Henry F. De Sio, Jr.

CHANGEMAKER PLAYBOOK: The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change (Nicholas Brealey, March 30, 2021) is the definitive leadership handbook for individuals and organizations in our world of dynamic, disruptive change.

Rooted in empathy-based ethics and co-creative teamwork, CHANGEMAKER PLAYBOOK is the new playbook for a transformed strategic landscape in which change is the only constant, broken down into three sections:

The New Game— Our one-leader-at-a-time past has given way to a present reality where everyone has the potential to lead in every aspect of life, creating the imperative for a new playbook for commanding a world of explosive change;
What You Need to Know to Play— The new premium today is the capacity for creating empathy-driven change by tearing down walls and bringing people together around the unique challenges and opportunities of our time;
Framework Change— The new organizational framework requires systems and ways of working that value dignity over status and everyone as a full contributor, while also preparing our young people uniquely for today’s complex world.

CHANGEMAKER PLAYBOOK shares lessons learned from leading changemakers in business, social entrepreneurship, media and education. It is the much-needed guide for thriving and confidently commanding this new game defined by explosive change.

CAMPAIGN INC.: How Leadership and Organization Propelled Barack Obama to the White House (University of Iowa Press, September 1, 2014) offers lessons from the campaign trail on winning and success that are invaluable for innovators, entrepreneurs, and executives across sectors.

It takes more than an excellent candidate to win elections; it takes an outstanding organization, too. As the 2008 Chief Operating Officer of Obama’s historic presidential campaign, Henry F. De Sio, Jr. was positioned to view this historic moment as few others could. In this fascinating behind-the-scenes account, he whisks readers into Obama’s national election headquarters in Chicago to glimpse the decision-making processes and myriad details critical to running a successful and innovative presidential campaign.

From the campaign’s early chaos, to the jubilation and drama of winning the Iowa caucus, to the drawn-out Democratic nomination process, to Obama’s eventual election as president of the United States, De Sio guides readers through the challenges faced by the Obama for America campaign in its brief twenty-one-month lifespan. From De Sio’s laboratory, readers get lessons that are invaluable to their own leadership.

Bio

Honorable Henry F. De Sio, Jr. is known as the global ambassador for changemakers. A leadership advisor, campaign and organizational strategist, and social sector executive, he has led both startups and large, complex organizations. As the 2008 Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and then serving as Deputy Assistant to the President in the Obama White House, De Sio came to be intimately acquainted with a new emerging pattern of societal change. He has since followed his campaign-driven passion for hope and change to make changemaking a global phenomenon.

Henry’s new book, Changemaker Playbook: The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change, is packed with tips for individuals and organizations navigating the new strategic landscape defined by disruptive change. His perspectives on a range of societal issues are uniquely influenced by "The Changemaker Effect" — a term he coined to describe how rising citizen agency, coupled with dynamic technological advancements and the democratization of leadership, is driving explosive social change.

De Sio has been a guest television and radio commentator, and he has been a keynote speaker – including on C-SPAN's 2012 Road to the White House series. He offered the opening keynote to the Education Transforms International Symposium at the University of Tasmania, and he was a featured speaker at the Global Child Forum at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, by invitation of the King and Queen of Sweden. De Sio presented the closing keynote address at the 2014 Cities Summit hosted by Mayor Johnson at London City Hall. Henry has also been a panelist at the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, he headlined Ben & Jerry's "Making Dough & Making Change" Social Entrepreneurship Summit, and he was featured at the 2016 Asian Leadership Conference, in Seoul.

De Sio is a 2017 Rockefeller Bellagio Center Resident on "Youth as Agents of Transformative Change," a 2016 Bankinter Foundation Future Trends Forum Fellow on Harnessing the Power of Technology to Solve Inequality, and he was the first Visiting Scholar at the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment - University of Tasmania, in 2016.

For more on Henry, visit changemakerplaybook.com.

HENRY F. De SIO, JR.

HENRY F. De SIO, JR.

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