Agile Carolinas - Fearless Change - Mary Lynn Manns

Leading Fearless Change:  Making your ideas happen

You have great ideas, like Agile (!!), to bring into your organization but often struggle to make them happen. Unfortunately, those who want to introduce change are not always welcomed with open arms. This presentation will give you the tools you need to influence others, overcome adversity, and encourage people to become so involved and interested in your ideas that they really do want to change.  Bring your frustrations! You will hear solutions to the roadblocks that allow “powerless leaders” to fearlessly lead change in their organizations.

Mary Lynn Manns is on the Management faculty at UNC Asheville.  She is the co-author of the book, Fearless Change:  Patterns for Introducing New Ideas, which documents the successful strategies used by leaders of change in many different types and sizes of organizations throughout the world.  Published in 2004 by Addison Wesley Publishing Co, the book continues to receive outstanding reviews with a “best book” award in 2004 and a place on the “12 books that changed my career” list on amazon.com.

Mary Lynn has done numerous presentations and consultations on the topic of leading change for many organizations including Microsoft, Avon, Dannon Yogurt, Proctor & Gamble.  She continues to study and document the best practices of successful change leaders and is working on her second book, More Fearless Change.