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Braden Kelley is a Human-Centered Experience, Innovation and Transformation consultant at HCL Technologies, a popular innovation speaker, and creator of the FutureHacking™ and Human-Centered Change™ methodologies. He is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons and Charting Change (Second Edition) from Palgrave Macmillan. Braden is a US Navy veteran and earned his MBA from top-rated London Business School. Follow him on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of December 2025

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of December 2025 Drum roll please…

At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are December’s ten most popular innovation posts:

Is OpenAI About to Go Bankrupt? — by Chateau G Pato
The Rise of Human-AI Teaming Platforms — by Art Inteligencia
11 Reasons Why Teams Struggle to Collaborate — by Stefan Lindegaard
How Knowledge Emerges — by Geoffrey Moore
Getting the Most Out of Quiet Employees in Meetings — by David Burkus
The Wood-Fired Automobile — by Art Inteligencia
Was Your AI Strategy Developed by the Underpants Gnomes? — by Robyn Bolton
Will our opinion still really be our own in an AI Future? — by Pete Foley
Three Reasons Change Efforts Fail — by Greg Satell
Do You Have the Courage to Speak Up Against Conformity? — by Mike Shipulski

BONUS – Here are five more strong articles published in November that continue to resonate with people:

Don’t Believe the Courageous Leadership Lie — by Robyn Bolton
Why 4D Printing is the Next Frontier of Human-Centered Change — by Art Inteligencia
Is There a Real Difference Between Leaders and Managers? — by David Burkus
Innovation Requires Defying Success — by Mike Shipulski
Leveraging the Power of Play to Innovate — by Janet Sernack

If you’re not familiar with Human-Centered Change & Innovation, we publish 4-7 new articles every week built around innovation and transformation insights from our roster of contributing authors and ad hoc submissions from community members. Get the articles right in your Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin feeds too!

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Human-Centered Change & Innovation is open to contributions from any and all innovation and transformation professionals out there (practitioners, professors, researchers, consultants, authors, etc.) who have valuable human-centered change and innovation insights to share with everyone for the greater good. If you’d like to contribute, please contact me.

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Voting Open – Top 40 Innovation Authors of 2025

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Vote for Top 40 Innovation Authors Happy Holidays!

For more than a decade I’ve devoted myself to making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because I truly believe that the better our organizations get at deliveriseng value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be.

As a result, we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the time to create and share great innovation articles, presentations, white papers, and videos with Braden Kelley and the Human-Centered Change and Innovation team. As a small thank you to those of you who follow along, we like to make a list of the Top 40 Innovation Authors available each year!

Our lists from the ten previous years have been tremendously popular, including:

Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2016
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2018
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2019
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2020
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2022
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2023
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2024

Do you just have someone that you like to read that writes about innovation, or some of the important adjacencies – trends, consumer psychology, change, leadership, strategy, behavioral economics, collaboration, or design thinking?

Human-Centered Change and Innovation is now looking to recognize the Top 40 Innovation Authors of 2025.

It is time to vote and help us narrow things down.

The deadline for submitting votes is December 31, 2025 at midnight GMT.

The ranking will be done by me with influence from votes and nominations. The quality and quantity of contributions to this web site by an author will be a BIG contributing factor (through the end of the voting period).

You can vote in any of these three ways (and each earns points for them, so please feel free to vote all three ways):

Sending us the name of the author by @reply on twitter to @innovate
Adding the name of the author as a comment to this article’s posting on Facebook
Adding the name of the author as a comment to this article’s posting on our Linkedin Page (Be sure and follow us)

The official Top 40 Innovation Authors of 2025 will then be announced here in early January 2026.

Here are the people who received nominations this year along with some carryover recommendations (in alphabetical order):

Adi Gaskell – @adigaskell
Alain Thys
Alex Goryachev
Andy Heikkila – @AndyO_TheHammer
Annette Franz
Arlen Meyers – @sopeofficial
Art Inteligencia
Ayelet Baron
Braden Kelley – @innovate
Brian Miller
Bruce Fairley
Chad McAllister – @ChadMcAllister
Chateau G Pato
Chris Beswick
Chris Rollins
Dr. Detlef Reis
Dainora Jociute
Dan Blacharski – @Dan_Blacharski
Daniel Burrus – @DanielBurrus
Daniel Lock
David Burkus
Dean and Linda Anderson
Dennis Stauffer
Diana Porumboiu
Douglas Ferguson
Drew Boyd – @DrewBoyd
Frank Mattes – @FrankMattes
Geoffrey A Moore
Gregg Fraley – @greggfraley
Greg Satell – @Digitaltonto
Helen Yu
Howard Tiersky
Janet Sernack – @JanetSernack
Jeffrey Baumgartner – @creativejeffrey
Jeff Freedman – @SmallArmyAgency
Jeffrey Phillips – @ovoinnovation
Jesse Nieminen – @nieminenjesse
John Bessant
Jorge Barba – @JorgeBarba
Julian Birkinshaw – @JBirkinshaw
Julie Anixter – @julieanixter
Kate Hammer – @Kate_Hammer
Kevin McFarthing – @InnovationFixer
Leo Chan
Lou Killeffer – @LKilleffer
Manuel Berdoy

