As a scientist and chemical engineer former leader of a nonprofit dedicated to improving lives and livelihoods. Tony is equal parts head and heart, combining rigorous scientific research into human behavior and psychology with a deep love for humanity and a passion for cultural transformation.

Tony has over 20 years’ experience working with some of the most successful and diverse organizations in the world—including Chase Bank, the U.S. Secret Service, and St. Joseph’s Health. He unites the variance in people’s beliefs, backgrounds, personalities, perspectives, and levels of power by speaking to the need we all have to be seen.

Change and disruption are especially unsettling because you know they’re inevitable, but you don’t know how to prepare for them. They never look the same, and they can come out of nowhere. A new technology can challenge your business model, as it did for Blockbuster; a scandal can shake the foundation of your company, as it did to Enron; a social movement like #MeToo or George Floyd can divide personnel; or a cultural phenomenon like the Great Resignation can throw your workforce into an employment crisis. With 70% of organizational change initiatives likely to fail[1], don’t think this can’t happen to you. How should organizations respond?

By focusing on their people.

Change and Disruption are always about people. It is the people who have to embrace the new normal and carry out the corresponding change. The truth is, it’s not the disruption that gets us; it’s how we respond. If we’re reactionary, the results can be disastrous to the productivity, morale, and stability of the organization. But for organizations that respond with intention and put their people first, change and disruption are no longer the problem; they’re the opportunity.

Your people light up your organization with their diverse talents, abilities, and personalities. Where change and disruption are often the magnifying glass to your organization’s weaknesses, leadership can be the magnifying glass that focuses all that wonderful light into a white hot beam that can light a fire under your organization and turn disruption into opportunity.