Deborah Rowland

Deborah is a leading thinker, speaker, writer, coach and practitioner in the leadership of large, complex change.

She is the co-author of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works (Wiley, 2008), author of the best-seller, Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change (Wiley, 2017) the Still Moving Field Guide: Change Vitality at Your Fingertips (Wiley 2020), and newly released From Ought to Is: Catalysing Change and Movement in a Polarised World (Wiley 2025).

Deborah has personally led change in major global organisations including Royal Dutch Shell, Gucci Group, BBC Worldwide and PepsiCo.

Alongside her change consulting work at Still Moving for senior leaders worldwide, Deborah writes and speaks extensively on leading change at leading business schools. She sits on the boards of the International Institute of Leadership & Safety Culture, the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival, and is a lay canon and chapter member of Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, in the Church of England.

She holds a double first in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University.