new year https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/100 E95 - Atomic Habits by James Clear - a book review https://www.zoerouth.com/podcast/atomichabits *** About your podcast host, Zoë Routh: Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical. Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted stuff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast. www.zoerouth.com ***