How we do things is as important as what we do.

Traditional approaches to change management can actually increase resistance to change instead of lessening it. When employee cynicism develops, it becomes another significant barrier to innovation.

In order to increase a group’s change-readiness, we need to rebuild trust and momentum.  It’s not overall strategy that shapes the culture of change within our organization, it’s our day-to-day actions.

Dr. Patrick Farrell developed, tested and refined this inclusive approach to build trust and change-capacity while serving as a university provost.  It’s practical and effective.

Pat and I are now using his approach to support leaders interested in building change capacity at their own organizations.

Increased change capacity looks like:

  • Current initiatives go more smoothly
  • Future initiatives become more ambitious
  • Organizational culture becomes more inclusive

Advance a change-project you’re already working on.

Your project can be big or small, at any point in the process of planning or implementation.

Program Activities

  • Four weekly 90-minute zoom calls
  • Homework activities that help you advance one of your current or future change projects
  • Opportunity to add a coaching package to augment your project’s progress

If this sounds right for you, we’d love to work with you.

Ready for Changing: Winter 2024

Weekly 90-minute meetings over one month

$1000 per person

Team Rates Available

Enrollment Opens in 2024

The Ready for Changing Approach

Make your project more successful and future projects easier.

The Change Capacity Process

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Collaborators

C-Suite Creator

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Dr. Patrick Farrell developed this approach while working in the C-suite. Over 11 years, his innovative approach allowed the organization he led to take on very large change efforts successfully. Those large successes were based on a large chain of smaller, capacity-building efforts that he and Katherine are now teaching as Ready for Changing.

Work Systems & Human Factors Expert

I’m Katherine Sanders, a long-time colleague and collaborator of Pat’s from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  My work systems expertise made it possible for me to recognize and appreciate the magic of Pat’s inclusive, iterative approach to leading change. My consulting experience taught me that change-readiness is one of the major players in whether an initiative is successful or not.  When Pat described what he’d been doing, I was excited to join forces with him to help more organizations build change capacity.

  • Interpret

    We help you sort through the feedback you receive and the implications for the project.

  • Iterate

    We start with small projects and build capacity.  We use what we learn to implement large-scale change.

  • Integrate

    We integrate the change within the larger system so that it is sustainable.

  • Imperfect

    The work is never finished and the change process is always imperfect. Let’s get used to it and let’s get better at it.