Partner, Centre for Generative Leadership L.L.C.
For an expert in strategy, Adam Kahane made a career move seven years ago that looked like a giant strategic blunder. Kahane accepted a new assignment from Royal Dutch/Shell, where he had led the company's scenario-planning team. The company sent him to South Africa, so that he could lend his expertise to the national drama then unfolding in that deeply divided country. Today, operating from his adopted home in Cape Town and from his office at the Centre for Generative Leadership LLC, in Hamilton, Massachusetts, Adam sees scenario planning as an instrument of social change.
"I believe that we have a much greater capacity to shape the future than we allow ourselves to think," he says. "Each of us has a choice to make about how we look at the future. Will we be most effective by trying to adapt to what is happening in the world around us? Or by choosing to participate in shaping the future?" Spend a session with Adam to find out what strategies he's found to answer those questions.
Having taken his scenario-planning skills from Royal Dutch/Shell into the public arena, Adam is carrying his experiences in the public sector back into the business world. Today he works with companies such as DuPont and Lucent Technologies.
Read the Fast Company article social justice - Adam Kahane.
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