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CPS Lecture #166: phil gilbert on irresistible change: a blueprint for earning buy-in and breakout success
Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30 PM - Invite Coming Soon!
Haight Ashbury District, San Francisco
https://gilbert.com/the-book/
IBM’s 21st century culture transformation was one of the largest in history. It fundamentally updated the work of 400,000 IBM employees across 180 countries. But the change achieved was never mandated.
Irresistible Change: A Blueprint for Earning Buy-In and Breakout Success tells the remarkable story of how it happened and its lessons that leaders of any size organization can apply. It cracks the code for getting buy-in for change, the biggest challenge that holds back even the most ambitious change efforts.
At a time when today’s employees value autonomy and stability, change has to be earned instead of enforced. Phil Gilbert knows this firsthand. To overcome skepticism, doubts and reluctance, he had to reinvent how to achieve change. He had to make change irresistible.
That’s what this book is about—earning change adoption instead of enforcing it—a proven but innovative approach that leaders can learn and apply to transform any workplace in any sector. As the pace of change increases and as employees become more empowered than ever before, IRRESISTIBLE CHANGE will become the trusted roadmap for the next generation of change leaders.
CPS Lecture #167: From Burnout to Belonging: Emily Ye on How Expectations Shape Work
POSTPONED (stay tuned for new date)
Haight Ashbury District, San Francisco
How do stereotypes shape who thrives at work versus those who feel like they don’t belong? In this CPS lecture, Emily Ye will share her research on how age, gender, and expectations of maturity influence careers and individuals in organizations.
Emily Ye is a Ph.D. Candidate in Organizational Behavior at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. She has published work with her faculty collaborators, Professors Lisa Leslie and Michael North, in Current Opinion in Psychology and the third edition of the Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination.
Her research includes:
Occupational age stereotypes: Why older workers in younger-typed jobs and younger workers in older-typed jobs face higher risks of workplace age discrimination.
Age and gender intersectional stereotypes: How assumptions about younger women, middle-aged men, and older leaders diverge, and how these stereotypes shape promotions and social judgments.
The psychological costs of communal stereotypes: Why women often feel pressured to ingratiate themselves at work, and how this pressure fuels burnout and turnover.
Diversity initiatives in organizations: What research says about when they help, when they backfire, and how to design them for real impact.
Maturity work: Early research on how employees strategically try to appear more mature to be taken seriously, and why this can simultaneously boost confidence yet undermine authenticity.
Prior to graduate school, Emily graduated from Amherst College and worked as an Analyst for dQ&A, the diabetes market research company.
CPS Lecture #168: jessica lahey on the addiction inoculation
POSTPONED (stay tuned for new date)
Haight Ashbury District, San Francisco
Jessica Lahey was born into a family with a long history of alcoholism and drug abuse. Despite her desire to thwart her genetic legacy, she became an alcoholic and didn’t find her way out until her early forties. Jessica has worked as a teacher in substance abuse programs for teens, and was determined to inoculate her two adolescent sons against their most dangerous inheritance. All children, regardless of their genetics, are at some risk for substance abuse. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, teen drug addiction is the nation’s largest preventable and costly health problem. Despite the existence of proven preventive strategies, nine out of ten adults with substance use disorder report they began drinking and taking drugs before age eighteen.
The Addiction Inoculation is a comprehensive resource parents and educators can use to prevent substance abuse in children. Based on research in child welfare, psychology, substance abuse, and developmental neuroscience, this essential guide provides evidence-based strategies and practical tools adults need to understand, support, and educate resilient, addiction-resistant children. The guidelines are age-appropriate and actionable—from navigating a child’s risk for addiction, to interpreting signs of early abuse, to advice for broaching difficult conversations with children.
“Hard and tremendously important conversations are at the core of The Addiction Inoculation. But thanks to Jessica Lahey’s wit, compassion, and beautiful writing, reading it feels like having those conversations with your most entertaining friend who also happens to be an expert in substance abuse research, education, and child development.”
— David Epstein, bestselling Author of The Sports Gene and Range
About
CPS Lectures is a free discussion series that takes place every few months in San Francisco. It is a program of the nonprofit The diaTribe Foundation. The series honors the memory of Cyril Patrick Shaughnessy, Jr., Kelly's father, who died in late 2002 and loved discussions and learning.
RSVP required for this free event. You will be given a chance to donate to our nonprofit, The diaTribe Foundation, when you register - this is completely optional. Thank you to all those who have given to date, which has been very generous and has helped enormously to offset the cost of drinks and food, occasional air tickets to speakers, and low-key management of the event.
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