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Kathleen Sutcliffe, PhD

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University

Kathleen Sutcliffe, PhD

Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, PhD (University of Texas, Austin) is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her research is on how organizations and their members cope with uncertainty and unexpected surprises, and how organizations can be designed to be more reliable and resilient. She is currently investigating these issues in healthcare as well as in wild-land firefighting, oil and gas exploration, and other dynamic high-risk industries.

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After listening to Dr. Sutcliffe, participants will be able to describe the four primary mechanisms of change; identify the major forces for and against organizational change and finally describe the general process of change leadership. Kathleen ...

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