The Series
Deep Dive Sessions
Three sessions. Three parts of the framework. Each one stands on its own, so start wherever fits your work.
September 30
Design Thinking + Change Enablement
How to design your change effort using design thinking skills.
"Design with intention."
Facilitated by
Melody Yale
What you'll walk away with
- A new lens on change design. The five phases of design thinking mapped directly to the three dimensions of Change Enablement by Design©. This is a working framework you can apply to your next initiative.
- A way to diagnose where your change design broke down. Most resistance has a design root. This session gives you the language to name it and the tools to address it before it surfaces.
- A shared foundation for your change and design teams. If your organization has people doing design thinking work and people doing change management work, this session gives them a common language. That alone changes how they collaborate.
October 21
Enabled Leadership
Aligning leadership strategies to build support and sustain progress.
"Lead with consistency."
Facilitated by
Neville Poole
What you'll walk away with
- A way to assess leader readiness before a change goes live. A practical framework for identifying where your managers are informed and where they are genuinely enabled before the announcement.
- Language for the three hardest moments managers face. Not scripts. Language patterns for the moments that do not have a FAQ answer. How to hold empathy and clarity at the same time. How to say "I don't know yet" without losing credibility. How to hold a firm boundary with warmth.
- A working template for your next manager cohort. The Leader Enablement Briefing is a practical tool your team can complete in under an hour before any rollout.
November 18
Continuous Sense-Making
How ongoing listening and learning help change take hold.
"Create space for meaning to settle."
Facilitated by
Cody Meche
What you'll walk away with
- A way to see what is happening as change unfolds. Change does not succeed because the message was delivered. Learn how to observe the signals that reveal how people are making sense of change.
- A method for turning signals into meaningful adaptation. Not every reaction requires a response. Use an observe, interpret, adapt discipline to distinguish isolated noise from meaningful patterns, understand what those patterns are telling you, and determine where refinement is needed.
- A practical feedback loop for your next change initiative. Build a lightweight rhythm for gathering signals, making sense of what you are seeing, and feeding what you learn back into leadership and design decisions. That's how change evolves without constantly changing direction.