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OUR PRINCIPLES

ChangeLabs operates at the unique intersection of industry, government and academia. We enable access to cutting-edge innovation practitioners and research experts.
 
Below are the philosophical tenents of our approach: 
 
  1. Innovative Paradigms: ChangeLabs strives for completely new, yet practical, strategies for driving large-scale change. Just as micro-finance has a new paradigm at the cross-roads of sociology and finance, ChangeLabs focuses on new paradigms at the intersection of behavioral economics, design thinking, and systems analysis.
      
  2. Transdisciplinary Collaborations: ChangeLabs combines fields to transcend current rubrics and create new epistemologies. For example, our Large Scale Energy Savings Project, involves academic departments across Stanford, electric utility companies, government agencies, startups, the local community and research labs, such as the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. These transdisciplinary collaborations serve as platforms for bold, real-world change initiatives requiring both broad and deep expertise. 
  3. Multi-modal Impact: ChangeLabs approaches challenges from multiple fronts to drive impact across societal needs, environmental sustainability, economics, and resilience of the broader ecosystem.
  4. Tranformative Leadership: ChangeLabs' methodologies and tools helps a new type of leader -- one who can seamlessly balance vision, ambiguity, innovation and implementation.  
  5. Ecologically-minded Systems: ChangeLabs views challenges as complex ecosystems defined by relationships and feedback loops between stakeholders as well as contextual extrinsic forces.