John Lewis, Ed.D., leads the Center for Story Thinking. His work brings together the narrative and rational views of the mind into a unified model of how people create meaning. He is a keynote speaker and transformational coach for change, learning, and leadership. He has authored the books, “The Explanation Age” (beyond the information age) and “Story Thinking” (beyond storytelling). John is on the advisory board with the Lifeboat Foundation, a member of IIKI (International Institute for Knowledge and Innovation), and an associate editor for Leadership and Organizational Behavior with the Journal of Innovation Management. John has worked for several leading global organizations and his career highlights include launching GPS satellites and being recognized by Gartner with an industry Best Practice paper for a KM implementation. John holds a Doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California, with a dissertation focus on mental models and decision making. His unified model of change represents the fundamental structure of stories, and encompasses a majority of earlier models, including Kahneman, Kolb, Kotter, and Kubler-Ross. It solves for the “fragmentation” problem described by Peter Senge, and fulfills on the quote by W. Edwards Deming: “We will never transform the prevailing system of management without transforming our prevailing system of education. They are the same system.”

About the Center for Story Thinking

The Center

The Center for Story Thinking is a project of Explanation Age LLC. It explores what happens when we see the narrative mind and the rational mind working together. Our focus is on individuals first: helping people notice how they think, learn, and grow. From there, we apply the same model to leadership, innovation, healthcare, and AI.

John Lewis, Ed.D.