Welcome to the Policy People Podcast. In this conversation, I dive into the digital disruption of leadership training with
Nikola Ilic. We discuss how he got addicted to activism as a young rebel in Yugoslavia, his vision to make leadership training universally accessible, how power changes people, the moral risks of public persuasion training, the tensions between chosen identities and tribalism, tribalism as a political tool, and many more topics.
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Nikola Ilic is the Co-Founder and CEO of
Change Lab, a consultancy that plans to deliver leadership development and coaching at scale to millions around the world. He is also a Co-Founder of
Serbia on the Move - a grassroots, citizen engagement NGO based in Serbia. Formerly, Nikola was an International Development Consultant and the World Bank Group and a teaching fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught the course ‘
Organizing: People, Power, Change’. You can discover his consultancy and its work at
changelab.global. You can also connect with Nikola on
LinkedIn, follow him on Twitter at the handle
@NikolaIlic7 or on Clubhouse at
@nikolailic7.
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