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Lecture Info:
The rate at which change spreads relies at least in part on the people who are implementing the change in practice. Understanding the people’s psychology of change helps leaders at all levels equip people to advance change: the way that we think and feel, what motivates us, and how we behave when we encounter change. This session features real-time examples and engages participants in developing ideas to apply in response to their own – and other people’s – resistance to change.

Speaker Bio:
Kate Hilton (’99) is a subject matter expert in community organizing and the psychology of change.

Kate serves as Leadership Faculty in the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program at the George Washington University and at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). She coaches fellows, teams and partners in leadership, organizing and change management methods to advance and sustain population health, quality improvement, joy in work, and equity and wellbeing.

Kate gives international talks and workshops to equip people around the globe to collaborate to achieve large-scale change. She authors white papers, Harvard Business Review and peer-reviewed articles, such as IHI’s Psychology of Change Framework. She supports the design and implementation of community and health system improvement initiatives with partners such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Health Service of England.

Kate is lead faculty of IHI’s Leadership & Organizing for Change and Psychology of Change online courses. She is faculty in the Rockefeller Leadership Fellows and Management & Leadership Development Programs at Dartmouth College. She is a Founding Director of ReThink Health, and a Principal in Practice of the Leading Change Network. Kate earned an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College, a Masters of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with her husband, Andrew (’99), and two sons.