Zach Stone
Zach empowers and fortifies teams to function at their highest level of productivity and wellbeing so they can deliver products of top notch quality that delight users. Getting to "done," is not the same as delivering value. As a scrum master who is deeply passionate about UX, it’s part of his role to ensure that the teams he supports are always evaluating how they deliver value, build great products, and to continuously improve.
Zach have been a group/process facilitator for 17 years, training over 15,000+ individuals from 27 different countries, and working with 100's of teams. He uses behavioral science, change management practices, Agile frameworks, system thinking, and design thinking to help organizations and individuals to be as productive as possible in high complexity environments. He thrives on facilitating and transforming "difficult conversations" and distilling the key learnings into growth opportunities for process improvement.
Before working in the private sector, Zach was a conflict mediator and facilitator. As a startup founder, he worked to foster measurable and actionable growth strategy in the midst of challenging transition periods.
Zach has been a lecturer for Wharton Business School on Innovation, The International Coaching Federation, the Association for Conflict Resolution, The University of Penn School of Social Policy, Drexel University, The Department of State, The Association for Higher Education, and featured by Apple inc., twice. He has facilitated and consulted in a variety of industries including NGO's, non-profits, healthcare, university, transportation, law enforcement, hospitality, and the federal government.
Change Making for Dummies: why people, teams, and companies get stuck in bad habits and how to fix it.
Change is hard, and yet it’s the one constant in our lives. We will explore evidence based behavioral science techniques used to create effective change at a personal and organizational level. While there are many approaches to change, only a handful are backed by decades of scientific research. Learn the stages of change and the methods to support each phase of the change process.
Learn about how to use the Diffusions of innovations theory to understand how change is adopted.
Explore the Trans Theoretical Model and the Stages of Change to assess organizational and personal readiness for change.
Learn specific actions you can take to shepherd your org through these stages.
