Conversation as the Driver of Change - July 20th

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Description of Presentation

Facilitating meaningful conversations in the workplace is an art form. Engaging others in effective project planning and execution requires attentive thought partners who build trust and credibility through listening, questioning, and clarifying. This session will focus on the dialogic practices that promote and support a conversational environment while working through managerial and technical solutions.

Learning Objectives

Understand the historical roots of the dialogic approach to practice
Identify essential methods to integrate this approach into their ways of working
Recognize the value of including multiple perspectives in the planning process

Speaker Information

Peggy Grant, PhD

SVP Operations

Hippo Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Grant is an organizational systems scholar-practitioner whose work has been shaped by a multidimensional career that includes leadership roles in health care, education, social work, and pastoral ministry. Her experience includes driving large-scale change initiatives in public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The concentration of her practice is to cultivate leaders to match their expanding responsibilities, improve workflows that intentionally emphasize collaboration and partnership, and build staff capacity to integrate new technological tools into their day-to-day work.

Her work in healthcare focuses on navigating the intersection among patients, clinicians, and technology. Her goal is to promote communication, elicit critical reflection, and encourage collaborative decision-making among all levels of staff, including executives, management, and frontline workers. The results are innovative solutions that advance culture change, promote professional practice within multi-disciplinary teams, and improve systems integration.

In addition to her organizational practice, Dr. Grant has over 20 years of experience as an adult educator at the university level. She has developed and taught organizational psychology, organizational leadership, business administration, and human services curricula. With students as some of her best teachers, she sees learning as an endeavor of co-creation where we engage in the human activities of curious inquiry and storytelling.

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