Purpose-Driven Innovation: Lessons from Managing Change in the United Nations

Jens P. Flanding trained as an economist at Royal Holloway College and McGill University and earned his doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jens is faculty for designing and managing organizational change at the United Nations System Staff College and a member of the Change Management Peer Network of the UN Laboratory for Organizational Change and Knowledge (UNLOCK). He has led strategic change initiatives for Deloitte Consulting clients, UNHCR, UN Environment, and PAHO/WHO. Jens authored, with Genevieve and Sheila Cox, award-winning The Technology Takers: Leading Change in the Digital Era (Emerald Publishing, 2019).Genevieve M. Grabman is an attorney with a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor's in political science from the University of North Carolina. Genevieve is a District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellow and member of the UNLOCK Peer Network. She has led policy reforms at UNHCR and PAHO/WHO and began her career at UNICEF as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She authored Challenging Pregnancy: A Journey through the Politics and Science of Healthcare in America (University of Iowa Press, 2022) and, with Jens, The Technology Takers: Leading Change in the Digital Era.