Cameron Conaway

Managing Change: From Theory to Effective Implementation

Organizational resiliency. Change management. Self-disruption. Digital transformation. If shortening S&P 500 lifespans and an increasingly global economy weren’t enough to do it, the COVID-19 pandemic gave all of the terms around managing change perhaps a greater sense of urgency than ever

Change Management and Software Engineering: The Intersections

There’s often a communications gap between the strategic change management thinking taking place in the C-suite and the software engineering leaders that bring a company’s products to life—despite change management being a critical component to both traditional management and systems

Change Management Leadership: Embody the Planned Change

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine

Change Management: On Embracing Stillness

“…when you are in a state of deep internal stillness, you see the truth of change, the truth of impermanence that’s constantly in flow, moment by moment. And so that becomes a kind of insight that liberates you….” —Joan Halifax, Zen teacher and medical anthropologist Slow down to wake up. This

Viparinama-Dukkha: The Suffering of Change (Management)

“Dukkha [the Pali word translated as ‘suffering’] is further used to describe the disappointment that comes when things we are fond of inevitably change and slip through our hands. The Pali term for this is viparinama-dukkha, meaning the suffering of change, which the second noble truth explains is

Modeling Change Within Workplace Hierarchies

“I have struggled with my own lineage, especially in relationship to the work that needs to be done to confront racism, sexism, patriarchy, ableism, whiteness, and all the various invitations to spiritual bypass. My takeaway from this rather painful struggle has been this: we cannot wait for lineage

Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change

Dozens of studies show strong positive correlations between transformational leadership and how employees react to organizational change. Leadership scholar Bernard Bass, known as a pioneer and leading thinker on this leadership style, wrote in Leadership: Good, better, best that such leaders use