Possibility Unleashed: Pathbreaking Lessons for Making Change Happen in Your Organization and Beyond

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Despite political polarization, individuals of different beliefs can still work together to solve common problems. Leaders must point the way and inspire by example.

Ivy League–trained experts who harbor strong, progressive beliefs and hail from the Northeast generally don’t befriend conservative pro-gun activists in the Intermountain West. They certainly don’t visit gun ranges and learn to shoot automatic weapons. But that’s precisely what Morissa Henn, former community health director at Intermountain, did during the summer of 2017.

As a graduate student in public health at Harvard, Henn wanted to do something about the plague of suicides afflicting the United States. Visiting Intermountain on an academic ...