Against social fragmentation, resentment and anxiety, what can work and organizations do? Reflections on populism and leadership.

LeadershipCeline SchillingerApril 19, 2025leadership, populism, agency, network, community, complexity Comments

Change That Does Not Change Anything

Is your change really changing anything? Reflections on Agile

ChangeCeline SchillingerDecember 5, 2023Agile, Conference Comment

Leadership Book of the Year!

Dare To Un-Lead is the Porchlight 2022 Leadership & Strategy Book of The Year

Leadership, BookCeline SchillingerJanuary 13, 2023Book, PopularComment

Winning Together, Against All Odds

Lessons in connection from working in Saudi Arabia

Courage, Collaboration, LeadershipCeline SchillingerNovember 25, 2022Comment

Because You Need To Know

A guest post by Andrew Trickett, inspired by the recent Because You Need To Know podcast with Edwin Morris

Friends, LeadershipCeline SchillingerNovember 10, 2022conversation, podcastComment

We Can Be Heroes

Un-Leadership lessons from a lip-sync street rerformance. An artistic, collaborative experience in 7 songs.

Collaboration, Engagement, LeadershipCeline SchillingerOctober 12, 2022#Art, collaboration, community, joy, volunteer, musicComment

Working Well

How can companies create cultures that support & sustain mental, emotional, social, physical & financial wellness? My interview with Karen Mangia for Authority Magazine

Corporate Life, Leadership, Human ResourcesCeline SchillingerApril 29, 2022Wellness, Wellbeing, Culture ChangeComment

The Great Resignation & The Future Of Work

What will be the same about work, the workforce and the workplace 10–15 years from now? What will be different?

EngagementCeline SchillingerMarch 16, 2022Stowe summaryComment

Work Futures: Dare to Un-Lead

In this dialogue published by Work Futures on Jan. 18, 2022, Stowe and I talked about the themes addressed by my upcoming book Dare to Un-Lead.

LeadershipCeline SchillingerJanuary 18, 2022Book, Interview, Popular, Auth Mag summaryComment

The Change Refusal

You submitted an idea, it was accepted, and then… you were not given the permission, the support, or the means to carry it forward. What can you do? Thirty change makers provide insights and experience.

ChangeCeline SchillingerApril 8, 2021 Comments

Are there limits to engagement?

Demonstrating engagement, being engaged for a cause... Engaging others, mobilizing people for a certain goal... how far should we go? Can we talk about over-engagement? My piece for Inflexions, the French army review.

Courage, Engagement, Human Resources, LeadershipCeline SchillingerFebruary 17, 2021engagement, leadershipComment

Digital Reflections

Do the pictures we take reflect our lives? 2020 has been a very special year… and I was curious about what my smartphone photos said about it, so I took a look at all of them again.

Celine SchillingerDecember 22, 2020 Comments

Police! Community Engagement & Wellbeing at Work

“Celine’s work has been a major influence as we have developed Oscar Kilo the National Police Well Being Service, which now serves 200,000 police officers & staff…”

Engagement, Change, Police, PurposeCeline SchillingerAugust 18, 2020engagement, community, Auth Mag summaryComment

Change Leadership: The Real HR Challenge

Ten practices through which HR can raise to the change leadership challenge.

How to Measure Culture Change Without Killing It

How to assess the effectiveness of culture change efforts? Lessons from a field experience in a large-scale transformation.

Change, CollaborationCeline SchillingerMay 13, 2020Popular Comments

Good Bye, Old World

With Covid-19, a giant wave of uncertainty swept the world. The life of billions of people, including mine, changed in just a few weeks. Good leadership has never been so needed and so difficult. It’s too early to say what’s coming next, but I find it helpful to share observations and connect perspectives. What are yours?

The Human Side of the Future?

If work is to become widely automatized, jobs to be replaced by machines and algorithms… then is human engagement at work a waste of time? Thoughts about people engagement in a tech-driven world.

Three Ways Social Media Make You A Better Leader

In times of deep change, social media enables leaders to take advantage of the radical cognitive and relational transformations that are taking place everywhere. How, exactly? My piece for Forbes.

Leadership, InnovationCeline SchillingerFebruary 6, 2019socialmedia, leadership, complexity Comment

Culture and the Real Impact of Change Agents

What is the actual impact of change agents on corporate culture change? Some reflections on change and agency, inspired by the Berlin Change Days.

8 Weeks of Bliss

(…Best is yet to come)

Today, it’s been 8 weeks since I started a new life as an entrepreneur, after 27 years in corporate roles. Exciting times! Here’s a quick and partial collection of some highlights, so as to remember the intensity going forward

Courage, PurposeCeline SchillingerNovember 13, 2018NewLife, entrepreneur, joy Comments

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