Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest with William Vanderbloemen
William Vanderbloemen reveals the 12 teachable traits which he finds all unicorns have in common.

William Vanderbloemen reveals the 12 teachable traits which he finds all unicorns have in common.
With Build Your Model for Leading Change, Marsha Acker invites you to take an exceptional journey of personal growth that will have a direct impact on your ability to successfully lead others.
Explore the future of voice technology.
Explore the delicate balance between control and empowerment in leadership and the significance of vulnerability.
Liz Kislik discusses workplace conflict resolution.
Jennifer Krippner discusses how to help healthcare leaders build trust, respect, and compassion with team members.
Dr. Keera Godfrey discusses learning how to change direction beyond your comfort zone in pursuit of your goals and passion.
Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich talks about the importance of personal change and how we all can learn to manage it for ourselves and within our practice as leaders, coaches, and change makers.
Sue Noble and Amy Tarrant connected at a Change Management Institute event in 2018, quickly realizing the extent to which their skillset overlapped and the significant benefit there would be in blending these skill sets to deliver successful, long-term change. Amy subsequently invited Sue to talk at one of the Change Management Institute’s events. This led to many conversations on the synergy between the two disciplines and the relevance coaching can have for change practitioners. They recognize...
Oscar Trimboli defines listening as “the willingness to have your mind changed.” Through his decades of study, Oscar has identified five levels of listening. Each of these levels takes the listener – and the speaker – deeper into the conversation. In this podcast, Oscar and Managing Editor Brian Gorman dive into what it takes to be an explorer of deep listening, including the following. The importance of the numbers 125, 400, and 900 when listening deeply. The difference between active listening...
Both guest Beth Banks Cohn and Managing Editor Brian Gorman have spent decades in the field of organizational change management. In this podcast they explore some of the many lessons that Beth has learned over the years that she wants to pass on the today’s change professionals. Tune in and hear Beth's answers to questions such as: Why do you find it important to pass on your approach to change to the next generation of practitioners? What is your approach to change management? How do you use sc...
Culture is your company's best competitive advantage. Competitors can copy ideas and steal people; customer demands and markets can change in an instant. How well your teams work together, and how well your bonds hold in the face of change, will determine your success. When you eliminate dysfunction between leadership and employees, you end up increasing engagement and reducing turnover. Tune in and hear Paula's answers to questions such as: There's been a lot of articles on uncertainty and vola...
Changing an organisation’s culture and the behaviours within it is one of the most difficult leadership challenges. Lindsey Agness and Theresa Moulton will explore why it is such a challenge and how to take practical steps to shift behaviour. This podcast will deliver practical ideas and tips for behaviour change. Tune in and hear Lindsey's answers to questions such as: What is organisation culture ? What are the drivers of organisation culture? Why is it so hard to motivate staff to change thei...
There is no question about it. Generational differences exist and often lead to friction, disagreement, conflict, disengagement, turnover, and project failure. As change practitioners and leaders, it is important to understand How to navigate these differences successfully. Chris De Santis, author of Why I Find You Irritating, joins Management Editor Brian Gorman to explore the roots of today’s intergenerational conflicts in the workplace as well as how to navigate them successfully. Tune in and...
Early change management methodologies focused heavily on culture. As the profession has grown and matured, other aspects of organizational change have tended to take center stage, with less, if any focus remaining on culture. In his book The Culture Fix, Will Scott makes the case that culture does, in fact belong front and center and the organizational leadership should be maintaining a focus on culture as an ongoing part of their responsibilities. In this podcast with Managing Editor Brian Gorm...
Hamza Kahn began his 2015 TEDx talk, Stop Managing, Start Leading, by telling his audience that there are three things about him that they should know: he was born in 1987 (28 years old), he loves hip hop, and he is a horrible boss. Through his own experiences, as well as the wisdom of long-time thought-leaders such as Peter Drucker and Douglas McGregor, Hamza then goes on to share with the audience what he then saw as the best ways to lead the workforce of the future. In this thoughtful and tho...
In The Heart of Transformation: Build the Human Capabilities That Change Organizations for Good, Michael J. Leckie writes, “Throughout this book I will be talking about individual change as the basis for all change.” Michael and Managing Editor Brian Gorman explore the author’s perspective of organizational change as people-centric and how that perspective leads to a fundamentally different approach to organizational change management. Tune in and listen to Michael J. Leckie's answers to questio...
“Written by a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive community of contributors and business experts, (The Secret Sauce for Leading Transformational Change) is about leading transformational change on an individual, team, organizational, and societal level.” Author Ian Ziskin is joined by two of the many contributors to this unique book in this podcast with Change Management Review Managing Editor and Consortium for Change member Brian Gorman. Listen as Ian, Jennifer, and Beth answer questions suc...
