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Ty, good afternoon, everybody. My name again is Thais Holman. I'm a professor in change management, but I am what we call a critical scientist. So my opening sentence would be, the more you try to manage change, the more it comes to a halt. That is my basic principle. And the second one is that a lot of change in organizations is going on in spite of change management. So I'm a very critical scientist trying to not to go along with the hypes, but really look beneath the surface about what is going on in organizations.

So first, let me show the way I was announced on internet. Apparently, I am going to talk about how schools can transform smoothly, and that is exactly what I am not going to talk about, because this assumes that there is a change which is needed, and there is someone managing the change, and that someone is managing the change in such a way that it is going to be smoothly. And the dream of managers is, of course, that people are changing without them knowing it. Yeah, that's the ideal. But I think Change is never smoothly, nor can it be managed. So that's what I going to talk about. I don't think it's relevant, and don't expect all kinds of solutions about how to change people in organizations, because I think that is not the reality what is going on in schools and organization.