Mari Anixter- @MariAnixter
Maria Paula Oliveira – @mpaulaoliveira
Matthew E May – @MatthewEMay
Michael Graber – @SouthernGrowth
Mike Brown – @Brainzooming
Mike Shipulski – @MikeShipulski
Mukesh Gupta
Nick Jain
Nick Partridge – @KnewNewNeu
Nicolas Bry – @NicoBry
Nicholas Longrich
Norbert Majerus and George Taninecz
Pamela Soin
Patricia Salamone
Paul Hobcraft – @Paul4innovating
Paul Sloane – @paulsloane
Pete Foley – @foley_pete
Rachel Audige
Ralph Christian Ohr – @ralph_ohr
Randy Pennington
Richard Haasnoot – @Innovate2Grow
Robert B Tucker – @RobertBTucker
Robyn Bolton – @rm_bolton
Saul Kaplan – @skap5
Shep Hyken – @hyken
Shilpi Kumar
Scott Anthony – @ScottDAnthony
Scott Bowden – @scottbowden51
Shelly Greenway – @ChiefDistiller
Soren Kaplan – @SorenKaplan
Stefan Lindegaard – @Lindegaard
Stephen Shapiro – @stephenshapiro
Steve Blank
Steven Forth – @StevenForth
Tamara Kleinberg – @LaunchStreet
Teresa Spangler – @composerspang
Tom Koulopoulos – @TKspeaks
Tullio Siragusa
Yoram Solomon – @yoram

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We’re curious to see who you think is worth reading!

Nominations Open – Top 40 Innovation Authors of 2025

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Human-Centered Change and Innovation loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be.

Our lists from the ten previous years have been tremendously popular, including:

Do you have someone that you like to read that writes about innovation, or some of the important adjacencies – trends, consumer psychology, change, leadership, strategy, behavioral economics, collaboration, or design thinking?

Human-Centered Change and Innovation is now looking for the Top 40 Innovation Authors of 2025.

The deadline for submitting nominations is December 24, 2025 at midnight GMT.

You can submit a nomination either of these two ways:

Sending us the name of the author and the url of their blog by @reply on twitter to @innovate
Sending the name of the author and the url of their blog and your e-mail address using our contact form

(Note: HUGE bonus points for being a contributing author)

So, think about who you like to read and let us know by midnight GMT on December 24, 2025.

We will then compile a voting list of all the nominations, and publish it on December 25, 2025.

Voting will then be open from December 25, 2025 – January 1, 2026 via comments and twitter @replies to @innovate.

The ranking will be done by me with influence from votes and nominations. The quality and quantity of contributions by an author to this web site will be a contributing factor.

Contact me with writing samples if you’d like to publish your articles on our platform!

The official Top 40 Innovation Authors of 2025 will then be announced on here in early January 2026.

We’re curious to see who you think is worth reading!

SPECIAL BONUS: From now until December 31, 2025 you can get either the hardcover or softcover of my latest best-selling book Charting Change (free shipping worldwide) for only £/$/€ 23.99 (~36% OFF).

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FLASH SALE – 50% off THE Human-Centered Change Guidebook

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48 hours only!

Exciting news!

The publisher of my second book – Charting Change – is having a 48-hour FLASH SALE and so you can get the hardcover, softcover or the eBook for 50% off the list price using CODE FLSH50 until December 5, 2025, 11:59PM EDT. The new second edition includes loads of new content including additional guest expert sections and chapters on business architecture, project and portfolio management, and digital and business transformations!

I stumbled across this and wanted to share with everyone so if you haven’t already gotten a copy of this book to power your digital transformation or your latest project or change initiative to success, now you have no excuse!

Click here to get your copy of Charting Change for 50% off using CODE FLSH50

Of course you can get 10 free tools here from the book, but if you buy the book and contact me I will send you 26 free tools from the 50+ tools in the Change Planning Toolkit™ – including the Change Planning Canvas™!

*If discount is not applied automatically, please use this code: FLSH50. The discount is available through December 5, 2025. This offer is valid for English-language Springer, Palgrave & Apress books & eBooks. The discount is redeemable on link.springer.com only. Titles affected by fixed book price laws, forthcoming titles, and titles temporarily not available on link.springer.com are excluded from this promotion, as are reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, subscriptions, or bulk purchases. The currency in which your order will be invoiced depends on the billing address associated with the payment method used, not necessarily your home currency. Regional VAT/tax may apply. Promotional prices may change due to exchange rates.

