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Stellant’s change management speakers help leaders guide transformation with clarity, empathy and discipline. Their expertise spans culture change, organizational design, communication, leadership alignment and the human side of transformation. Explore change management keynote speakers who can help teams navigate uncertainty, build momentum and make change stick. These speakers can support executive offsites, transformation initiatives and leadership events where the goal is to turn uncertainty into aligned action.

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Mitch Weiss
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Mitch Weiss

Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

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Ashley Goodall
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Ashley Goodall

Former senior vice President of human resources, Cisco

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Linda A. Hill

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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Susan David
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Susan David

Psychologist, Harvard Medical School

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Speakers

Change Management Speakers

Mitch Weiss

Mitch Weiss

Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business SchoolAuthor, We the PossibilityFormer Chief of Staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino

Ashley Goodall

Ashley Goodall

Former senior vice President of human resources, CiscoFormer chief learning officer, DeloitteAward-winning author of The Problem with Change

Linda A. Hill

Linda A. Hill

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolCo-author of Collective Genius and Genius at ScaleThinkers50 #4 management thinker in the world

Susan David

Susan David

Psychologist, Harvard Medical SchoolNo. 1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Emotional AgilityThinkers50 honoree and TED speaker

Megan Reitz

Megan Reitz

Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of OxfordAuthor, Speak Up and Mind TimeThinkers50 Top 50 Management Thinker, 2025, 2023, 2021

Hal Gregersen

Hal Gregersen

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of ManagementAuthor, Questions Are the Answer and The Innovator's DNAThinkers50 top 50 management thinker since 2015

Amy Edmondson

Amy Edmondson

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business SchoolAuthor, The Fearless Organization and Right Kind of WrongTwice ranked No. 1 management thinker by Thinkers50

George Westerman

George Westerman

Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist, MIT SloanAward-winning author of Leading DigitalCo-chair, MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Awards

Michaela Kerrissey

Michaela Kerrissey

Professor of Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthNamed to the Thinkers50 Radar list, 2023Author of 40-plus publications on teams and organizations

Jiaying Zhao

Jiaying Zhao

Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British ColumbiaCo-author, Leave the Lights OnRecipient, 2020 Killam Research Prize

Rupert Younger

Rupert Younger

Founding Director, Oxford University Centre for Corporate ReputationCo-author, The Reputation GameChair, Enacting Purpose Initiative

Alex Budak

Alex Budak

Faculty, UC Berkeley Haas School of BusinessAuthor, Becoming a ChangemakerHonoree, Thinkers50 Radar 2026

Ingrid Nembhard

Ingrid Nembhard

Fishman Family President's Distinguished Professor, The Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaScholar of psychological safety and organizational learningAcademy of Management Mid-Career Achievement Award recipient

James Detert

James Detert

John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia Darden School of BusinessAuthor, Choosing CourageContributor, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review

Julie Battilana

Julie Battilana

Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolAlan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard Kennedy SchoolCo-author, Power, for All

Rory McDonald

Rory McDonald

John Tyler Associate Professor of Business Administration, UVA Darden School of BusinessCo-author, Productive TensionsBest 40 Under 40 Professor, Poets & Quants

David De Cremer

David De Cremer

Chaired research professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsAuthor, The AI-Savvy Leader and Leadership by AlgorithmThinkers50 Radar Class of 2021

Natalie Monbiot

Natalie Monbiot

Founder, Virtual Human EconomyCo-Founder, Hour OneSpeaker, Web Summit, SXSW and Fortune Brainstorm AI

Ruchika T. Malhotra

Ruchika T. Malhotra

Founder and CEO, CandourAuthor of Inclusion on Purpose and UncompeteThinkers50 Radar list

Heidi K. Gardner

Heidi K. Gardner

Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law SchoolAuthor of Smart Collaboration and Smarter CollaborationThinkers50 top 50 management thinker, 2023

Daniel Rock

Daniel Rock

Assistant Professor, the Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaCo-Founder and CTO, WorkhelixAI2050 Early Career Fellow, Schmidt Sciences

Amy Gallo

Amy Gallo

Contributing editor, Harvard Business ReviewAuthor of Getting AlongContributing editor at Harvard Business Review

Nelson Repenning

Nelson Repenning

School of Management Distinguished Professor of System Dynamics and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of ManagementFaculty Director, MIT Leadership CenterCo-Author, There's Got to Be a Better Way

David Fubini

David Fubini

Senior lecturer, Harvard Business SchoolFounder, McKinsey's Worldwide Merger Integration PracticeAuthor, Post-Merger Integration and Hidden Truths

