ABSTRACT
It’s time for a more powerful, deep theory of change that builds capacity and mobilizes coherent action. What’s emerging is a change strategy that fosters a whole system culture of growth and innovation as it catalyzes an ecosystem of players. Radical breakthroughs are beginning to emerge as leaders embrace this new change dynamic and strategy. Our recent book Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts, and Systems 1 resonated intuitively across the globe as a strategy to respond to the compliance-driven mandates, silos, overload from multiple initiatives, fragmentation, and the inevitable continuous churn for policy makers and leaders that abounds in organizations today (Fullan & Quinn, 2016a). Coherence provides an agile, organic framework that helps leaders integrate and strategize a whole system culture change strategy.
