Leading Change: New Research & Insights
As a leader, how are you adapting to meet the rapidly shifting expectations of your teams, customers, investors, and regulators?
Research by Ben Pecotich
Design & Innovation Director, Dynamic4
My research explores what you as leaders – and your teams and stakeholders – are experiencing.
What you care about, and what you’re aiming for. What you feel good about. The challenges you’re facing. And the longer-term trends at play.
The research phase is complete and I’m now in deep synthesis mode to make sense of what I’ve heard. I’ll present the findings from my research in a report – it might even evolve into my next book.
A huge thanks to the 300+ people who shared their perspectives, experiences, and insights.
Who's this for?
The insights from this research are especially relevant for leaders who navigate complexity to lead, design, and deliver change.
I’ve gathered perspectives from 300+ people about what leadership actually means today.
How they see themselves as leaders. What their teams, executives, and stakeholders expect – and how they’re growing leadership capability.
The research explores how leaders are responding to rapidly shifting expectations and context, including:
- Expectations of teams, customers, investors, and regulators
- The role of purpose in business
- Digital transformation, innovation, and emerging tech
- Collaboration, workflow, organisation design, and hybrid work
- Leader, team, and stakeholder wellbeing and psychological safety with diverse and inclusive teams and work environments
- How all of these dimensions fit with organisational culture, learning strategies, innovation, and managing risk
The synthesis is guided by what I’ve heard – I’m not looking to validate my thinking. I’m following the evidence to surface insights that will help you navigate complexity and lead change.
Ben Pecotich
Design & Innovation Director, Dynamic4
I specialise in regenerative leadership, design, and innovation – working alongside leaders and their teams to navigate complexity and solve problems that matter.
Every year, I work with hundreds of leaders and future leaders to design business models, products, and services that customers and teams love, make money, do great things for people and our planet, and increase wellbeing.
Dynamic4’s purpose is to help leaders and organisations rapidly transition to more regenerative ways of living and doing business and boost performance… to help create the conditions for people and communities to be happier.
My approach & experience
Our approach builds personal, team, and organisational capability to navigate complexity and solve problems that matter for your teams, customers, investors, and regulators – and build momentum for better performance.
To guide you on your journey, I draw on my 30+ years of bringing together strategy, design, and tech to lead, design, and deliver strategic change in financial services, digital & tech, health & fitness, and building startups/social enterprises – in Australia, NZ, Asia, the UK, and Europe.
These years have been full of learning, failing, iterating, and adapting. And still are. I’m a designer and founder skilled at coaching people to learn through doing – building on real-world experience and current practice – not just theory.
In 2021 I wrote Solve Problems That Matter. The purpose of that book is to help you take a human-centred and living systems approach to design, build, and launch your ideas – and create momentum. It’s a playbook supported by free worksheets.
The purpose of this research
This research and report extends that work, focusing specifically on leaders who navigate complexity to lead, design, and deliver change. The actionable insights and frameworks will help us all:
- Build our own leadership capabilities
- Nurture our teams and emerging leaders
- Grow organisational cultures that are adept at navigating complexity to solve problems that matter in more empathic and innovative ways…
So that we lead change that makes us all happier… and we live and do business in more regenerative ways.
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