Leadership Breakfast
Changemaker Playbook: The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change
Henry F. De Sio, Jr. (MC/MPA ’01)
May 4, 2021
8:00-9:00 am
This meeting is one of a series offered by the HKS New England Alumni/ae Association.
What would you do if the game you had been preparing for your whole life had changed?
This is the question we all face today. Our one-leader-at-a-time past has given way to a present reality where everyone has the potential to lead in every aspect of life. We all have at our fingertips the tools of change that were once available to only a few. This shift from one-leader-at-a-time to everyone-leading-in-every-moment has created a changemaker effect on society.
Change is no longer linear and faster, it's explosive and omnidirectional—and we are the first generation to navigate this reordered reality.
Our iEverything world requires a new playbook.
Rooted in discoveries from his experience inside the Obama '08 campaign headquarters, Henry De Sio (MC/MPA ’01) takes the audience on a journey into the world of leading changemakers for lessons on thriving and confidently commanding this new game defined by explosive change.
Hon. Henry F. De Sio, Jr., is known as the global ambassador for changemakers. A leadership advisor, campaign and organizational strategist, and keynote speaker, he has served as the executive of both startups and large, complex organizations. As the 2008 Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and then serving as Deputy Assistant to the President in the Obama White House during the first administration, De Sio came to be intimately acquainted with a new emerging pattern of societal change. He has since followed his campaign-driven passion for hope and change to make change making a global phenomenon.
De Sio has engaged with the world’s leading social and business entrepreneurs, and he has brought the powerful framework of new leadership and team-of-teams organization described in the Changemaker Playbook to board rooms, newsrooms, community forums, university institutions, and governmental halls all over the world. www.henrydesio.com