This workshop will explore different types of organizational cultures within public-sector agencies, how organizational culture influences decision-making, the relationship between culture and leadership, and strategies to successfully champion change. Participants will learn how to identify various types of resistance and how they can use different leadership styles as necessary to avoid or navigate opposition in change-averse agencies. The workshop will cover different types of resistance that may be encountered in public-sector organizations, along with strategies to engage and overcome roadblocks to new ideas and initiatives. The presenter, John Pope, will offer lessons from organizational literature and share some of his own experiences working as a journalist and public information professional in eight different organizations over a 30-year career.