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Welcome to A Change Question — a special mini-series from The Inner Game of Change.
In each short, solo episode, I bring you one question worth sitting with — the kind that can spark both personal and professional shifts. 

Who am I becoming through this change?

From Pip’s awakening in Great Expectations, to David Bowie’s reinvention, to Maya Angelou’s reminder that becoming is rarely glamorous, this episode looks at how change does not just happen around us — it happens through us.

Ali unpacks how our brains reshape our experience during change, how resistance is often the first sign that something inside us is trying to shift, and how even small personal changes ripple outward into our work, families, and communities.

He also offers a simple reflection framework — Look Back, Look Around, Look Ahead — to help you sense how much change has already shaped who you are today.

If you are navigating uncertainty, evolving in your role, or simply noticing shifts inside yourself, this episode might meet you exactly where you are.

The question for you this week:
Who are you becoming through the changes in your life — and is that the person you want to become?

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Welcome to The Inner Game of Change. where we explore the thinking behind the doing of change.

In this episode, we turn our attention to something that is reshaping every part of our work — artificial intelligence. Not as a headline or a fear, but as a companion in how we learn, decide, and lead.

My guest, Joanne Rinaldi, brings a wealth of experience leading enterprise transformation and building centres of excellence that help people think and perform differently. She has spent years helping teams grow through change — not just manage it.

Together, we explore what happens when AI moves from being a tool we use to a collaborator in our practice. What it means for judgement, empathy, and the human craft of change.

I am grateful to have Joanne chating with me today.

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Career experience in leading strategic transformational change initiatives. Establish and operationalise centres of excellence to enable new & improved ways of thinking and performing. Lead a client portfolio of strategic advisory services; enterprise transformation, business optimisation, innovative and contemporary learning design and delivery. Leadership and capability frameworks.

Lead and inspire 'right' performing teams while nurturing a growth mindset, promoting health & wellbeing and a creating a fun-filled learning environment. 

Passionate photographer and sports coach/player for fun and fitness!

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Welcome to A Change Question — a special mini-series from The Inner Game of Change.
In each short, solo episode, I bring you one question worth sitting with — the kind that can spark both personal and professional shifts. 

In this episode, I explore a question we often avoid: How do I initiate change in the workplace?

History shows us that change rarely starts with permission. It begins with a first step — often small, often risky — and gains power when followed by the second step that makes it stick.

From neuroscience to practical strategies, this episode unpacks why the first move matters, how to position it well, and what happens if you don’t make it… because someone else will.

👉 If there’s one step you’ve been waiting to take, what will it be — and what would the second step look like?

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Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

 My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez : Antonio is a global champion of project management and author of the "Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook" which was released late 2021. 

As well as discussing his book, Anotnio argues that we are living in a project economy and Projects are the lingua franca of the business and personal worlds from the C-suite to managing your careers.

I am grateful to have Antonio sharing his thoughts on re-imagining project management.     

Topics include :

1. Project Managers need to do 80% of their current practices differently. 
2. How to prepare people for the current project economy 
3. Project Portfolio management
4. Projects are permanent and operations are temporary 
5. From COO to Chief Projects / Transformation Officer
6. The gig economy within an organisation 
7. Output trumps input 
8. The battle amongst PM, Agile PM, CM, etc. 
9. The pandemic taught us to be good at prioritisation

and much more.

About Antonio (in his own words)
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is the global champion of project management and author of the "Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook" (HBR 2021) and HBR magazine's featured article "The Project Economy Has Arrived" (Nov 2021), which argues that Projects are the lingua franca of the business and personal worlds from the C-suite to managing your careers.

Antonio’s research and global impact in modern management has been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice” and is ranked #17 in the global gurus Top 30 list. He is part of Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches.

He was the global Chairman of the Project Management Institute in 2016 and has been recognized as a Fellow of PMI for his contribution to the project management profession. He led the creation of the Brightline Initiative, founded of Projects & Co, and co-founded the Strategy Implementation Institute. Antonio is also the author of “Lead Successful Projects” (Penguin, 2019), “The Project Revolution” (LID, 2019). and “The Focused Organization” (Taylor&Francis, 2014), and has contributed to seven other books. A pioneer and leading authority in teaching and coaching senior executives the art and science of strategy execution and project management. Currently visiting professor at Duke CE, Instituto de Empresa, Solvay, Vlerick, Ecole des Ponts, and Skolkovo.

He is the Director of the Program Management Office at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Previously he worked as Head of Project Portfolio Management at BNP Paribas Fortis. Prior he was Head of Post-Merger Integration at Fortis Bank, leading the acquisition of ABN AMBRO, the largest in financial service history. He also worked for ten years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, becoming the global lead practitioner for project and change management.

