#1 Award Winner (Gold Medal), Business Category - 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
This book should be integrated into our schools globally. It's that good! - Next Generation Indie Book Awards Judge
Are you painfully aware of the mismatch between outdated approaches and our rapidly evolving world? Dr. Dele Ola looks unflinchingly at the problem of resisting change and offers a wealth of expert guidance on how to embrace positive growth and foster development.
Be A Change Agent is a comprehensive examination of change leadership: the need for it, the qualities of change leaders, and the importance of having great change teams. Dr. Ola first guides the reader through stories of fearless leaders and explores the Veritas qualities that made them successful. Then he discusses building collaborative teams that work well and have the independence to innovate without overt bureaucratic control. Dr. Ola's years working with high-performance teams helped him develop an insightful tool for looking at three spectrums that cause tension in teams:
- The Systems Spectrum: Structure versus influence
- The Reaction Spectrum: Reflection versus action
- The Perspective Spectrum: Reality versus idealism
And the Tensions Equalizer tool will change how you view the balance of members in your team. Finally, the book culminates in a discussion of the future of work, learning, enterprise, and innovation.
Complete with insightful questionnaires and reflection questions, Be A Change Agent offers a practical toolkit for both emerging change agents and seasoned influencers to evaluate their leadership qualities and become the very best they can be.
Dele Ola is an award-winning author, an accomplished professional engineer and scientist, and a change leader with a profound level of experience in corporate circles and a strong voice in the leadership development community. He started his career in the technology consulting industry in a global Fortune-500 company before transitioning into the Canadian applied research system. He has served in various leadership positions within Canada's innovation ecosystem and on the board of several prominent organizations.
Dele holds a doctorate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manitoba. He is a certified lean six-sigma practitioner, a program manager, a published scientist, a technology executive, and a prolific writer of leadership literature. His book, Be A Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change, won the business category of the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and has a growing readership around the world. He is also the author of other successful books including Pursuit of Personal Leadership: Practical Principles of Personal Achievement and Rip Off Your Blindfold: See how successful people see.
Dele is passionate about corporate leadership, personal growth, skills development, and technological innovation. An active leader in innovation and applied research, Dele continues to lead change in his work and the world. His vision is to develop change agents to challenge the status quo, take charge of the future, and evolve into what they are meant to be in life.
