Change It

‘The pace of change will never be this slow again’ Whether we like it or not Change is happening. It’s how we respond to Change that defines us. Join me for the ultimate insight into how professionals highly qualified in Change embrace it, tackle it and succeed in the face of it.

Change It is a business podcast hosted by Eloise Seidelin, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Eloise Seidelin hosts Change It, a business show with 61 episodes published.

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  Episode #70

  Change Is a Design Problem: Why Organisations Get Stuck ft Dr Dani Chesson

  Sep 29, 202636 minS3

  On this episode of the Change It Podcast, Eloise, founder of Change It Talent, the leading change recruitment agency, sits down with Dr Dani Chesson, author of Unstuckified , host of the Design Thinker Podcast, and a transformation practitioner who started her career as a graphic designer. Dani spent her early career inside banking transformation, watching change fail and seeing it through a designer's eyes. That led to a PhD, years of testing ideas with real clients, and one question: what if change management is actually a design problem? Her research found organisations everywhere caught in the same perfect storm. Our brains haven't evolved at the pace of technology. Our organisations are still built like factories. And the world is now both VUCA and BANI. In this conversation, she explains how to get unstuck. In this episode we cover: The three forces that keep organisations "stuckified", and why there's no single root cause Why a plan makes our brains feel in control, and why that's an illusion How to give regulators the plan they need while designing for real human behaviour Dani's four moves: a courageous vision, tiny steps that build momentum, alleviating pain, and activating learning inside the work "Survival adoption", and why AI is an identity threat leaders need to talk about How to use AI as a thought partner by getting it to play your stakeholders If you're a change practitioner who suspects your beloved frameworks are starting to creak, this conversation offers a fresh, practical and very human lens. Links: www.changeittalent.com Unstuckified by Dr Dani Chesson: https://www.unstuckifyed.com/ Dani on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danichessonphd/ The Design Thinker Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2128420

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  Change Management's Future is Human Skills, Not Process Ft Melanie Franklin

  Sep 16, 202617 min

  On this episode of the Change It Podcast, Eloise, founder of Change It Talent, the leading change recruitment agency, sits down with Melanie Franklin, an internationally recognised change management author and researcher whose Global Capability for Change Survey has tracked the state of the profession for five years running. Mel has spent years watching how organisations actually deliver change, and right now she's watching the ground shift under the profession itself. AI has cracked change wide open: individuals and teams are experimenting and innovating without any formal change mandate, "forward deployed engineers" are moving fast on systems and data with no interest in people or process, and centralised change functions are being disbanded in favour of leaner, embedded teams.There's a shift Mel says the profession can't afford to ignore: change management's own value is in decline, and the old linear playbook wasn't built for a world where change is happening everywhere, all the time. In this conversation, she explains why.In this episode we cover: Why AI-driven, bottom-up change is bypassing change management entirely - and what that means for the profession What "forward deployed engineers" are, and why they're reshaping in-the-moment tech change without touching people or process Why linear change models are struggling to keep up with democratised, simultaneous change Why centralised CMOs are being disbanded in Australia, and what's replacing the "head of change" role Why curiosity - not process - is becoming the change capability leaders are hiring for A preview of Mel's fifth annual Global Capability for Change Survey, and how the data can help you evidence the value of change If you're a change professional wondering where you fit in an AI-driven, bottom-up world, this conversation is a sharp, honest read on what's coming next. Links: www.changeittalent.com Links to the Global Annual Change Survey: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Zpzu8-b71Uab-fA16wsoHOcxMuQTBRFAtKszA2hk_3pUNDIzRjhKOVFRSkM5Q1dLUUNYSUZIWFNQVS4u&route=shorturl Mel Franklin's Website: https://capabilityforchange.com/

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  Emergence: The C-Suite's Best Kept Secret ft Tamsin Jones

