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Agents of Change (How to find, influence and activate the people who make change happen)
| Expected release date is Jun 8th 2027 |
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Overview
Stop informing. Start activating. Most change efforts fail not because the idea was wrong, but because those ideas didn't reach the people with the power, passion and position in a way that motivated them to act. Agents of Change is for anyone working to make a difference - policymaker, researcher, campaigner, purpose-driven leader - who wants a clear, practical system for turning purpose into progress.
We are living through the next great reset. AI is rewriting the rules, reshaping who holds influence, how ideas spread, and what action even looks like. It is redrawing economies, disrupting work, reshaping how movements form and consensus builds. Alongside the productivity gains and new possibilities sit real costs: to jobs, to trust, to the planet and to who gets a seat at the table. The tools of influence are changing as fast as the challenges they must address, and the need for Agents of Change to make sure we fall on the right side of history has never been greater.
Built around the seven-stage Impact Framework, this book blends behavioural science, systems thinking and real-world case studies into a step-by-step guide that is as human as it is strategic. Drawing on decades of experience across economic development, social enterprise and systems change, Colin Bell shows how to find the right stakeholders, shape messages that resonate, and design the conditions that move people from passive interest to committed action.
Every chapter combines clear tools and templates with stories drawn from environmental movements and social justice campaigns, from Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement and the 2007 smoking ban to Surfers Against Sewage and place-based economic development programmes.
At a moment when the gap between evidence and action has never felt wider, and when the forces reshaping who has power and how change spreads have never moved faster, Agents of Change offers a human, evidence-informed roadmap for building the momentum that turns ambitious ideas into lasting impact and for making sure that momentum lands on the right side of history.
