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Why is leading change this hard?

We gave you all the responsibility and half of the skills. It’s time to fix that.

Who do you need to reach?

Leading change starts with engaging them, clearly and confidently. That's not about charisma or persistence. It's a skill you can build, for yourself and your team.
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88% of organizational change efforts produce no lasting impact. That's not the price of change. It's the price of engagement left to chance

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Built for your work

Change with Dignity adapts Motivational Interviewing, the most evidence-driven approach to behavior change we have, to the workplace.


Programs are designed with expertise in adult learning and behavioral science. In your daily work, you default to what you've practiced, not what you've been told. Learn how to use skills in the real, high-pressure conversations where you need them most. 

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The simple idea underneath of this: you can't make people change, and you don't have to. Leading change with dignity means working with them.

Working together

Leaders

Build the skills to reach the people change depends on. 

Practitioners

For practitioners who teach Motivational Interviewing. Learn how to bring it to leaders and organizations. 

Organizations

Translate evidence-driven engagement skills into a core organizational capability.

Speaking

Jeff Wetherhold provides clear and practical guidance on engaging others in change.

Proof

In a statewide initiative, this approach reached 400 leaders across more than 100 organizations, producing 97% applied learning and a 40% improvement in change-leadership capability.

 

These methods are grounded in decades of evidence and designed for the work you do every day.

The book

Change with Dignity: Leading Others to Change Without Exhausting Yourself is a forthcoming book on the engagement skills change leaders need to succeed.​

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Follow along to learn more about the ideas before the book lands.​

About Jeff

Jeff Wetherhold started Change with Dignity to help more people reach across differences and lead change in their organizations and communities. He brings two decades supporting mission-driven organizations and a deep grounding in Motivational Interviewing to this work.
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Let's talk

Change starts with engagement. You should start with clarity.

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