This offer is valid for individual customers only. Booksellers, book distributors, and institutions such as libraries and corporations, please visit springernature.com/contact-us. This promotion does not work in combination with other discounts or gift cards.

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of November 2025

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of November 2025 Drum roll please…

At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are November’s ten most popular innovation posts:

Eight Types of Innovation Executives — by Stefan Lindegaard
Is There a Real Difference Between Leaders and Managers? — by David Burkus
1,000+ Free Innovation, Change and Design Quotes Slides — by Braden Kelley
The AI Agent Paradox — by Art Inteligencia
74% of Companies Will Die in 10 Years Without Business Transformation — by Robyn Bolton
The Unpredictability of Innovation is Predictable — by Mike Shipulski
How to Make Your Employees Thirsty — by Braden Kelley
Are We Suffering from AI Confirmation Bias? — by Geoffrey A. Moore
How to Survive the Next Decade — by Robyn Bolton
It’s the Customer Baby — by Braden Kelley

BONUS – Here are five more strong articles published in October that continue to resonate with people:

The Great American Contraction – Population, Scarcity, and the New Era of Human Value — by Art Inteligencia
Four Pillars of Innovation — by Mike Shipulski
The Voicebots are Coming — by Braden Kelley
The Future of Humanity in an Artificially Intelligent World — by Greg Satell
Measuring Human vs. AI Satisfaction — by Braden Kelley

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Achieve Transformational Success with ‘Charting Change’

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Save Until November 30, 2025 on the Softcover and eBook

📢 Attention Change Agents: Master the Art of Transformation with Charting Change!

As a Human-Centered Change and Innovation professional, I’ve seen firsthand how often brilliant initiatives falter because they neglect the most critical element: the people. That’s why I created the Human-Centered Change methodology and the Change Planning Canvas™ — a collaborative, visual approach to making change stick.

I’m thrilled to announce that the Second Edition of my best-selling book, Charting Change: A Visual Toolkit for Making Change Stick, is now available for the incredibly low price of just $17.99 for the softcover (FREE shipping worldwide) and eBook versions directly from my publisher! Don’t miss this opportunity to acquire an essential toolkit that will transform how you lead.

🛠️ Your Benefits: A New and Expanded Toolkit for Success

The Second Edition isn’t just a reprint; it’s a major expansion, born from user feedback and the accelerating pace of today’s business environment. When you grab your copy, you are investing in a comprehensive, practical guide that will help you beat the painful 70% change failure rate.

1. Expanded Coverage on Critical Modern Topics

I’ve added four new chapters to equip you for the complex, interconnected challenges of the 21st-century organization:

Architecting for Change: Learn how organizational design and business architecture work together to create a flexible, resilient structure, rather than just forcing change onto a rigid system.
Systems Thinking: Understand that change doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You’ll gain a holistic view of your organization as a complex system, allowing you to anticipate and manage ripple effects.
Digital Transformation: Get a clear roadmap for executing successful digital shifts that are human-centered—focusing on customer and employee experience, not just the technology.
Building a Continuous Change Culture: Move beyond one-off projects and discover how to hard-wire organizational agility into your DNA, making your company a learning machine ready for the future.

Change Planning Canvas

2. Access to the Core Change Planning Toolkit

Every book purchase grants you a complimentary Basic License to the Change Planning Toolkit™! This is invaluable, providing you with access to 26 of my 70+ frameworks and visual tools as downloadable, large-format PDFs, including:

The Change Planning Canvas™: A single, collaborative visual tool that gets everyone literally on the same page for discussing and planning the variables that influence your change effort.
Visual Guides and Worksheets: Practical, easy-to-use frameworks to visualize the current state, envision the desired state, identify benefits, and segment your audience.

3. Practical, Collaborative, and Visual Execution

Charting Change is designed to be a field guide, not a theoretical text. You will learn how to:

Drive Buy-in and Alignment: Use visual, collaborative techniques to draw out hidden assumptions and landmines early, ensuring stakeholders are aligned and committed.
Measure and Manage Readiness: Employ new visual tools, like the Organizational Agility Framework, to effectively assess your team’s and organization’s readiness for change and transition.
Overcome Resistance: Learn practical strategies for identifying and working with the people side of change, turning passive resistors into active supporters.
Build a Common Language: Establish a shared vocabulary and vision for change implementation across your entire organization, increasing the likelihood of success.

For less than the price of lunch, you can acquire the blueprint for successful, human-centered change. Stop betting on the 30% chance of success and start charting your path to transformation today!

Ready to transform your organization and your career?

📢 Grab your softcover or eBook copy of the Second Edition of Charting Change now for just $17.99 with FREE shipping worldwide included!

