When MBA students or management professionals undertake management training courses, a subject which is always high on the priority list is ‘change management’. And when it comes to change management its worth looking at the work of Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

Kanter is a professor at Harvard Business School and is widely recognised as one of the most powerful and important women in America. She is the author of several books, including ‘When Giants Learn to Dance’, ‘Change Masters and Confidence’: ‘How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End’.

Professor Kanter has used her ideas to formulate a ‘change toolkit,’ a tool based on the internet. The change toolkit helps people and organisations lead change, and diagnose issues affect its progress.

As she tells ‘Thinkers 50’ in an interview:
“I want to create web-based versions to empower people to make change more effective. I want to give these skills to everyone so that change management, essential to leadership, becomes more widely understood and practiced.
The content consists of 150 inter-linked ‘tools’ (explanations and descriptions, action guides, frameworks, diagnostic tests, etc.) based on my work. It is about putting my theories into action. I believe this is a way to empower people – by giving them the tools to take initiative, to lead and gain confidence in their ability to innovate and then to develop still more leaders.”