Ask Dr. Change
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55. Phase VIII of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Celebrate and Integrate the New State
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase VIII: Celebrate and Integrate the New State is key to the full adoption of your solution. Its first Activity focuses on acknowledging the work d...
54. Phase VII of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Implement the Change
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase VII is where you finally get to roll out the Implementation Master Plan to do the work necessary to get your aspired Desired State into place....
53. Bonus Episode! “Is Your Organization Change Allergic?” with Anne Gotte interview on Change Signal
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of Ask Dr. Change, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson shares an episode from the Change Signal podcast, hosted by Michael Bungay Sta...
52. Phase VI of The Change Leader’s Roadmap- Plan and Organize for Implementation
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase VI of the Change Leader’s Roadmap is a continuation of the Impact Analysis work done in Phase V. Here you take the impacts and issues you i...
51. Phase V of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Analyze the Impact
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase V of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Analyze the Impact, takes a deep dive into the actual magnitude of change work that will be triggered by imp...
50. Phase IV of The Change Leader’s Roadmap- Design the Desired State
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase IV of The Change Leader’s Roadmap is the Design Phase, where you take your Design Requirements from Phase III to determine the best soluti...
49. Phase III of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Assess the Situation to Determine Design Requirements
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase III of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Assess the Situation to Determine Design Requirements enables the upcoming Design work for your project to...
48. Phase II of The Change Leader’s Roadmap: Build Project Community’s Understanding and Commitment to Desired Outcomes
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Phase II of The Change Leader’s Roadmap is designed to inform, enroll and inspire your Project Community and all stakeholders of your project in mak...
47. Phase I of the Change Leader’s Roadmap Methodology- Prepare to Lead the Change
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Change Leader’s Roadmap process has nine phases. This episode presents the critical Upstream work of Phase I: Prepare to Lead the Change. It out...
46. Exclusive! The Change Leader’s Roadmap Methodology Series
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode launches an exclusive ten-part series on The Change Leader’s Roadmap, Being First’s world-class methodology for leading change projec...
45. Up Close and Personal: Conversation with Dr. Diana Whitney, Co-Creator of Appreciative Inquiry
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Diana Whitney is a global pioneer in the field of Appreciative Inquiry, a positive revolution radically transforming leadership and organizational...
44. How to Dance with Disruption: An Interview with Change Author, Jeff Skipper
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With 30 years’ experience, Jeff Skipper has been around the block supporting leaders and consultants alike to enhance their approach to leading disr...
43. How to Launch Change Efforts for Success from the Start
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most change efforts struggle to get early traction without clarity, leadership and alignment. The Upstream stage of change is all about getting your i...
42. Ten Most Powerful Consulting Questions for Change Sponsors
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Although every major change effort has a sponsor, not many sponsors fully understand the role, how to set up the effort for success, and provide clear...
41. Consciously Design Your Project's Solution
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All projects address designing the solution for the future state. However, most set up a Design Team or use consultants primarily of content experts t...
40. The Ten Most Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change, Part 2
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Using the ten most common mistakes as an assessment of your organization’s current reality in leading change is a powerful way to identify the costl...
39. Ten Most Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change, Part 1
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over 45 years of observing organizations undergoing major change, we have identified ten of the most common mistakes leaders make, and often repeat, t...
38. Leading Change As A Strategic Discipline
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While leading major change efforts is happening in all organizations, the effectiveness given the multitude of ways it is led produces vastly differen...
37. Personal Interview with Joe Rafter, Business and Social Change Leader
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Rafter has spent his career achieving results in a vast array of organizations and specializing the Change Leadership. In one chapter of his caree...
36. Enlightening Interview with Donna Brighton, Chief Ideas Officer, Brighton Leadership Group
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donna Brighton brings decades of experience to the change leadership field as well as self-mastery and continuous learning. She is a founding Board Me...
35. Catalyzing Organizational Energy for Change, Part II
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Part II of Linda’s overview of organizational energy dynamics, she builds on doing an Energy Scan to identify and assess current energy dynamics ...
34. Managing Organizational Energy for Results
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Linda shares this powerful, non-traditional approach to assessing the ability of an organization to achieve results from change---through understandin...
33. Candid Interview with Jake Jacobs: Inventor of Real-time Strategic Change
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Jacobs has been around the change block many times over. One of his greatest contributions in the field of Large-Scale Change Interventions is Re...
32. Creating Critical Mass: A Powerful and Essential Strategy to Generate Momentum for Change
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most Change Management practitioners rightly focus a lot of energy and attention on managing their stakeholders to overcome resistance and adopt the f...
31. Direct from the Source! Ten Essential Strategies to Succeed at Your Transformational Changes
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to ensure your transformational changes succeed? In this episode, Dr. Dean Anderson and Linda (Dr. Change), founders of this work, describe Being ...
30. Turning Resistance to Change into Commitment
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode presents guidance for dealing with both leader and stakeholder resistance to change. It’s essential to understand the human dynamics un...
29. How to Get People’s Attention When Current Reality is Entrenched
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most organizations with long and successful histories are tough to change. Yet change they must. How can leaders get the attention of their managers a...