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linkedin.com/in/antonionietorodriguez

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• linkedin.com/groups?gid=2548095&trk=hb_side_g  (Blog)
• antonionietorodriguez.com  (Personal Website)

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Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Dr Nadya  Zhexembayeva, an International TEDx speaker, a scientist, an entrepreneur, and an author specializing in reinvention and resilience. 

“The queen of reinvention” as dubbed by TEDx, Nadya delivered keynote talks to over 100,000 executives – including four TEDx  talks in Slovenia, Austria, Romania, and the USA.

I am grateful to have Nadya sharing her thoughts on sustaining digital transformation.   

Topics Include:

1. The urgency for digital transformation
2. Building blocks for sustainable change maturity
3. Change resilience
4. Starter vs Completer
5. Change execution capability
6. Change as a process
7. It won't slow down; get used to change
8. The change manager seat at the C- Suite table

and much more...

About Nadya
In Ventures magazine calls her “The Reinvention Guru.” TEDx Navasink calls her “The Queen of Reinvention.” Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a scientist, entrepreneur, and author specializing in resilience and reinvention.
 
As a consultant and an educator, Nadya helped such companies as Coca-Cola, IBM, Cisco, L’Oreal Group, Danone, Kohler, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, and Vienna Insurance Group reinvent their products, leadership practices, and business models to meet new market demands and prepare for incoming disruptions. Until 2016, she served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at IEDC-Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in Slovenia, where she teaches courses in leadership, organizational behavior, strategy, change management, design thinking, and sustainability.
 
As a speaker, she delivered keynotes to more than 100,000 executives – including four TEDx talks in Slovenia, Austria, Romania, and the USA.
 
Nadya is the author of a number of books, including “Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World”, which was named Best Book of 2014 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries, and “Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage”, which was selected as one of the Best Sustainability Books of All Times by BookAuthority.
 
Nadya’s latest book, “The Chief Reinvention Officer Handbook: How to Thrive in Chaos” is the a finalist in the American Book Fest Awards, the winner of the 2021 Axiom Business Books Awards, and the winner of the Kirkus Star, "one of the most coveted designations in the book industry, which marks books of exceptional merit."

Nadya earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, USA, where she also served as an Associate Director at the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, now Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, until 2008.

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Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

 My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Michael Brown, An award-winning author, a CEO, a wonderful human and so many other great things. 

A respected international author of the Gold Award Winning book I Don’t Agree and a tenacious CEO who tries every day to live his values and deliver community value. 

I am grateful to have Michael discussing his book with me today.   

Topics discussed

The positive effect of disagreement

The continuous battle between competing and collaborating 

The pride diet 

Behaviour Switches

The attribution bias

Values before skills

The pyramid of choice

Disagreement as an agent for change

Michael’s ongoing to disagree authentically

And much more

About Michael (In his own words)

TENACIOUS, CREATIVE, OPTIMISTIC, ENTREPRENEURIAL, KIND.
These are the qualities I most admire in others.
I’ve tried to cultivate them in myself. I’ve not always lived up to them, but I remain aspirational. For me, it’s these qualities that come in most handy when you set out to achieve a dream. Which is useful; because having a vision and finding a way to make it happen is what excites me most. When I was (much) younger I was in a band. We had the usual big ambitions.
But…I raised a bit of money from local businesses, started an indie record label and signed my band to it. That action eventually led to me securing not one, but two, major recording contracts during my twenties. While I have amazing memories of a time spent largely on the road, ultimately, we never sold enough music to maintain a major label deal – even though I was a sticker in Smash Hits (my mum still has it on her toilet door) and in an era before Spotify, the tunes we wrote were frequent visitors to the airwaves.
In the death of that dream I learned a valuable lesson;
Creativity without the entrepreneurship, tenacity and sheer optimism to bring whatever you create to an audience is wasteful.
Tenacity is crucial. In life and business, many people have the power to say NO. Getting to a YES requires a wider consultation with a larger constituency of people. That usually means ‘yes’ decisions happen less often. If you wanted to fly a hot air balloon through the raised drawer bridges of Tower Bridge as I have, or kickstart the world’s first mental health drop-in centre inside a soup kitchen, you have to have to keep communicating and collaborating; to keep asking the questions that will get you a big fat YES. This is the quality that I hope to contribute to an endeavour.
I’d like to think I’ve now honed my entrepreneurial instincts to a point where they’re proven – I’ve been a long-term managing director of an award-winning, high growth advertising agency and founded another creative business that is now an international organisation of renown – we’ve won an agency of the year accolade 6 times in 8 years.
As for optimism – well, in any mission you embark on, you need to believe the horizon is bathed in sunshine, or why head there at all?
And kindness? I sometimes fall short.
BUT...I’m a homelessness charity trustee and a soup kitchen volunteer. I believe in equality of opportunity. I sit on our LGBTQ+ steering committee and I’m an activist. I’m a working-class kid from Grimsby who has needed a break a few tim

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Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

 My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Melanie Franklin; An international change consultant and a co-chair of the UK Change Management Institute.  

