Lincoln Bleveans on Change Management as the New Leadership Superpower

The Human Connection Podcast · Jun 11, 2026 · 21m

"The only reason I can do what I do is because 100 other people do what they do — up and down and across the org chart." — Lincoln Bleveans

Your company just spent $400K on a new platform. Six months later, your team is working around it the same way they always did.

Lincoln Bleveans has watched this movie hundreds of times across nearly 30 years in global energy leadership — and now at Stanford, where he runs mission-critical operations at one of the world's most complex research institutions. The software isn't the problem. It never was. The problem is that you treated change management as…