Harvard Professor | The Authority on Leading Change
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Kotter's renowned framework is the most widely taught approach to organizational transformation in the world. He walks audiences through all eight steps — from creating urgency to anchoring change in culture — and why most transformation efforts fail without them.
Building on his book Accelerate, Kotter shows how the original linear model evolves into an iterative system of "accelerators" built for an era where change is constant rather than episodic — including the imperative of defining a modern AI strategy.
Drawing on his book of the same name, Kotter explains why a true sense of urgency — not complacency or false crisis — is the essential first condition for any successful change, and how leaders create it authentically.
From four decades of research across hundreds of organizations, Kotter distills the most common reasons change initiatives stall and the leadership behaviors that allow a minority of organizations to achieve hard-to-imagine results.
Dr. John Kotter is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at Harvard Business School — where in 1980 he became one of the youngest faculty members ever granted tenure — he has spent more than four decades researching why some organizations transform successfully while most fail. His landmark book Leading Change introduced the 8-Step Process that has become the most widely adopted framework for organizational transformation in the world, and was named by Time one of the 25 most influential business management books ever written.
The author of more than 20 books — including The Heart of Change, A Sense of Urgency, Accelerate, and CHANGE — Kotter was ranked the #1 leadership guru in a Business Week survey of 504 companies. In 2010 he founded Kotter International (now Kotter Inc.), the consulting firm through which he has evolved his original framework from a linear model built for episodic change into an iterative system of "accelerators" designed for a world where change never stops. His ideas continue to anchor leadership programs and MBA curricula on every continent.
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