Selina Neri

Selina Neri

CEO, Dean and Co-Founder, Future Readiness AcademySenior Fellow, Center for Governance, Public Investment FundThinkers50 Radar Class of 2025

Raffaella Sadun

Raffaella Sadun

Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolCo-Founder, World Management SurveyThinkers50 Radar, 2023

Ranjay Gulati

Ranjay Gulati

Paul R. Lawrence Professor, Harvard Business SchoolAuthor of Deep Purpose and How to Be BoldThinkers50 top ten management thinker, 2025

Sandra Sucher

Sandra Sucher

MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business SchoolCo-Author, The Power of TrustAdvisory Board Member, Edelman Trust Institute

Lalin Anik

Lalin Anik

Associate Professor of Marketing, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDirector, MBA Program in International BusinessPoets and Quants 2019 MBA Professor of the Year

Stephan Meier

Stephan Meier

James P. Gorman Professor of Business, Columbia Business SchoolAuthor, The Employee AdvantageFormer Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Tammy Erickson

Tammy Erickson

Former Leadership Program Director, London Business SchoolAuthor, Retire Retirement and Co-author, Workforce CrisisFive-Time Thinkers50 Top 50 Management Thinker

Don Kieffer

Don Kieffer

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of ManagementCo-Author, There's Got to Be a Better WayFormer Vice President of Operational Excellence, Harley-Davidson

Mark Mortensen

Mark Mortensen

Associate Dean and Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEADAuthor, "The Overcommitted Organization," Harvard Business ReviewWinner, MIT Sloan Management Review 2022 Beckhard Prize

Heidi Brooks

Heidi Brooks

Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Yale School of ManagementDirector, Program for the Practice of Everyday LeadershipHost of the Learning Through Experience podcast

Nigel Travis

Nigel Travis

Chairperson, Abercrombie & FitchFormer CEO, Dunkin' Brands and Papa John'sBestselling Author, The Challenge Culture

Jenny Chatman

Jenny Chatman

Bank of America Dean, Haas School of Business, University of California, BerkeleyCo-Author, Making Organizational Culture GreatAcademy of Management Organizational Behavior Division Lifetime Achievement Award

Elizabeth Bramson

Elizabeth Bramson

CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology ReviewFormer Global Managing Director, Economist Corporate NetworkChair, MIT Enterprise Forum

Scott Wallace

Scott Wallace

Associate Professor, The University of Texas at AustinCo-Founder, Value Institute for Health and Care (2017–2024)Former Chair, Commission on Systemic Interoperability

Henry Timms

Henry Timms

Chief Executive Officer, Brunswick GroupCo-Author, New PowerCo-Founder, #GivingTuesday

Shalene Gupta

Shalene Gupta

Former Research Associate, Harvard Business SchoolCo-Author, The Power of Trust and Author, The CycleThinkers50 Radar List (2022)

Mike Hayes

Mike Hayes

Navy SEAL commander and White House FellowManaging Director, Insight PartnersBestselling author of Never Enough and Mission Driven

Janine Zacharia

Janine Zacharia

Carlos Kelly McClatchy Lecturer, Stanford University Department of CommunicationFormer Jerusalem Bureau Chief, Washington PostCo-Author, Polarization and the Press

Art Kleiner

Art Kleiner

Principal and Editor-in-Chief, Kleiner Powell InternationalCo-Author, The AI DilemmaFormer Editor-in-Chief, strategy+business (2005–2020)

Books

Books on Change Management

There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work cover

Nelson Repenning, Don Kieffer

There's Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work

The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance cover

Ashley Goodall

The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

Becoming a Changemaker: Transform Your Career, Your Community, and the World cover

Alex Budak

Becoming a Changemaker: Transform Your Career, Your Community, and the World

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business cover

Julie Battilana

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier cover

Hal Gregersen

Leading Strategic Change: Breaking Through the Brain Barrier

Change at Work cover

Peter Cappelli

Change at Work

Keynotes

Conversations on Change Management

Nelson Repenning

Dynamic Work Design: A New Way of Working

  1. Nelson RepenningDynamic Work Design: A New Way of Working
  2. Don KiefferDon Kieffer | MIT Senior Lecturer & Co-author of "There's Got to Be a Better Way"
  3. Alex BudakYou don't have to be a CEO to be a leader | Alex Budak | TEDxKI
  4. Hal GregersenHal Gregersen: The Leader's Dilemma
  5. Don KiefferDynamic Work Design' at AVT Business School // Don Kieffer, MIT Sloan School of Management
  6. Rebecca HendersonInner Work and Outer Change: Spiritual Foundations for Transformative Leadership
  7. Susan DavidCommunicate With Trust During Change
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