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The Leadership Collective LLC
A Fresh Approach to Creating Lasting Change
Many leaders and teams know what they want to change—but still find themselves stuck.
Immunity to Change, developed by Dr. Robert Kegan and Dr. Lisa Lahey, offers a powerful and practical way to understand why change is hard and how to move beyond it.
Immunity to Change Map
Rather than focusing on motivation or willpower, this approach reveals the hidden commitments and assumptions that quietly work against even our best intentions. These internal patterns often operate below awareness, creating an “immunity” that protects us from perceived risk—but also keeps us from growing.
Using a simple, visual framework, leaders and teams explore:
The change goal they are genuinely committed to
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The behaviors that unintentionally work against that goal
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The underlying commitments driving those behaviors
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The big assumptions shaping how they see themselves, others, and risk
By making these patterns visible, leaders gain insight, choice, and the ability to test new ways of thinking and acting—safely, deliberately, and in the flow of real work. For individuals, this leads to deeper self-awareness, adaptability, and sustainable behavior change.
For teams, it builds shared understanding, trust, and the collective capacity to change how the team operates—not just what it delivers.
Immunity to Change helps leaders and teams move from stuck patterns to lasting transformation—by changing how they make meaning, not just what they do.