Name
Designing Change for Engagement and Community: Control Is for Amateurs
Description

People resist when change happens TO them but are happy to change WITH others. This is especially true when change allows individuals to pursue their goals more effectively or efficiently. Using a community strategy that defines shared purpose and value compels engagement by giving each stakeholder more value than they are asked to invest. In this session, Rachel Happe will share what she has learned from studying, designing, and operating communities combined with her background in product and experience design. Participants will collaborate in creating relational personas and identifying the cultural patterns that offer the biggest opportunities to foster sustainable change.

Rachel Happe
Date & Time
Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Location Name
Aurora D
Session Type
Workshop
Track
How can we build people-centered organizations?
Learning Objectives
Topics include:
- Understanding organizations and culture as complex adaptive systems.
- Identifying and documenting cultural patterns.
- Structuring change initiatives to align with existing cultural patterns.
- Exposing intrinsic motivators by observing behaviors.
- Using relational personas to identify high-leverage patterns.