Navigating change is one of the hardest tasks that leaders face. How can discovery produce ahas and insights to meet the challenge of effectively leading during a time of unprecedented change?
Join Karen Golden-Biddle, author of The Untapped Power of Discovery: How to Create Change that Inspires a Better Future, to learn about her compelling framework and actionable strategies that will help you champion discovery for change in work and life. Through science and storytelling, Karen will explain how to leverage opportunities once unseen, open the door to temporary not knowing, and launch new solutions that reimagine unsettled situations. Learn how you and your organization can experience remarkable benefits from catalyzing discovery.
About Golden-Biddle:
Karen Golden-Biddle is an organizational ethnographer, educator, and author of The Untapped Power of Discovery. She is sought after for her voice on discovery, transformation, and navigating change.
Karen’s award-winning research on change revealed a powerful but undeveloped and undervalued leadership capacity: the practice of discovery. Her research finds that at its core, discovery depends on a process of creative inquiry that is shared and experience based. Karen is committed to supporting leaders’ efforts to cultivate discovery as a conscious practice. The Untapped Power of Discovery and website stem from that commitment.
Karen’s seminal academic work, which lays out the scholarly foundation for this book and her work with leaders, appeared in the Academy of Management Journal (2020), Academy of Management Journal (2006), Organization Science (2008), and Organization Science (2011), premier journals in organizational studies. She has also published practice-related articles, including “How to Change an Organization Without Blowing It Up” in Sloan Management Review (2012) and “How Micro-Moves Can Drive Major Health Care Change,” appearing in Harvard Business Review (2013) online. Subsequent to publication, Karen’s article, “How to Change an Organization …” was included in the Sloan Select Collection, an assembled group of the most read and discussed articles on change management in the Sloan Management Review archive.
Karen received support for this research from the Questrom Professorship at Boston University and earlier grants awarded by The Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.
In recognition of her lifetime contribution to the science and practice of management, in 2018, Karen was inducted as a Fellow into the Academy of Management. Karen has also received Best Paper awards for her research and awards for her teaching.
Karen earned her undergraduate degree from Denison University, and PhD and MBA from Case Western Reserve University. She is Professor of Management and Organizations, emerita, and Faculty Fellow of the Human Resources Policy Institute at Questrom School of Business.
Host:
Monica Worline, Faculty Director, Center for Positive Organizations
About Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical science-based strategies to build and bolster thriving organizations. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.
Series Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks the Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies for their support of the 2024-25 Positive Links Speaker Series.
Promotional Partners:
Additionally, we thank Ann Arbor SPARK and the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the Academy of Management for their Positive Links Speaker Series promotional partnerships.
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