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Change Signal: Modern Change Management that Works

by Michael Bungay Stanier | Modern Change Management Practitioner

Change management is harder than ever. Organizations face more complexity, more uncertainty, and more pressure to deliver successful change than at any point in recent memory. Most leaders respond by pushing harder. Others search for the latest model, framework, or methodology and hope the tool will solve the problem. Neither guarantees change adoption. Successful change happens when people are ready, stakeholders are engaged, leaders show up effectively, and change approaches fit the reality of the work. That's what Change Signal explores. Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and a student of organizational change for more than thirty years, talks with leading thinkers, experienced practitioners, and senior leaders to uncover what works, what doesn't, and what modern change management looks like in practice. Each episode explores the challenges behind leading successful change, building change readiness, strengthening stakeholder engagement, improving change adoption, applying change frameworks, refining change methodology, and measuring change effectiveness. Whether you're leading a change project, supporting organizational change, or helping teams navigate uncertainty, you'll find practical ideas, tested approaches, and evidence-based insights you can put to work immediately. The goal is simple: help change practitioners and change leaders make change more successful, more sustainable, and less overwhelming. New episodes regularly. Join the conversation at TheChangeSignal.com. Popular Episode Topics Include: Change Management, Modern Change Management, Leading Change, Change Adoption, Adoption Strategy, Change Readiness, Organizational Readiness, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Buy-In, Executive Sponsorship, Change Methodology, Change Frameworks, Change Management Frameworks, Change Leadership, Change Measurement, Measuring Change Success, Change Effectiveness, Change Projects, Change Planning, Change Outcomes

Latest episodes

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Never Pitch Your Change Idea | Michael Arena | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Where is change already happening without you? Are you selling ideas before they’ve been tested? And what are we losing as AI makes work more efficient? Michael Arena is

Oct 21
31 min

You're Definitely Spreading Change Too Thin | Damon Centola | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three provocative questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation with Damon Centola: What are you mistaking for adoption? Who actually makes change fe

Oct 14
29 min

Your Change Pilot Should Probably Fail | Amy Edmondson | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation with Amy Edmondson: Are we learning — or just performing success? When should a change project be

Oct 7
29 min

Can Less Persuasion Create More Change? | Phill Agnew | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions this Change Signal conversation asks: Are you designing behaviour, or just explaining the change?  Where does resistance actually come from? 

Sep 30
37 min

Is Your Change Program a Chocolate Teapot? | Aidan McCullen | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here’s the revised version with an opening sentence and the three questions bulleted. This Change Signal conversation with Aidan McCullen asks three practical questions

Sep 23
31 min

Your Change Strategy Isn't a Strategy | Alex M H Smith | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

This Change Signal conversation with Alex M H Smith asks three sharp questions:  What unique value does your change work create? Who actually cares about it? What a

Sep 16
26 min

Should Change Teams Disappear? | Clay Parker Jones | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions from this Change Signal conversation:  What if resistance is right? Where does change spread without permission? How close is your transfor

Sep 9
26 min

How Change Really Travels | Greg Satell | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions from this Change Signal conversation with Greg Satell:  What if change doesn’t move through hierarchy at all?  What if silos are not the prob

Sep 2
28 min

Why Stories Matter More | Jennifer Garvey Berger | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Jennifer Garvey Berger’s three key insights: connectivity matters more than individual talent in complex systems; small experiments beat both over-planning and paralysis;

Aug 26
30 min

Is Your Organization Change Allergic? | Anne Gotte | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Three key insights from Anne Gotte: change management is as outdated as "personnel" organizations must diagnose their change allergies before attempting transformation; a

Aug 19
27 min

Why You Build Belonging Before Belief | Hahrie Han | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three big insights that emerge from this Change Signal conversation with Hahrie Han: Are you creating value or just convenience?; Does belonging come before

Aug 12
35 min

What Really Moves/Changes a System | Helen Bevan | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three provocative questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation with Helen Bevan:  Is your belonging actually just assimilation?  Are your relati

Aug 5
29 min

How to Build Real Agency | Cate Hall | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions this Change Signal conversation asks: What freedom are you not seeing yet? Where can you safely loosen control? When does agency become dan

Jul 29
21 min

How AI Changes Change Leadership | Brian Evergreen | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions from this Change Signal conversation:  Are we chasing AI, or value?  What future are we actually building?  What would have to be true to g

Jul 22
26 min

Is Your Change Too Big? | Jana Werner | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation:  What intelligence are you wasting? Who really owns the change? What needs to go first? I

Jul 15
29 min

Leading Change Without Permission | Alex Budak | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation: Who gave you permission to lead? What if 25 percent is enough? Where have you become the h

Jul 8
23 min

Clarity>Certainty. Context>Content | Peter Schein | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

This Change Signal conversation with Peter Schein asks three questions: • What doesn’t your change plan know? • Where is context quietly defeating content? • Are we bu

Jul 1
28 min

Two Types of Change Harm | Kate O'Neill | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Three questions sit at the heart of this conversation: • Are you starting with the technology, or the purpose?• What harm are you creating by moving too fast — or too sl

Jun 24
28 min

How to Make Change Real | Roger Martin | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Three questions sit at the heart of this conversation:  Are you asking people to make real choices, or just comply? What past are you accidentally disrespecting?

Jun 17
28 min

Designing Behavior Change That Sticks | BJ Fogg | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

This Change Signal conversation with BJ Fogg raises three interesting questions: Are you designing change, or just hoping for it?  Where’s the overlap that actually

Jun 10
28 min

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Michael has curated an insightful and engaging podcast that should be on any change leader’s regular listening line-up. MBS and his guests share both strategic and tactical tips to help accelerate organizational and individual change.

Katie Anderson - KBJAnderson · Feb 2025

So often this org change stuff is so theoretical that it’s a useful as a posh dress when you’re changing a car tire. But Michael and his guests keep it real and keep it human. Because change IS very human territory. And creating change at an organisational level is one of the most challenging things Ive ever led. This podcast is genuinely helpful.

rachelgwendolyn · Feb 2025

Worth listen. Katy provided tremendous simple value in a 15-18 minute span. Three keys - Be diagnostic in your approach to change - Do a series of Fresh starts while accountability - Do premortem work to determine where you want to be when the change is completed. Finally, be curious

Icanwinnow · Feb 2025

The world is changing faster than anyone can track and leaders need this perspective in their tool belts more than ever. Michael’s personal network of experts is second to none -- I’m excited to learn from them all in the episodes ahead.

Dave Stachowiak · Mar 2025

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