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Start leading positive change from wherever you are.

The Class: Becoming a Changemaker

Alex teaches undergraduate, graduate, MBA, and executive students how to become the kinds of leaders our world needs: changemakers. 

What you’ll Learn

Changemaker Mindset

Crucial traits and attributes for leading change, all of which are learnable, practicable, and immediately applicable, including resilience, empathy, adaptability, courage, and curiosity.

Changemaker Leadership

Skills to lead from wherever you are and to catalyze positive change for teams, companies, and communities alike.

Changemaker Action

With inspiration from diverse changemakers and guest speakers across sectors and roles, you’ll create a hands-on changemaker project, applying everything you’ve learned in class to go lead positive change.

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Courses

Please get in touch with any questions or to introduce yourself; I love hearing from students (past, present and future)!

  • 15 weeks / 2 units

    In a world that is rapidly changing before our eyes, learn to navigate, shape and lead positive change for yourself and others and gain leadership skills to thrive amidst uncertainty.

    Anchored in change leadership and bringing together the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, and social impact, the courses focus on helping you move from ideas to action. Grounded in research and case studies of what makes change happen, “Becoming a Changemaker” teaches you how to identify opportunities for and create positive change at an individual, organizational, and societal level. It teaches you to become a changemaker: able and ready to lead change, not just be led by it.

    UC Berkeley students can enroll in “Becoming a Changemaker” offered as UGBA 159.

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  • 2 Units / 10 weeks

    Course Overview

    Designed similarly to the Undergraduate course, this course is useful for anyone whose success depends on thriving in a highly-dynamic environment and who would benefit from learning fresh leadership skills and how to make change work for you and your team. Alumni of the course have commented that it’s especially helpful for new managers, intrapreneurs, those leading (or seeking to lead) agile teams, product owners, and leaders who work cross-functionally.

    UC Berkeley students can enroll in “Becoming a Changemaker” offered as FTMBA & EWMBA 259.

  • 60, 90 & 180 minute workshops and talks, plus custom full-day and multi-day programs

    Program Overview

    In a fast-changing world, how can we learn to navigate, shape, and lead change in our organizations? These executive-level courses are for emerging leaders and executives and teaches them how to develop changemaker mindsets, leadership, and action strategies. Topics include smart risk-taking, 21st-century leadership, intrapreneurship, inclusive leadership, questioning the status quo, and many more.

    I’m honored to be a member of Berkeley Executive Education’s faculty team as a lecturer and faculty director and would love to work with you.

    Contact Alex for more information and to discuss how we can customize a changemaker program for you and your team!

Guest Speakers

One of the greatest joys of teaching Becoming a Changemaker is the opportunity to invite changemakers of all kinds who inspire me to speak with and meet students. I am fortunate to have this changemaking platform and I intend to use it to lift up the stories of a diverse array of changemakers doing all kinds of incredible, impactful work. I absolutely love when students can see a bit of themselves in one of our amazing guests and they realize that they, too, can become a changemaker.

We’re all in the pursuit of positive change together. I am exceedingly grateful to these friends who have joined us as guests:

What Students are Saying

Changemaking is a team sport, and Becoming a Changemaker is all about community.

What’s it like being in class? Read about students’ experiences below and check out recent official student feedback here.

In the News.

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Finding the Changemakers of Tomorrow

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Empowering undergrads to be changemakers

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How this UC Berkeley Professor Teaches People to Become Changemakers