In their book Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future, PwC partners Paul Leinwand and Matt Mani posit that digitization is not enough to be a winner in the future; at best, it will allow you to continue playing. Through their work with global organizations, they have identified seven strategies that are key to gaining and maintaining competitive advantage. They draw on the experience of companies as diverse as Hitachi, Eli Lilly, Adobe, and Spanish mu...
Are the metrics of change management the metrics of the change itself? Why can folks have an adverse reaction to being individually measured? What are the Dark Side of KPIs and how do we combat that? Dana will provide the 4-step process to reveal useful and meaningful measures for both change and change management. Tune in to hear Dana Houston Jackson's answers to questions such as: What do metrics and culture have to do with each other? What do metrics and executive attention and focus have to ...
Lindsey Caplan shares with Managing Editor Brian Gorman the ways in which change leaders and practitioners can significantly increase the effectiveness of change-related gatherings (e.g., town halls, launches, offsites). Her approach helps to engage employees more fully in change efforts and to move from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to one that is “made-to-fit-me.” Tune in to hear Lindsey Caplan's answers to questions such as: Lindsey, you have an interesting background, going from screenwrite...
Given the turbulence and uncertainty of the future of work, Robin Hills' insights on emotional resilience in business are prescient for change practitioners and change leaders. In this podcast, Managing Editor Brian Gorman and Robin explore the role that emotional resilience plays in our work, the effect of emotion on resilience, and the importance of empathy. Listen and get Robin Hills' answers to questions such as: How do you define resilience, and why is it important in the realm of business?...
Change management digitization pioneer Gavin Wedell joins Management Editor Brian Gorman to explore the role of digitization in change management. Based on a year of experience in the application of a digital platform for supporting organizational change, Gavin estimates that approximately 17% of a practitioner’s time could be shifted from administrative work (e.g., tracking and reporting) back to other change management activities. In addition to how digitization can support practitioners today...
Whether you are a change leader, change practitioner, or a bit of both, Nancy Murphy offers valuable insights on how to be more successful in this podcast with Managing Editor Brian Gorman. Nancy provides insights into historical leadership traits that are no longer serving either leaders or their organizations. She also provides suggestions – some low cost and no cost – that can make a significant difference in whether or not your changes deliver. Listen and get Nancy Murphy's answers to questi...
How we approach change is dependent on the mindset that we bring to it, and Jake Jacob’s mindset has always been that it can be faster and easier and deliver better results if we think about it in ways that are different from most change management methodologies. Through his decades of providing support and guidance to large-scale change, Jake has identified 8 “change levers” or smart strategic actions that when applied correctly can accelerate the execution of change, make it easier to move thr...
In this far-ranging discussion, Change Management Review Managing Editor Brian Gorman and Michael Hynes, author of The Myth-Guided Mind, get very practical about the role of change practitioners and change leaders in today’s workplace uncertainty. Tune in to get Michael Hynes' answers to questions such as: In The Myth-Guided Mind, you share a significant personal trauma in your life and how that informs the way that you interact in the world. Why is that message important to our community of cha...
What if, instead of seeing change as difficult, costly, and “weird” or outside the ordinary, we were to look at it as easy/doable, rewarding, and normal? In this podcast, Proteus International’s founding partner Erika Andersen and Change Management Review Managing Editor Brian Gorman begin by exploring this mindset shift. Erika believes that this should be the mindset for all change. She makes the case that leaders, individuals throughout the organization, and the organization itself must make t...
Brendon Baker believes that as a profession, we have over-complicated our approaches to change management. He has taken it upon himself to simplify it and in doing so, to help change leaders drive real value. Brendon and Managing Editor Brian Gorman discuss his approach for doing so Tune in and get Brendon Baker's answers to questions such as: The title of your book is Valuable Change: What You Need to Know to Ensure Your Change Pays Off. The name of your company is Valuable Change. What do you ...
Dr. Keith Merron joins Managing Editor Brian Gorman to explore the valuable role that using paradigms as a lens can play both in transformational coaching and transformational change management. As Keith highlights during the conversation, “paradigm” becomes highly complex at the organizational level. Individuals and teams each have their own paradigms. The policies, processes, and procedures that are enacted in the organization tend to be there to support existing paradigms; yet if you change t...
In this far-ranging conversation, Beth Montag-Schmaltz, Principal and Founder at 71 & Change, joins Managing Editor Brian Gorman to explore the changing practice of change management. The theme of measurement runs through the conversation, from the importance – and an approach – for measuring and tracking initiatives across an enterprise to the role that measurement will play in successfully responding to the Great Resignation. Beth also shares her key messages to leaders who are looking for...