*This offer is valid for selected English-language Springer, Palgrave & Apress selected softcover books & eBooks. The discount is redeemable on link.springer.com only. Titles affected by fixed book price laws, forthcoming titles, and titles temporarily not available on link.springer.com are excluded from this promotion, as are reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, subscriptions, or bulk purchases. This promotion applies exclusively to selected titles with a list price of up to £/$/€/₣80. The currency in which your order will be invoiced depends on the billing address associated with the payment method used, not necessarily your home currency. Regional VAT/tax may apply. Promotional prices may change due to exchange rates.

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of October 2025

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of October 2025 Drum roll please…

At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are October’s ten most popular innovation posts:

AI, Cognitive Obesity and Arrested Development — by Pete Foley
Making Decisions in Uncertainty – This 25-Year-Old Tool Actually Works — by Robyn Bolton
The Marketing Guide for Humanity’s Next Chapter – How AI Changes Your Customers — by Braden Kelley
Don’t Make Customers Do These Seven Things They Hate — by Shep Hyken
Why Best Practices Fail – Five Questions with Ellen DiResta — by Robyn Bolton
The Need for Organizational Learning — by Mike Shipulski
You Must Accept That People Are Irrational — by Greg Satell
The AI Innovations We Really Need — by Art Inteligencia
Three Reasons You Are Not Happy at Work – And What to Do to Become as Happy as You Could Be — by Stefan Lindegaard
The Nuclear Fusion Accelerator – How AI is Commercializing Limitless Power — by Art Inteligencia

BONUS – Here are five more strong articles published in September that continue to resonate with people:

McKinsey is Wrong That 80% Companies Fail to Generate AI ROI — by Robyn Bolton
The Most Challenging Obstacles to Achieving Artificial General Intelligence — by Art Inteligencia
The Great American Contraction – Population, Scarcity, and the New Era of Human Value — by Art Inteligencia
Three Steps from Stuck to Success – Managing Uncertainty — by Robyn Bolton
Building a Learning Organization — by Stefan Lindegaard

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of September 2025

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of September 2025 Drum roll please…

At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are September’s ten most popular innovation posts:

McKinsey is Wrong That 80% Companies Fail to Generate AI ROI — by Robyn Bolton
Back to Basics for Leaders and Managers — by Robyn Bolton
Growth is Not the Answer — by Mike Shipulski
The Most Challenging Obstacles to Achieving Artificial General Intelligence — by Art Inteligencia
Charlie Kirk and Innovation — by Art Inteligencia
You Just Got Starbucked — by Braden Kelley
Metaphysics Philosophy — by Geoffrey Moore
Invention Through Co-Creation — by Janet Sernack
Sometimes Ancient Wisdom Needs to be Left Behind — by Greg Satell
The Crisis Innovation Trap — by Braden Kelley and Art Inteligencia

BONUS – Here are five more strong articles published in August that continue to resonate with people:

This AI Creativity Trap is Gutting Your Growth — by Robyn Bolton
How Neuromorphic Computing Will Unlock Human-Centered Innovation — by Art Inteligencia
Why Context Engineering is the Next Frontier in AI — by Braden Kelley and Art Inteligencia
The Nordic Way of Leadership in Business — by Stefan Lindegaard
Three Strategies for Overcoming Change Resistance — by Greg Satell

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P.S. Here are our Top 40 Innovation Bloggers lists from the last four years:

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FLASH SALE – 50% off the best book for Planning Change & Transformation

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48 hours only!

Exciting news!

The publisher of my second book – Charting Change – is having a 24-hour FLASH SALE and so you can get the hardcover, softcover or the eBook for 50% off the list price using CODE 50FLSH until October 3, 2025, 11:59PM EDT. The new second edition includes loads of new content including additional guest expert sections and chapters on business architecture, project and portfolio management, and digital and business transformations!

Click here to get your copy of Charting Change for 50% off using CODE 50FLSH

*If discount is not applied automatically, please use this code: 50FLSH. The discount is available through October 3, 2025. This offer is valid for English-language Springer, Palgrave & Apress books & eBooks. The discount is redeemable on link.springer.com only. Titles affected by fixed book price laws, forthcoming titles and titles temporarily not available on link.springer.com are excluded from this promotion, as are reference works, handbooks, encyclopedias, subscriptions, or bulk purchases. The currency in which your order will be invoiced depends on the billing address associated with the payment method used, not necessarily your home currency. Regional VAT/tax may apply. Promotional prices may change due to exchange rates.

This offer is valid for individual customers only. Booksellers, book distributors, and institutions such as libraries and corporations please visit springernature.com/contact-us. This promotion does not work in combination with other discounts or gift cards.

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of August 2025

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of August 2025 Drum roll please…

At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?

But enough delay, here are August’s ten most popular innovation posts: