Large-scale change consists of transformational actions to bring about more desirable outcomes in your community. It is about making vast changes in your community and partnering with people to identify problems together. You are considering extensive shifts in systems, processes, or patterns of outcomes. In my former role at the Bush Foundation, I coached prospective Bush Fellows to understand the difference between working within the system and working on remodeling the system.

Questions open the mind to think bigger and differently. You must be grounded in why you show up to lead and get comfortable interrogating your values, identity, culture, and experiences, all of which profoundly and perpetually shape your vision. Without deep introspection, you risk relying on old, broken patterns to solve problems, risk working within broken systems instead of working to change them, and potentially miss the opportunity to maximize your leadership capacity. In my former role at the Bush Foundation, I advised prospective Bush Fellows to welcome questions as the product of investigative inquiry.