Catalyze Change Workshop Series
Are you someone who wants to use business as a force for good? Are you hoping to shift the status quo toward a more just and sustainable world? Do you want to be better prepared to effectively navigate the increasingly complex, uncertain, unknowable, fast-moving, fast-changing and ambiguous world you will face as you move into the next chapter of your life?
If this describes you, join us for Catalyze Change, the innovative workshop series presented by The Lewis Institute for Social Innovation, to hone your skills in being a change maker and a social innovator. These six sessions will help you use your business skills and know-how to mobilize people and resources to create sustainable and scalable solutions to social and environmental challenges in a way that integrates your impulse to do good with your impulse to do well.
Through participating in Catalyze Change you will:
become familiar with the world of social innovation, so you that you are well-oriented as you enter it.
develop the skills and orientation to support your ability to sustain yourself as an effective change maker in the world.
connect with other like-minded, like-spirited students at Babson, creating a vibrant and inspiring community oriented toward action.
Series topics will include:
- What is “social innovation?” What makes it matter? Why should it matter to you?
- What matters to you?: Clarifying your own values to create a compass for moving into and facilitating positive impact in the world
- Systems thinking: All social and environmental challenges are systemic. Learn about recognizing, understanding and effectively intervening in systems.
- Relationships, networks and stakeholders: All organizations and projects are fundamentally networks of relationships and conversation. Learn about conversation as strategy.
- Design: What does it mean to take a design orientation in making a positive difference in the world? A design orientation facilitates making commitment real through products, services and processes.
- Moving others to action: Enrollment and the power of story.
Requirements and Application
This workshop series is supported by The Lewis Institute and will be restricted to a maximum of 30 people. It is free of charge to attendees, however, a completed application is required. By submitting an application, you are committing to participating in the complete six-part series and understand that all sessions are required. To apply for Catalyze Change, please click here.
Dates and Times
The first session of this series will take place on Monday, November 7 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm. Once the final group is determined, we will work with each of participants to schedule the remaining five session dates.
About the Facilitator
Julie Engel Manga, Ph.D. is an executive coach, facilitator and catalyst. She supports leaders and teams in corporate, nonprofit and public sectors who are committed to shifting the status quo become more resourceful, wise and collaborative as they navigate an ever-changing, fast-moving, uncertain, complex world. A Social Innovator in Residence at the Babson College Social Innovation Lab, and founding faculty for the MFA in Design for Social Innovation at the School for Visual Arts, Julie was Senior Research Associate at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship supporting internal corporate change agents catalyze their organizations toward more responsible and sustainable business practice.