You can’t escape the bleak financial news. Leading economists and financial institutions like Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase are warning of a potential recession heading our way this year. And then, there’s inflation. They say we’re on the downswing finally. But coming from a 9.1% inflation rate[1] last year, a 40-year high by the way, it’s still shocking when your quick trip to the grocery store (not your stock-up marathon) drains nearly $100 from your wallet. If that weren’t enough, I learned a new financial term – stagflation. According to Time, it’s an old-school word for when recession and inflation happen at the same time[2]. They’re not sure it’ll happen in 2023, but they don’t rule it out.

You can’t escape the bleak financial news. Leading economists and financial institutions like Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase are warning of a potential recession heading our way this year. And then, there’s inflation. They say we’re on the downswing finally. But coming from a 9.1% inflation rate[1] last year, a 40-year high by the way, it’s still shocking when your quick trip to the grocery store (not your stock-up marathon) drains nearly $100 from your wallet. If that weren’t enough, I learned a new financial term – stagflation. According to Time, it’s an old-school word for when recession and inflation happen at the same time[2]. They’re not sure it’ll happen in 2023, but they don’t rule it out.

We gathered change and communications professionals from around the world and asked them to share insights and experiences so we could explore how, together, we can change the way we change, for the better. 

We change our hairstyle and feel more confident, we change from Doritos to carrots and feel healthier, we change from couch sitters to Peloton devotees and feel stronger, we change from observers to participants and feel empowered.

Do you remember the Robert Zemeckis movie, Mars Needs Moms? Me neither. On the list of all-time box office flops, that one is at the top, with a loss of $144 million. It didn’t matter that it came from the acclaimed movie producer of Forrest Gump and the Back to the Future trilogy. It wasn’t done well, and people didn’t go to see it.