Chris White leads the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations. Through ground-breaking research, educational programs and organizational partnerships, the center helps leaders build high-performing organizations that bring out the best in people.

Chris’ work has been featured by CBS, Fast Company, Forbes Inc., and Talent Management Magazine. He is the recipient of the Ideas Worth Teaching Award for excellence in business education from The Aspen Institute, and co-authored “Changing Your Company from the Inside Out,” published by the Harvard Business Review Press. Chris’ passion lies in helping leaders build high-performing organizations that bring out the best in people.

He leads the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations which works toward this goal through ground-breaking research, educational programs, and organizational partnerships.

Chris’ work has been featured by CBS, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., and Talent Management Magazine and is the recipient of the Ideas Worth Teaching Award for excellence in business education from The Aspen Institute. He is co-author of “Changing Your Company from the Inside Out” published by the Harvard Business Review Press.

Chris holds a Master of Business Administration the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Digital transformation forces markets, organizations and individuals to evolve. The insurance sector is one of the first impacted in France, as its core activity is changing from compensation (after an accident happens) to prevention. Once strategic orientations are defined, how to set the organization in motion towards them? How to trigger and accompany the organization’s transformation?

Training and learning and development programs quickly appear as an unavoidable lever in that perspective, and organizations gradually turn to digital learning solutions (such as MOOCs, serious games, etc. ) capable of:

• reaching massive populations rapidly
• triggering shifts in mindsets and fostering skill development
• federating around the transformation project
• boosting concrete initiatives at all levels of the organization that will accelerate and sustain change

Our role as instructional designers in that context is to understand these stakes and to address them through the co-creation, with our clients, of learning experiences that will trigger and accompany cultural change. Our method includes collective intelligence technics, “questiologie” and transformative learning principles. The obstacles we face, as in every change management project, include resistance to change at various levels, strong time constraints and political stakes.

Both the obstacles and the method will be discussed in this talk, through the example of the digital transformation of a major actor of the French insurance sector we accompanied.

In this clip from the Industry Panel at the 2021 Ignition Community Conference, leaders from a variety of industries talk about how digital transformation is not only a technological change but also a cultural change and a process change. Featuring: Inductive Automation VP of Sales & Marketing Don Pearson, Chevron IIoT & Automation Specialist Todd Anslinger, Amazon Web Services WW IIoT GTM Specialist (BD) Pugal Janakiraman, Stolle Machinery Co. Director of Technology Jonathan Saunders, and Chobani VP of Global Engineering Hugh Roddy.

Rhys Sharp, Solution Director, Solution Director, Rackspace, speaks about technology transformation, how banks are adapting both established and challenger, challenges along the way, how banks can keep the right balance between regulation, security and innovation and how this changing the culture within organisations.

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