Deborah Rowland

Deborah ROWLAND is a leading thinker, speaker, writer, coach and practitioner in the leadership of large complex change. She has devoted her three-decade plus career to the study, practice and dissemination of effective ways to lead true transformation that takes individuals, teams, organisations and indeed whole societal systems to a genuinely new place.

2017 Thinkers50 Radar named Deborah as one of the generation of management thinkers changing the world of business, and she made the 2021 HR Most Influential Thinker list. Deborah is the co-author with Professor Malcolm Higgs of Sustaining Change: Leadership That Works (Wiley, 2008), and author of the best-seller Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change (Wiley, 2017) and the Still Moving Field Guide: Change Vitality at Your Fingertips (Wiley 2020. Her latest book, From Ought to Is: Catalysing Change and Movement in a Polarised World, will be published in August 2025.

Deborah has led change in major global organisations, such as Royal Dutch Shell, Gucci Group, BBC Worldwide and PepsiCo. She also founded and grew a consulting firm that pioneered original research in the field, the latest efforts of which were accepted as a paper at the 2016 Academy of Management and at the 2019 European Academy of Management.

Alongside her change consulting work at Still Moving to CEOs and senior leaders around the world, Deborah writes and speaks extensively on the topic of leading successful change and has taught at schools such as Tuck School of Business, Imperial College Business School, Henley Management College, and Bath Management School.