ChangeNOW brings together tens of thousands of people working on the practical business of transition: founders, investors, policymakers, and the corporate leaders who have to make it all land inside real organisations. It is one of the few rooms where an ambitious idea and the operational reality of delivering it sit side by side.
IMAGINE Co-Founder and CEO Valerie Keller took to the stage as a jury member at DEBATABLE, the Kite Insights session that puts one of the most important questions in climate and business in front of an audience and lets it be properly argued rather than politely agreed with.
That format is close to how we work. IMAGINE was built on the belief that systems change happens when leaders are willing to be challenged in public, test their assumptions against people outside their own sector, and then act collectively rather than alone. Debate is not a distraction from delivery. It is how the sharper answer gets found.
Our thanks to Kite Insights for convening the session, to the fellow jurors and speakers who made the argument worth having, and to the IMAGINE Leaders who continue to carry these conversations back into their own businesses and boardrooms.
Systems change happens when leaders are willing to be challenged in public, and then act collectively rather than alone.