In today’s world of rapidly changing complexity we are faced with many emerging challenges, where existing societal patterns rub up against new thinking. A lot of times these raise ethical or moral concerns. Many of the challenges are new to humanity, organizations and their leaders, often leaving them with no solutions. The hope for our future is through innovation and creativity that will enable us to adapt and evolve to new levels of thinking and action. Social science theory and praxis tells us that embracing diversity is key to creativity and innovation. In organizations it is paramount that we listen to differences, differences that offer a diversity in perspectives on how to approach challenges. The empathy walk assignment is a social experiment that gives you an opportunity and a tool to gain insight to tapping into diversity through an empathetic and dialogic approach. Learning and using the four elements of dialogue are key to performing this assignment. Directions: You will challenge yourself to go push yourself out of your ‘culture box’ and speak to someone you do not know, and someone you normally would not approach and talk with. You will attempt to have at least a one-hour dialogue/conversation (not an interview) with this individual; the topic is totally up to your discretion. Use the four elements of dialogue that are shared in the first lecture (week 2) to set up the converse
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