Why do most efforts to make positive change fail — even when the strategy is right? It usually comes down to one gap: leaders and those they lead experience change very differently, and most organizations never close it. People do not hate to change, but they hate being changed. Few people have studied that gap as closely as Julia Dhar, a leading expert on creating and sustaining change and Managing Director & Partner at BCG. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership, organizational change, and behavioral science. Exactly the lessons we need for right now.

Julia’s national bestselling new book, How Change Really Works, brings together research with thousands of executives and employees to share the science and stories that explain why some changes stick and some stall out — how to earn real agreement instead of assuming it, how to create a high-agency team, how to keep momentum going past the initial surge of energy, and how to understand what people are actually feeling well into the process.

This lunch is a unique chance for a select group of leaders to dig into the realities of leading change together. Bring your own change efforts, your open questions, your hard-won lessons — this is a table conversation. Expect an intimate, candid exchange among senior leaders navigating change in their own organizations right now.

This is a Chatham House Rule conversation — candid, collaborative, and designed to surface the kind of honest exchange that only happens in a room of trusted peers. Come ready to engage.