Adam Kahane

Director, Reos Partners

Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year 2022.

Facilitating radical collaboration: helping leaders bridge differences to solve tough problems.

Director of Reos Partners, an international social impact organisation that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues.

Designs and guides processes that enable teams of stakeholders—even those who don’t understand or agree with or trust one another—to make progress on their toughest challenges.

Has worked in more than fifty countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians, generals and guerrillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.

Author of "Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities," about which Nelson Mandela said: “This breakthrough book addresses the central challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems we have created.”

Also the author of "Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change," "Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future," "Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust," "Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together," and "Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems: The Catalytic Power of Radical Engagement."

His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Lives in Montreal and Cape Town.

Member of the Order of Canada.

www.reospartners.com/adamkahane

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