In ordinary circumstances, organizational change can be an overwhelming prospect. Yet today, as we continue to face the unprecedented challenges of a global pandemic, change may seem especially difficult to consider.

The advent and fallout of the global pandemic have vastly altered the rhythms of the modern workforce. And yet while businesses of today are marching onward into a new world, one thing has remained unchanged: the crucial and universal need for a soft skilled workforce.

When exceptional leadership is discussed, luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Henry Ford or Elon Musk are often brought to the forefront. Given the obstacles we are facing today, we should certainly expect both genius and tenacity to be critical assets of leaders in the best and worst of times.

Innovation, as a skill, is not solely reserved for the realm of adults. From a young age, we are all presented with a plethora of thorny issues, and without knowing it, we develop our own unique processes for resolving and innovating around them.

English novelist Mary Shelley once said, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”