Helena Demuynck

Every year, organizations spend billions of dollars and extraordinary amounts of time trying to improve their people’s capabilities. There is an endless parade of development programs, personal improvement plans, leadership training, performance reviews, and executive coaching journeys. So I guess we can say that we are optimistic about the prospects for personal change. And yet, whenever we have more confidential conversations, we hear things like: “Let’s face it, people don’t really change much. By the time someone is thirty-five, he is who he is. You can hope for little adjustments around the margins, but that’s all there is…”