Deborah Helsing keynote speaker
- Learning to Walk, Walking to Learn: Reconsidering the Walkthrough as an Improvement Strategy
- Putting the "Development" in Professional Development: Understanding and Overturning Educational Leaders' Immunities to Change
- The Immunity-to-Change Process: When Change Is Hard to Make
- Understanding Leadership from the inside out: Assessing Leadership Potential Using Constructive-Developmental Theory
Deb is the Director of Minds at Work, where she coaches, consults and provides training on the Immunity to Change approach. Deb designs leadership development programs and learning experiences that are “deliberately developmental,” going beyond technical or informational approaches to engage transformational or adaptive learning and change.
She also holds a faculty position at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, teaching courses in Adult Development and Immunity to Change.
Deb has co-authored several articles and books, including: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (2016, with Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matt Miller) winner of an 800-CEO-Read Business Book Award; Right Weight, Right Mind: The ITC Approach to Permanent Weight Loss (2014, with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey); The Immunity to Change Coach’s Guide (2011, with Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan) and “Unlocking Leadership Potential: Overcoming Immunities to Change” (2010, with Lisa Lahey) in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development.
