Dr. Alan Bostakian, PhD, is a Canadian change leadership scholar and crisis management strategist. He is the founder of the Change Management Think Tank and an advisor to (and a project team member of) the Iran Prosperity Project under Prince Reza Pahlavi's leadership. He advocates for regime-change in Iran, the Cyrus Accord vision, promotes Iranian–Jewish collaboration, and applies change leadership and crisi management.
Alan has held senior consulting roles with the large Canadian organizations. He holds a Doctorate degree in Management, both Certified and Master level Change Management Professional designations (CCMP and MCMP), • Certified ISO 22361 Crisis Management Specialist designation, and advanced certifications from leading institutions, including Harvard (Strategy Execution for Public Leadership, and Crisis Management), MIT (Change Leadership), Stanford (Project Management Mastery), Columbia (Crisis Resource Management), Johns Hopkins (Executive Data Science), Cambridge (Supply Chain Management), and the United Nations (Risk-informed Governance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience). He is the author of two published books (Change Excellence Officer in 2024, and Crisis–Reconstruction–Change in 2026). Alan is a recipient of the Ontario Attorney General’s 2025 Victim Services Award of Distinction (Canada), and has shared his knowledge in change management, crisis management, and reconstruction widely by speaking at international conferences.