28. Rethinking Project Scope: Expanding Attention to All Priorities
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While every major change effort has a defined scope, most are incomplete and often need to be expanded to achieve desired outcomes. This episode hig...
27. Candid Interview with Theresa Moulton, Editor-in-Chief of the Change Management Review
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Theresa Moulton is one of the Change Management superstars supporting the field and pushing its edges after 25 years of experience and relentless entr...
26. Conscious Change Leadership: the Future of Organizational Change
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Johnson, Master Coach and Being First Associate, interviews Linda about her views on leaders and consultants taking on the Conscious Change Lea...
25. Andrew Johnson, Shares His Journey to Become a Conscious Change Leader
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Linda interviews Andrew Johnson, Master Coach and Being First Associate. Andrew has traveled the entire development road with Being F...
24. How to Achieve Full Stakeholder Adoption in Transformational Change
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is change adoption and why is it so difficult to achieve and sustain? In this episode, Dr. Change reveals the work required to obtain adoption by...
23. What Kind Of Change Consultant Are You?
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With major change so widespread in organizations, the need for internal and external consulting support has grown exponentially—as have the number...
22. Leading Organization-Wide Transformation with an Enterprise Change Agenda
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most organizations today are fraught with so much change that it’s hard for leaders to stay on top of everything they are asking of the organization...
21. Beyond Change Management: Requirements To Lead Transformational Change
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most organizational change efforts rely on the tried-and-true approaches of Project Management and Change Management. However, when a project is trans...
20. Transforming Police Culture: Interview with Change Process Leader, Kate MacDonald
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The role of the Change Process Leader is a breakthrough strategy for successfully leading transformational change. Beyond Project Management and Chang...
19. Breakthrough! Transforming Change Leadership Roles And Project Strategy
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our most complex and transformational change projects face many predictable hurdles. Current project leader roles and processes do not prevent or miti...
18. Take A Serious Look! How Well Are Your Transformational Changes Being Led?
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders and their consultants often take for granted that they know how to lead all their major change projects. However, transformational changes hav...
17. Up Close and Personal, Time with Talent Industry Legend, Dr. Beverly Kaye
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Interview – Dr. Beverly Kaye, Founder of Bev Kaye & Co.Dr. Beverly Kaye is an internationally recognized expert in the field of career dev...
16. When to Decline a Change Project as a Change Consultant
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a Change Consultant, when should I consider not accepting a project because of clear adverse leadership, buy-in or cultural issues? There is nothi...
15. Linda’s Personal Passions…Beyond Change Leadership!
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Holidays! As the final episode for our inaugural year of Ask Dr. Change, Linda shares two of her most personal passions: Art and Food! In this e...
14. Navigating Change: Insights from ACMP President Rich Batchelor
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an engaging episode featuring Rich Batchelor, President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP). With over 30 years o...
13. Framing Change for Success: From Fear to Possibility
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders have a critical choice to make when initiating change. How they frame and communicate the change impacts how it’s received and embraced by t...
12. Raising Leaders' Awareness of the People and Process Requirements of Leading Change
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Most leaders are rightfully focused on getting the best content solution designed and implemented to satisfy a need in the organization. However, this...
11. Transformation Will Never Go As Planned! How To Set It Up For Rapid Course Correction
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every change effort requires a reliable plan to make happen. However, some types of change are well led with pre-determined plans and others, like tra...
10. Clarifying Your Role and Style for Change Consultants and Coaches
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s topic surfaces several important issues about how we as consultants and coaches can best support the people tasked with making change. It is...
09. A Journey of Change Mastery with Daryl Conner
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Embark on a transformative journey with the distinguished change expert Daryl Conner as we delve into the multifaceted realm of change management and ...
08. Getting Leaders to Hear the Wake Up Call for Change
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do your too-busy leaders miss seeing important information that they know they need to make? Many leaders miss, ignore or side-step information that s...
07. Guiding Project Launch To Full Adoption: The Change Leader's Roadmap
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this episode, where I’ll introduce you to the most comprehensive guidance system for all magnitudes and types of change -- The Change Lea...
06. Sponsoring Transformation – The Leaders Job
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Question – Margaret Smith – Independent, Organization Development & Change Consultant – Portland, Oregon So often we consultants an...
05. Transform Your Organization and Culture Through Conscious Change Leadership
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do you want to increase your success rate in large-scale organization and culture transformation? Then join me and my partner, Dr. Dean Anderson, as w...
04. Conditions For Success: Strategically Launching Your Change Initiative
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I answer the question, "How can we reduce the chaos we experience when launching a change initiative? How can we set it up for succes...
03. Understanding Transformational Change: A New Leadership Paradigm
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you wondering how best to guide complex change in organizations? Then this episode is for you. I break down two essential models that will give yo...
02. Making Courageous Choices: My Journey as a Change Leader
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I invite you to join me for this special episode as I take you through my personal journey of discovery, risk-taking, empowerment and pioneering new t...
01. Introducing Ask Dr. Change
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Ask Dr. Change, the podcast that supports your success in leading and consulting to transformational change in organizations and communitie...