 A respected international author of textbooks and articles on change and founder of the Continuous Change Community, Melanie is a wealth of change practice knowledge and has led transformational change practice for over twenty years. 

 I am grateful to have Melanie sharing her thoughts and knowledge with me today.   

Topics discussed

• Importance of a change practice training
• Purist vs Latitudinarian application
• Complimentary skills for an effective change practitioner
• Attitudes that underpin change plans
• External vs Internal change practitioners 
• Importance of continuous learning
• The change practitioner’s role in the next 5 years

And much more

About Melanie (In her own words)

I take a very practical approach to change, programme and project management with priority on the realisation of planned benefits, working closely with my clients to ensure that the desire to implement best practice does not result in bureaucracy for its own sake.
 
 Each solution that I propose is based on sound practical advice and experience with guidance on how it is likely to be received by staff, how resistance to change can be overcome and how stakeholders can be engaged from the outset.
 
 It is stated I have a reputation for delivering complex information with humour and passion. Drawing on my wealth of practical experience to illustrate concepts, I engage my audience in lively debates on advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
 
 Change Management - building capability for managing change through knowledge transfer and the creation of change management frameworks (methodology; toolkit; training package for new change teams) that offer simple and intuitive models for managing change
 
 Agile Project Management - creating best practice methodologies, delivering training courses and facilitating workshops to build capability in project, programme and portfolio management.

 Contact

To access more resources about change management, connect with Melanie on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniefranklin1/

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Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is Joanne Rinaldi; The Director of Service delivery at PROSCI ANZ. 

Backed up by extensive change management experience, Joanne is a passionate professional who is focused on uplifting change capabilities for teams and organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

I am grateful to have Joanne sharing her knowledge and insight with me today.   

Topics discussed

1- ADKAR model

2-Change resistance within the ADKAR 

3-The most important step in ADKAR

4-The role of the sponsor. 

5-PROSCI research insight on ADKAR

6-The importance of validation

And much more

About Joanne (In her own words)

 Specialties: Lead a portfolio of client strategic advisory services, program change lead in digital transformation, global technology refresh program, international merger & acquisition, innovation and design, multiple operational & culture change initiatives and projects.
 
 Leading a team of professional business consultants, developing and facilitating leadership programs, operational frameworks, support models and building organisational change capability.
 
 It takes preparation, crafted planning and timed execution in managing and leading employees through change. Confidence is about having the skills, competency and knowledge to make the journey from current state to desired state. It's the shift to a Growth mindset and organisational agility from “can’t” to “can”.

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Welcome and thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change in the workplace.

My guest today is author, speaker and applied behavioural scientist Rory Gallagher . 

 Rory is the co-author of the book ‘Think Small: The surprisingly simple ways to reach big goals’ .

 Leading the Behavioural Insights teams in Australia and Asia Pacific, Rory is a thought leader and advocate for delivering social impact through applied behavioral science, and scaling what works. 

 I am grateful to have Rory sharing his passion, thoughts and some of his works with me today.

Topics include:

• Behavioural Science
• EAST framework
• Types of nudges
• Power of small steps and self nudge
• Find the bright lines
• Different ways to apply Nudges in change management. 

About Rory (in his own words)

I lead The Behavioural Insights Team's work across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, overseeing our offices in Sydney, Wellington and Singapore. I have been with BIT since it was established in 2010, and have overseen hundreds of behavioural projects in the public, private and non-government sectors, in areas ranging from employment to education, and housing to health care.
I am passionate about delivering social impact through applied behavioural science, building thriving teams and scaling what works.
I am the co-author of ‘Think Small: The surprisingly simple ways to reach big goals’ (2017).

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Thank you for checking in at the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing organisational change.

My guests cover a diverse number of critical topics to enable effective and sustainable change adoption including communication, leadership, training, change practice, process design, change capability and much more. 

My guest today is author, creativity consultant, and artist Noah Scalin. 

Noah is an advocate for the power of creativity during uncertain times to help solve business current problems and manage change. 

I am grateful to have Noah sharing his passion and thoughts with me today. 

About Noah (in his own words)

Because creativity is a practice not a talent, I believe everyone has the ability to develop it. As an Artist, Author and Innovation Consultant, I have been all over the world teaching creative practice through talks, workshops and public art projects.

Contact

https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahscalin/

https://www.anotherlimitedrebellion.com/

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