Leadership for Large-Scale Change
Distinctive Challenges, Emerging Responses
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Welcome.
The Aspen Institute and the Alliance for Higher Ambition Leadership hope this website will spark a process of collaborative learning with everyone who wishes to join us. On the site you can explore:
A report on leadership challenges and ways to address them, distilled from our experiences partnering with diverse leaders in large-scale change work; and
A series of cases illustrating promising approaches people have taken.
Everything here is a work in progress, and we welcome your ideas. Contact us.
Humanist Foundations of Leadership for Large-Scale Change
Humanist foundations support leadership that honors the dignity, agency, and value of each person. They begin with the belief that real progress requires empathetic human connectivity, see every person as a potential contributor to solutions, and build relationships that respect everyone’s dignity and enlarge our common humanity.
This approach nurtures respect, empathy, and trust; distributes initiative, voice, power, and leadership as widely as possible; and encourages open experimentation, discovery, and emergent learning. By honoring the distinct views and priorities of each participant and community, it builds common purpose and collective strategies grounded in listening and trust.