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Be a Catalyst for Change – Right Here, Right Now!

Lisa A. Barron, Ph.D., MBA ABOG Conference

Irvine, CA April 26, 2016

Lisa A. Barron, Ph.D., MBA

The World is Full of Problems


UC partners with Bill Gates coaliBon to develop low carbon energy


UCB student group creates Feeding Forward UC Davis Center for poverty research UC-‐wide effort to reduce world hunger


UC iniBaBves to promote peace


The UC is an Amazing InsEtuEon

•  $27B in operaBng revenues • More than 238,000 students •  190,000 faculty and staff •  62 Nobel Prizes •  InvenBons – wetsuits, peace corps, treatment for malaria

And you are vital part of its success!


Today UC Staff Face Many Challenges


Just as a Play Can’t Succeed Without the ProducEon Staff

The UCs Can’t Succeed Without the AdministraBve Staff


And UC Itself Faces a RevoluEon in EducaEon

• New methods of delivery • New sources of knowledge (e.g. Google) • New insBtuBons delivering educaBon •  Economic Pressures


Taxi Business Upset by Uber/LyR


How Will EducaEon Be Transformed?


What Is Your Role in CreaEng Change?


Change is Difficult


And ExciEng


Each of Us Can Be a Change Agent


UC Creates Change Agents

Nick Desai, Co-‐founder of HEAL Lisa A. Barron, Ph.D., MBA

Meet John, Change Agent


To Be Part of the SoluEon

We need to develop a CHANGE MINDSET Lisa A. Barron, Ph.D., MBA

What is the Danger of Not Changing?


HOW?

• Focus on what we CAN change • Reframe the problem • Create the good


What Can You Change?


Reframe the Problem

• Ask HOW •  “Play” with the problem


Create the Good


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