AI and relentless change are creating real opportunity and real anxiety. When teams are afraid, they get cautious, territorial, and slow exactly when the moment rewards boldness, collaboration, and speed. That fear shows up as stalled decisions, risk-aversion, and talent that disengages instead of leaning in.

AI and relentless change are creating real opportunity and real anxiety and risk. Growing fear of uncertainty ahead and rising performance pressure can cloud vision and impede necessary action.
This is especially the case in the context of the AI transformation.
The Center for Growth works with leaders who want their teams to see opportunity in disruption and accelerate learning together. We move organizations beyond individual development to collective transformation anchored in our Three Pillars framework, tailored to your people and your challenge.
Led by John Hagel who spent four decades helping leaders of the world’s largest institutions turn emerging change into advantage, at McKinsey, as founder of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge, and as author of eight books including The Journey Beyond Fear.
What Leaders & Teams Take Home:
Custom engagements available for teams of any size, sector, or challenge. Contact us to explore what's possible.
A John Hagel keynote that reframes how your organization sees AI and change paired with a working session. Provides a shared language and practices for seeing opportunity, accelerating learning, and adopting new leadership methods in an age of AI-driven change.
Tailored off-site experiences that shift how your team thinks, decides, and learns together. Built around a real challenge you’re facing, so people leave with progress, not just inspiration.
Diagnostic, strategy, and execution support anchored in the Three Pillars and focused on concrete outcomes. Designed for leaders driving a specific transformation who want a partner through it.
One-on-one coaching for leaders navigating significant change. Anchored in the Three Pillars for a grounded, opportunity-focused structure for driving action and accelerating learning toward impact.
We help you stand up internal Impact Groups that fuel engagement and accelerate learning. Impact Groups are small, trust-based teams focused on at shared goal who through repeated experimentation, accelerate learning together.
Launch of internal supported Impact Group structure.
Sponsor a cohort of employees or leaders into the Center’s programs. The simplest way to give your people the full Three Pillars journey.
1. Gain understanding. A short conversation to understand your team, your challenge, and what success would look like.
2. Tailor options. We design the engagement around your people and your goal whether a keynote, retreat, consulting, or a combination.
3. Support. After the session, the support continues. Impact Groups and coaching support the sustained practices to keep momentum going.
Following on his insightful concepts of "Power of Pull" and "Edge Perspectives," John Hagel once again provides "revelational" inspiration through his "Personal Narrative" exercises.
John Callan, CEO, Ursa Major Associates
I thought the set up and small group format worked really well.
Looking forward to the next installment!
Jack Stephenson, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
The guidance and insights were powerful, the format was quite engaging and actionable on the spot, building new relationships in a safe environment.
I loved the openness in the group, 'purpose' felt more tangible.
Rod Aparicio, CEO, Brand Unstucker, Hesse Germany
Excellent content, and thoughtfully moderated, this workshop helps disentangle your inner psyche through artful and probing questions for personal and professional clarity.
It's like housekeeping
for your soul.
Lale Welsh, CEO, Neuromuscular Disease Foundation
l've never met a person who can share his vision and clarity like John Hagel.
He drove us in a magnificent route towards our own personal journey to discover, not only what can activate our passion, but to move us to act for good!! Knowledge, self-discovery and understanding, all these things that are necessary for us if we want to build a future together, a future that can start right now!
Inma Vaquero, Project Manager & Researcher on Circular Product Design and Innovation
John Hagel's workshop was outstanding. I came out of it with clarity, direction and motivation to push myself and my career to the next level.
Trisha Stezzi's support and guidance during the discussions were invaluable as it helped the group(s) open up and get the most from the work.
Tricia Russo, VP Marketing, Camelot Illinois; Former Chief Strategy Officer, DDB Chicago
In The Journey Beyond Fear, John Hagel masterfully draws on insights from his dynamic career in Silicon Valley and global consulting to demonstrate how institutions and individuals can beat fear and leverage optimism to create thoughtful social innovation. You will be glad you read this book.
Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and New York Times bestselling author
Fear often disrupts the potential to move people forward. John Hagel brilliantly shows us how to use the power of a good narrative to get over the fears that hold too many individuals and business teams back and prevent them from achieving more impact. This thoughtfully rich book is sure to be essential ready for anyone trying to lead forward.
Beth Comstock, author of Imagine It Forward, and former Vice Chair, General Electric
The global viral pandemic is mirrored by an epidemic of 'zero-sum' fears, false narratives, and plummeting social trust. In The Journey Beyond Fear, John Hagel offers an antidote: cultivating our passions within narratives engaging us with people, platforms, and purpose beyond ourselves. It's full of inspiring ideas for those feeling isolated in their working lives, and practical tips for those already tackling complex ecosystem challenges that our societies face.
Byron Auguste, CEO of Opportunity@Work, former National Economic Council Deputy Director and economic advisor to President Obama
Our mindsets are the most important tool we have as entrepreneurs and leaders, and they are powerfully shaped by the emotions within us. John Hagel's brilliant book The Journey Beyond Fear urges us to focus on our emotions and to recognize that fear is becoming a growing obstacle for many of use. Hagel masterfully guides us to shift our emotional energy into an Abundance Mindset, one that empowers us to solve problems and see them as opportunities rather than fear them.
Peter Diamandis, MD; Founder, Singularity University and XPRIZE; New York Times bestselling author of Abundance, BOLD, and The Future is Faster Thank You Think
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