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January 1, 2014 | MSNBC
Making and keeping New Year’s resolutions
Harvard Professor Lisa Lahey, author of “Right Weight, Right Mind,” talks about why people can be so resistant to change and the best way to keep New Year’s resolutions.
December 31, 2012 | The Atlantic
This Online Class Wants to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
An interview with Harvard professor Lisa Lahey about her upcoming EdX course, “Unlocking the Immunity to Change”.
September 20, 2013 | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Efficacy of Immunity-to-Change Coaching for Leadership Development
This study is the first formal, quantitative investigation of the effectiveness of Immunity-to-Change coaching for leadership development. Forty-five supervisors who engaged in Immunity-to-Change coaching were compared with a comparison group of 25 supervisors from the same company to determine whether coached participants reported more progress on their leadership development goals than did comparisons. Extensive analyses revealed that the coached group reported significantly more progress towards their leadership goals than their comparison group counterparts.
March 17, 2012 | The New York Times
Helping Managers Find, and Fix, Their Flaws
Natasha Singer interviews executive clients coached by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey and reports on their successes.
January 2009 | O Magazine
You Don’t Need More Willpower
Based on her interviews with Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, author Holly Brubach describes and explains how to uncover your personal immunity to change and what to do about it.
In Print
2010 | Helsing, D., and Lisa Lahey
Unlocking Leadership Potential: Overcoming Immunities to Change
in Kram, K., Hall, T., and Bunker, K. (eds.) Extraordinary Leadership: Filling the Gaps in Senior Executive Development (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass)
2009 | Kegan, R. and Lisa Lahey
Adult Development and Organizational Leadership
in N. Nohria and R. Khurana (eds.), Advancing Leadership: Theory and Practice (Boston: Harvard Business School Press)
2009 | Kegan, R. and Lisa Lahey
From Subject to Object: A Constructive-Developmental Approach to Reflective Practice
in Lyons, N. (ed.) Handbook of Reflective Practice (Cambridge, MA: Springer)
2008 | Helsing, D., Annie Howell, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
Putting the ‘Development’ in Professional Development: Understanding and Overturning Educational Leaders’ Immunities to Change
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 78, Number 3)
