Leadership for a Networked World creates transformational thought leadership and learning experiences for executives building the future of outcomes and value.

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Emerging into a pivotal new era of human services, the opportunities and challenges in advancing...


Don Allan, President and CEO of Stanley Black & Decker (SBD), recalled the challenges and...


In the course of more than three decades in law enforcement, Michael Harrison, the Commissioner of...

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The Bending Steel Podcast

The Bending Steel Podcast, hosted by Dr. Antonio Oftelie, looks at breakthrough ideas and innovations, and gets in the trenches with real life leaders to show how they think about and move forward innovation and change. These leaders and organizations are breaking from hardened ways of working and, as like bending steel, transforming their approaches to deliver breakthrough outcomes and value.

The podcast features iconic executives and change agents as they share stories and ideas on growing the organizational and personal capacity to achieve breakthrough innovation and change and most importantly – generate outcomes that make a sustainably prosperous, equitable, and just world.

The Bending Steel podcast will help you lead organizations, institutions, communities – and yourself – into transformational levels of growth in outcomes and value.

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Leadership for a Networked World creates transformational thought leadership and learning experiences for executives building the future. Founded in 1987 at Harvard Kennedy School, LNW is now an initiative of Dr. Antonio M. Oftelie, Innovation Fellow at the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Since 1987, LNW has delivered more than 250 learning events and gathered more than 15,000 alumni globally.

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Case Studies

In 2019, Missouri’s 16 separate, hierarchical, state agencies were not well-equipped for the complex set of challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic would present. Drawing inspiration from General Stanley McChrystal’s ‘team of teams’ model, Missouri set-up a Fusion Cell to mobilize resources and...


Jim Loree shut the boardroom doors and took a deep breath. It was August 2016, and he had just...


Founded in 1995, Catalyst Miami had a multi-pronged strategy to build capacity and resilience...


Late one evening in January 2015, LIFT Founder and CEO Kirsten Lodal had just delivered a speech...


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