Nikola Ilić
Co-facilitator · Leadership Professor at Georgetown University
He is the founder of ChangeLab, a Leadership Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and the author of the forthcoming book The Uncertainty Advantage. Over 20 years, he has trained thousands of leaders across 30+ countries — at the Obama Foundation, UNICEF, the World Bank, U.S. Government agencies, and Fortune 500 teams — and coaches executives, founders, and senior officials navigating transformation, scaling, and high-stakes change.
His methodology, Collective Intelligence Leadership, was forged in environments where the stakes were real and the outcomes measurable. It began in his teenage years as an activist — learning to navigate uncertainty alongside other activists, dissidents, journalists, founders, and movement builders — was refined through co-founding four organizations and four companies across Europe and the United States, and has been tested with the world's most demanding institutions and leaders.
He holds a master's degree from Harvard University and lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two daughters.
Pedja Stojicic, MD, MPH
Co-facilitator · Instructor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Pedja teaches two courses in the DrPH Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — Enabling Teams and Enabling Large System Change. He is passionate about enabling leaders to use community organizing practices to advocate for equitable health and well-being, and currently serves as executive lead for People Power Health.
He has worked with CMS, the Center for Public Health Leadership, Primary Care Progress, Way to Wellville, the Healthcare Anchor Network, and many others. Earlier, he was president and executive director of Youth of JAZAS, a Serbian NGO fighting HIV/AIDS, and a consultant to the Serbian Ministry of Health on healthcare financing reform.
Pedja completed a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School studying Leadership and Organizing with Prof. Marshall Ganz, and later joined Ganz's HKS teaching team. A life-long activist, he serves on the advisory board of the Leading Change Network, one of the largest global networks of social movement leaders.