  Sep 1, 202641 min

  On this episode of the Change It Podcast, Eloise, founder of Change It Talent, the leading change recruitment agency, sits down with Tamsin Jones, a systems change and leadership consultant who has spent 25 years in the rooms where big change actually happens, government strategy sessions, boardrooms, leadership programs and funded convenings across Australia, the UK and Africa. Tamsin runs the Master of Business and Empathy and co-founded a gender lens investing network with Australians Investing in Women, and she's spent the last four years helping leaders navigate what she calls the next economy. There's a word CEOs and boards use quietly, if they use it at all: emergence. Tamsin says it might be the most underrated leadership skill of this moment, and in this conversation she explains why. In this episode we cover: What emergence actually is, and why the C-suite is talking about it without naming it out loud Why command and control leadership is an illusion, and what that means once AI enters the picture Why "not knowing" can be a leadership strength rather than a weakness Why grief is part of navigating change, and what happens when leaders skip it How empathy is showing up in boardrooms, government strategy and AI adoption What Tamsin learned from Taiwan's former digital minister Audrey Tang about trust and participation If you're a leader feeling some cognitive dissonance about where things are headed, this conversation will feel like a very honest debrief. Links: www.tamsinjones.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsinjones/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2UtkjFtRc

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  The Confusion Tax & Why your Transformation is failing ft Stefan Norrvall

  Jul 28, 202635 min

  Stefan Norval has spent over twenty years inside large, messy organisations doing org design, business architecture and process excellence — and he's tired of the theatrics. In this episode, we get into why he refuses to use the term "change resistance," and why he treats it instead as a rational response to bad structural design. Stefan walks through his run-serve-change model the three fundamentally different types of work every organisation is doing simultaneously, and why collapsing them into "just work" is where things start to break. From there we unpack the confusion tax which is his term for the hidden financial and human cost of running an organisation that isn't designed to carry its own structural load. Think escalation loops, duplicated analysis, governance forums that exist purely for show, and the shadow work people quietly absorb to stop things falling over. We also cover the blocker and the ironist the two roles people get pushed into inside incoherent organisations, and why it's structural, not personality plus why good change management should be invisible, and what it actually takes to stress-test a new operating model before you find out under pressure that it doesn't hold. Stefan closes out with his See, Shape, Grow model and where to find his confusion tax diagnostic if you want to score your own organisation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefannorrvall/ https://scorecard.synexia.au/confusion-tax www.changeittalent.com

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  Stop Optimising. Start Humanising. The Capabilities We Need in an AI World ft Dara Simkin

  Jul 13, 202642 min

  Stop Optimising. Start Humanising. The Capabilities We Need in an AI World AI is accelerating. Change is constant. And everywhere we look, we’re being told to optimise, automate and become more productive. But what if the capabilities we need most in the future aren’t technical at all? In this episode of the Change It Podcast, I’m joined by Dara Simkin, globally recognised play-at-work expert and co-author of Full Stack Human , to explore what it means to stay human in an increasingly automated world. Dara shares why we may be misdiagnosing resistance to change, and why many people are actually experiencing anticipatory grief for a future they can sense but cannot yet see. Together, we explore the human capabilities that will help us not just survive change, but thrive through it: • Why play is a serious capability, not a distraction • How curiosity unlocks better thinking and innovation • Why intelligent optimism matters in a world full of uncertainty • How we build strategic hope and agency during disruption • Why adaptability starts with understanding ourselves For change leaders and transformation professionals, this conversation is a powerful reminder that the future of work will not just be shaped by what technology can do. It will be shaped by how well humans can connect, create, question, adapt and evolve. Because perhaps the answer isn’t becoming more machine-like. Perhaps it’s becoming more human. In this episode: — The emotional side of AI: are we resisting change or grieving it? — Why compassion and understanding ourselves matters in times of uncertainty — Play as the antidote to optimisation and overwhelm — Bringing play into the workplace: permission, space and spark — The five human capabilities we need in an AI world — Radical curiosity, intelligent optimism and strategic hope — Embodied adaptability: moving from panic and perfection into play — What this means for change leaders and the future of transformation — Defining success differently and finding more ease in uncertainty Connect with Dara: Website: darasimkin.com LinkedIn: Dara Simkin Book: Full Stack Human: https://www.amazon.com.au/Full-Stack-Human-Mindset-Technology/dp/1394346255 Connect with Eloise: Founder of Change It Talent www.changeittalent.com Host of the Change It Podcast

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