What I’m Learning About Public Health Leadership From My Sons’ Youth Football Program

At the Kansas Health Institute, our Transforming Public Health blog series is designed to cultivate a space for innovative ideas and voices that can create the conditions conducive to change in public health. We believe this approach supports change because it helps “unfreeze” peoples’ perceptions about what public health is and what is possible. Kurt Lewin, the founding expert on systems change says this “unfreezing’ is a requirement for change.​¹​ Other experts in change have referred to this state as “readiness for change​²​” or “a sense of urgency.​³​”

To foster innovation, many of the ideas in this blog series stem from disciplines outside of public health, such as business or public administration. However, recently I...