Being a developmental psychologist gives Robert Kegan a powerful perspective on the process of growth and change.
His developmental model envisions our growth as tied to an ever -greater capacity for differentiating our subjective experiences from our objective experiences. He presents these ideas in his book, The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development.

Discerning Heart: Developmental Psychology, by Philip Lewis is a brief and easily digested brief description of Robert Kegan’s unique developmental model of the self.

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow, applies Kegan’s developmental model to the change process. This book is profoundly clear in helping you define your deepest beliefs thereby allowing for behavioral change.

From the book, Immunity to Change:

“The most reliable route to ultimately disrupting the immunity to change system begins by identifying the core assumptions that sustain it. We use the concept of big assumptions to signal that there are some ways we understand ourselves and the world (and the relationship between the world and ourselves) that we do not see as mental constructions. Rather, we see them as truths, incontrovertible facts, accurate representations of how we and the world are. These constructions of reality are actually assumptions; they may well be true, but they also may not be. When we treat an assumption as if it is a truth, we have made it what we call a big assumption.”

The video, Robert Kegan and Immunity to Change, introduces his model of change. Specifically, this fifteen-minute video lecture outlines his four-column system used to help us access the assumptions that underlie our behaviors.

Robert Kegan has created a business coaching and organizational change program. Minds At Work is a business consulting organization through which overt Kegan provides coaching, workshops, and lectures based on his model of human development and change.