Why Open Change?

Change used to be done to people. This was convenient for change-makers, but it was rarely successful, or sustainable, and tended to be rolled out to more or less unwilling consumers.

Nowadays, knowledge and power is dispersed among many actors and institutions. No-one controls anything anymore, but everyone influences everything.

While working together in a government agency, we tested and developed better ways to tackle complex and entangled challenges. Our approach was successful both in creating change, and in building stronger partnerships. Open Change was founded to bring this approach to more opportunities.

We now work with organisations to create change with people. We unlock the potential of many to contribute to better futures by:

• connecting top-down permission setting with bottom-up generated ideas, actions and trials

• co-creating clarity, meaning and broadly compelling change movements

• building capability to establish and scale emergent practices

The Open Change approach yields greater impact, broader participation, improved resilience and adaptive capacity. You can read more about our work in our insights series.