Past event
Thursday, May 22, 2025
10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET
Complimentary for CBHL Members
$50 for Non-CBHL Members
In today’s rapidly changing landscape, successfully implementing innovations and strategic initiatives requires more than just good ideas—it demands a keen understanding of the forces that will help or hinder your success. This practical webinar introduces participants to an adapted approach to Kurt Lewin’s Force Field Analysis, a powerful diagnostic tool that helps leaders objectively assess the driving and restraining forces affecting their strategic directions.
Whether you’re launching a new project, implementing organizational change, or advancing an innovative idea, understanding the human dynamics at play can mean the difference between success and failure. Through real-world examples and interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to systematically map out the individuals and factors supporting or opposing your initiatives, allowing you to develop more effective implementation strategies.
Key Learning Objectives
- Become familiar with an adapted approach to Lewin’s Force Field Analysis and how it can be applied to modern organizational challenges
- Learn how to use Force Field Analysis to objectively identify and assess who supports or opposes your innovations or projects—and more importantly, understand their motivations
- Receive a comprehensive outline template for conducting your own Force Field Analysis, enabling immediate application to your current strategic initiatives
Who Should Attend
This webinar is ideal for executives, managers, project leaders, change agents, and anyone responsible for implementing strategic initiatives or driving innovation within their organization.
Meet the Speaker
Fran Silvestri, MBA, recently left the role as founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Leadership Exchange (GLE), formerly the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL) and International Initiative for Disability Leadership (IIDL), which he helped organize in 2003. GLE is jointly funded by ten countries, to build partnerships between mental health leaders in order to rapidly exchange knowledge of best and promising practices internationally.
Before his work with GLE (formerly IIMHL), Fran was CEO of Monadnock Family Services (MFS) in Keene, NH. In this role he looked internationally to identify, and then replicate, innovative services that promote recovery and social inclusion for consumers of mental health services.
Such services have included the Wyman Way Cooperative, an independent, non-profit corporation managed and operated by consumers of mental health services (based on the Trieste model). He was a founder of a state wide Integrated MH network in New Hampshire owned by six hospitals, 10 MH centers and the largest physician practice in the state.
Through his work with GLE, he has assisted in building international collaborations resulting in the rapid transfer of innovations and creative practices from one country to another.
The unique week long GLE Leadership Exchange is held every two years and is a unique global experience for key MH leaders to meet international colleagues, share knowledge and build partnerships. GLE also has facilitated a series of ongoing collaborations on specific topics and has partnered with the WHO on their Special Initiative working with 10 low and middle income countries to link key national mental health leaders to support developments.