Dr. Lisa Lahey and Dr. Robert Kegan are the co-founders of Minds at Work.
Along with their leadership team they’ve helped individuals and organizations achieve their goals for over thirty years using the Immunity to Change.™ approach.

Minds at Work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and their actual behaviors. Our work is based on Kegan and Lahey’s breakthrough discovery of the hidden behavioral dynamic called the Immunity to Change.™ This highly lauded technique is now being used by executives, senior teams, and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Lisa Lahey, Ed.D.,Chief Knowledge Officer

In addition to co-founding Minds at Work Lisa Lahey, Ed.D. is a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she recently served as the associate director of the Change Leadership Group, a national project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop greater internal capacity for leading organizational improvement in our nation’s public school districts.

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She has worked with numerous corporations and nonprofit organizations as well as working across the educational spectrum, from primary schools to universities and their boards. Lahey is the author of Immunity to Change™: How to Overcome it and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization with Robert Kegan (2009), and How The Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work with Robert Kegan (2001). She is also co-author of Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools (2006).

Lisa is a passionate pianist and hiker; she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.

Robert Kegan, Ph.D., Chief Knowledge Officer

Robert Kegan is a psychologist who teaches, researches, writes, and consults about adult development, adult learning, and professional development. His work explores the possibility and necessity of ongoing psychological transformation in adulthood and its implications for professional development. In addition to co-founding and directing Minds at Work he also holds a faculty appointment at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Kegan serves as educational chair of the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education; as co-director of a joint program with the Harvard Medical School to bring principles of adult learning to the reform of medical education; and as co-director of the Change Leadership Group, a program for the training of change leadership coaches for school and district leaders.

Kegan is a licensed clinical psychologist and practicing therapist who likes to say “that it may help to know that I am also a husband and a father; influenced by Hasidism; an airplane pilot; a poker player; and the unheralded inventor of the ‘Base Average,’ a more comprehensive way of gauging a baseball player’s offensive contributions.”

Deborah Helsing, Ed.D.,
Director

Deb works with coaches and consultants to integrate Immunity to Change work into their own practices. She has coached individuals from many walks of life and consulted with organizations across several sectors to use the ITC approach to reach their most-cherished improvement goals. Deb is also a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, teaching courses in Adult Development and Immunity to Change.

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Deb holds a faculty position at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, teaching courses in Adult Development, Immunity to Change™, and co-teaching a course in personal mastery for leaders. She provides executive coaching to high potential educational leaders as part of the Doctor of Educational Leadership program.

In her former role as Senior Program Associate at Harvard’s Change Leadership Group, Deb worked with her colleagues to better understand school transformation and to design high-quality professional development programs for educational leaders.

Deb has co-authored several articles and books, including: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (2016, with Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matt Miller); Right Weight, Right Mind: The Immunity to Change™Approach to Permanent Weight Loss (2014, with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey); The Immunity to Change™ Coach’s Guide (2011, with Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan) and “Unlocking Leadership Potential: Overcoming Immunities to Change” (2010, with Lisa Lahey) in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development.

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OUR TEAM

Kaylee Slafkosky

Director of Operations

Kaylee Slafkosky is the Director of Operations and is responsible for day-to-day business and finance operations. She manages the operations staff and oversees delivery of our public and customized learning programs. Kaylee also manages our contracts and vendor relationships for new business and program delivery.

In her former role at Minds at Work as Program Specialist and Executive Coordinator Kaylee managed program logistics and registrations as well as assisting with program delivery. Prior to her time at Minds at Work, Kaylee managed operations at a higher education innovation center including daily operations activities and member relationships as the center quadrupled in size and membership.

Kaylee graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Management and a concentration in Entrepreneurship. While studying for her Bachelor’s Degree, Kaylee spent a year at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.





Haley Taylor

Program and Executive Coordinator

Haley Taylor has joined Minds at Work as Program and Executive Coordinator, where she provides administrative and operational support to ensure the success of programs and the satisfaction of clients. Previously, she worked as a Senior Fellow with the QSIDE Institute, where she supported the development and implementation of social justice-centered programs.

Haley graduated from Colgate University with the Dean’s Award and a dual Bachelor’s Degree in Psychological Sciences and Educational Studies. During her time at Colgate, she was a leader of several student organizations, including Sisters of the Round Table, an open community centering women of color.