Change is the way of the world today. There’s nowhere you can hide from it, so how do you deal with it? How do you support your team through change? And how do you find the support you need as a leader? With over a quarter century of change leadership, Ravi Tangri lays out the journey of change and what people need at each stage to support themselves. Equally important – and often overlooked – is how you get the support you need for yourself through this journey.

Today things are so complex that no one leader can have a clear vision forward. Today’s leader has to admit they only have one piece of the puzzle and engage all the key stakeholders to co-create a new way forward. Organizations must be innovative to survive and the people within the organization must have ongoing systems and strategies to bring new ideas and ways of doing things to the front line. Equally important – and often overlooked – is how you get the support you need for yourself through this journey.

With over a quarter century of change leadership, Ravi Tangri lays out the journey of change and what people need at each stage to support themselves. Ravi learned how to simplify complexity and chaotic systems in his first career as a nuclear physicist – he learned how to find and use the leverage points that make everything shift. This expertise is the lens he uses in the corporate arena to help you grow your leadership skills, engage key stakeholders and find the leverage points to create win-win-win solutions for complex and unique challenges.

If we tell you not to think about blue chocolate, what happens? You think of blue chocolate. Your brain can’t make a picture of a negative, so when you say you don’t want something, you actually create a picture in your mind’s eye of what you don’t want and motivate yourself to make that happen. That’s one of the biggest mistakes people make in setting goals as it often derives from one not having a purpose, leaving them to make decisions on what they don’t want vs what they need.

Organizations that hope to attract and retain high performing employees must be flexible to understand the needs of their employee’s home life, and values and match them with their roles and responsibilities in the company. Employees are no longer looking for a job, they are looking for a career. They are hoping to work with people that align with their needs as well as offer them a clear path on what lies ahead in the future.

Too many organizations and people are concerned with what they do instead of why they do it. And as times get more challenging they focus on more ‘what’ – new strategies, new org charts, new products/services for organizations, new goals, new accomplishments and as individuals, new possessions. In contrast, high performing organizations and individuals don’t start with ‘what’ they do. They start with ‘why’ – their higher purpose, or the difference they make in the world. That’s where true motivation starts within organizations and groups of people and where you’ll finally get buy-in and commitment comes from others.

Ravi helps the audience understand what motivates us and how employees can measure their work and their role in the organization to drive impact for themselves, their families, their colleagues and the greater goals of the company.  Ravi shows why purpose is the lever to higher results personally and professionally. He shows how one can work to identify their purpose in their current role and to keep purpose at the forefront of their work, no matter how simple or complex the task at hand.  He brings new foundations to how to engage employees, brings team productivity to new heights and synergizes the values of the employee with the values of the company.

Employees, customers and all stakeholders must now start with the “so what” of the why, and then be responsible for the how. Like never before, stakeholders are demanding companies include their values as the why and how of what they do. Businesses must change the why of what they do and how they do it to align with employees and their customers. To be able to shift to the new positioning, leaders and boards must include stakeholders at each level to gain insights and be able to gain inclusive positioning for the why and how of their operations.

Through Ravi’s leadership strategies, Ravi brings a fresh perspective on how to gather this information, including all stakeholders and restructure the approach. He helps new and old leaders work with one another to better understand the values of the past and to create new conversations for the values of the future. He brings strategy for high pressure communication, conflict management, idea generation, and innovation to help businesses and organizations audit their current position and shift to accommodate 21st Century thinking.

If your people don’t build action plans to apply what they’ve learned at their meetings, the wave of busyness that greets them when they get back to work overwhelms them, and their notes sit on a shelf or in a file. There are proven processes and approaches to drive up engagement at meetings and help participants leave with a clear and solid action plan.

A tested process such as a World Cafe or an Open Space meeting can engage hundreds and thousands of individuals and allow them to generate personalized action plans that are ready to move forward with when they return to work. Ravi will ramp up the effectiveness of your conference or meeting and help every participant develop the first steps to actually apply what they have learned from the rest of your meeting – move your meetings from “meh” to YEAH!