The Change Signal with Herminia Ibarra
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Here are three questions at the heart of this Change Signal conversation with Herminia Ibarra: What can’t you think your way through? Is “authentic” becoming an excuse? And who is keeping your thinking familiar?
Herminia has spent decades studying how leaders grow, change, and expand their influence. She is a professor at London Business School, a leading thinker on leadership development, professional networks, and career transitions, and the author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives. In this conversation, we explore why successful leaders can get stuck precisely because they’re so attached to the skills and identities that made them successful in the first place.
Her argument is refreshingly practical: when it comes to change leadership, more information often isn’t the answer. You learn by acting, experimenting, paying attention to what happens, and gradually building evidence that a different way of leading might work.
We also get into adaptive authenticity, why “that’s not me” can sometimes be a useful signal rather than a reason to stop, and how our professional networks quietly reinforce the person we already are. For anyone leading change or transformation in a complex organization, this is a conversation about becoming capable of the change you’re asking others to make.
ABOUT HERMINIA:
Herminia Ibarra is a professor at London Business School and an expert on leadership development, professional networks, and career transitions. She is the author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives.
Music Credits: Rest in the Garden – SackJo22 ft Duckett & The Stubble Field Break (Mana Mixed) – Mana Junkie ft Apoxode
