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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

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Latest episodes

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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

Power Mapping for Change Practitioners & Leaders | Tiziana Casciaro | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation with Tiziana Casciaro:  Where does power really sit in your system? Why don’t people use yo

Jun 3
37 min

Conversations: The Atomic Unit of Change | Daniel Stillman | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three tensions that emerge from this Change Signal conversation with Daniel Stillman:  Who actually owns the change?  What conversations are you avoiding? 

May 27
32 min

Map Your Culture’s Hidden System | Siobhán McHale | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three provocative questions at the centre of this Change Signal conversation with Siobhán McHale: Are you trying to change a machine, a network, or an ecosyst

May 20
25 min

How Your Origin Story Runs Your Change Program | Ron Carucci | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that arise from this Change Signal conversation with Ron Carucci: Are we still managing change as if it’s predictable? What unseen stories

May 13
27 min

How to Start a Change Initiative | Bryan Walker | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that sit at the heart of this Change Signal conversation with Bryan Walker:  What are you changing too early?  Where are you too far away? 

May 6
30 min

Just How Dead is Change Management? | Caroline Kealey | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Three questions this Change Signal conversation with Caroline Kealey invites you to sit with:  What old model are you still relying on?  What are you actually movin

Apr 29
32 min

The OG of Scenario Planning for Change Management | Jeremy Bentham | Modern Change Management & Leading Change

Here are three questions that sit underneath this Change Signal conversation with Jeremy Bentham:  What future are you not exploring?  Where is your strategy gettin

Apr 22
31 min

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What listeners say

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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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