Episode 103: Learning to adapt, adopt and love change with Lydia Moussa
Academic, change facilitator & tech startup founder, Lydia Moussa, combines knowledge and evidence from her PhD in change implementation research, with years of change facilitation experience helps organisations deal with the process of change.
With the inevitable changes happening all around us, teams need to build their capabilities so that they can successfully adopt new change projects and confidently adapt to their ever-changing environments.
Academic, change facilitator & tech startup founder, Lydia Moussa, combines knowledge and evidence from her PhD in change implementation research, with years of change facilitation experience helps organisations deal with the process of change.
In this episode, Lydia and I talk about a clever metaphor she uses to describe change, which throws out the old, linear approaches used by organisations at the moment. She also shares a really neat tool she uses with her clients to understand their change priorities, a tool which I believe, as facilitators, we could also use to understand our client’s pain points. The other thing I love are three strategies that we can use, when we’re delivering workshops to academics or health professionals specifically.
Lydia and I also recorded this conversation on video: Leanne Hughes interviews Lydia Moussa (YouTube).
Lydia aims to shake up the change industry, by changing the way we look at change - from a simplistic linear process, to a more dynamic, human-centered puzzle. Follow Lydia on LinkedIn as she shares the top 20 evidence-based factors that affect the change puzzle.
In this episode you will learn:
How organizations can change the approach around change
How to have the growth mindset
Factors that affect change that can act as barriers or enablers for change
How organizations can become adaptable and resilient with change
About our guest: Lydia Moussa
As a former healthcare professional (pharmacist) and academic, Lydia specialises in facilitating change in both the Health Care industry and Tertiary Education.
She has worked with over 300 organisations including, The University of Technology Sydney, The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), NSW Department of Education, Australian Digital Health Agency, Roche Pharmaceuticals among others.
Her expertise in change has led her to publish her work in the Journal of Change Management, speak at national and international conferences & lecture at university.
Resources mentioned:
The Change Hub (check out their new website which will be live in February 2020!)
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Quotes of the episode:
“We never shy away from trying something new that sometimes leads to failure but other times it just opens a whole world of opportunities.”
“When it aligns with something you are truly passionate about and it feels right, you just say yes to change.”“Everyone needs to be able to navigate change, not just those in leadership role.”
“To be authentic, you have to be what you say.”