Change Leadership Series

The Leader’s Role in Change and Transformation Psychology Why Managing Change Is Different from Supporting Psychological Transition, and Why that Distinction Determines Transformation Success Why Everything You Know About Leading Change and Transformation Might Be Wrong You’ve done everything right. You crafted a compelling vision for the change or transformation effort. You built a detailed project plan with clear milestones. You communicated consistently and transparently. You managed stakeholder expectations and addressed some early resistance in your leadership team. Yet six…

Building Psychological Safety During Change and Transformation Why Change and Transformation Fail When Leaders Focus on Change Management While Ignoring the Psychological Safety That Makes Honest Struggle Possible The Meeting That Changed Everything Six months into a major digital transformation, a manufacturing company was quietly failing. Adoption rates stalled at 23%. Performance metrics declined. The best managers were updating their resumes. In meetings, everyone nodded and said the right things. In reality, nobody was using the new system. Then the…

Leading Through the Neutral Zone Why the Psychological Middle Ground of Transition Is Where Transformations Succeed or Fail, and How Leaders Can Navigate What William Bridges Called the Most Dangerous Phase of Change The Space Between What Was and What Will Be Every significant transformation includes a period that organizations rarely acknowledge and rarely plan for: the neutral zone. This is the psychological middle ground where the old way has definitively ended, but the new way isn’t fully functional yet…

Developing Change and Transformation Leadership Capability The Systematic Approach to Building Psychology-First Leadership Skills, How Leaders Develop the Capabilities to Support Psychological Transition, Measure Their Effectiveness, and Continuously Improve Their Ability to Lead Transformation Successfully The Capability Gap in Change Leadership Throughout this series, we’ve explored the psychological dimensions of change leadership: the distinction between change and transition, the importance of psychological safety, the authenticity paradox, navigating the neutral zone, supporting middle management, addressing competence crises, leading with measured vulnerability,…