"spearheading change" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to refer to someone pioneering a significant change, such as when a CEO leads a company to adopt new practices or strategies. For example, "The CEO has been spearheading change in the organization, introducing cost-saving measures and improving customer service."
He said that it is government, in fact, that has a critical role in leading and making laws to spearhead change.
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The World Heritage marine network has a unique opportunity to spearhead change on a global scale.
"This is a global trend that we see as many amazing chefs, both international and local, are opening businesses in Bali and spearheading positive change," he says.
Spearheading the change are shippers like Equipo Navazos, Tradición, Fernando de Castilla, El Maestro Sierra and Gutiérrez Colosia, which are making extraordinary and occasionally startling sherries that, unlike the big brands, have undergone minimal processing.
William Hague congratulated the Burmese government last week for its role in spearheading "remarkable changes" in the country.
In the two decades since it was formed, the Knight Commission, which includes several university presidents and trustees, has been credited with spearheading several changes in college athletics, including a sweeping set of academic reforms that were passed in 2004.
Others include President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, for spearheading socioeconomic changes in his country; President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan; and the Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, a reformer and university professor who is in prison in Iran.
Glover, a former chief counsel for advocacy at the Small Business Administration and a long-time champion of the SBIR program, has been spearheading the changes as executive director of the Small Business Technology Council in Washington, D.C.
On the serious side, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who has drawn both praise and criticism for spearheading dramatic changes aimed at doubling the number of women and minorities in the academy's ranks by 2020, spoke of the importance of extending opportunity to those who are underrepresented in the entertainment industry.
