Jeff Wetherhold
Plans don't change people. Conversations do.​
​The statistics are clear. 88% of organizational changes produce no lasting results. Employees experiencing disruptive change are 75% more likely to be burnt out and 42% more likely to quit.
When you talk to people about how change goes in their organizations, their faces say even more. The hopelessness. The resignation. The eye rolls.
These aren't the price of change. They're the price of engagement left to chance.
Working together
I founded Change with Dignity to provide evidence-driven engagement skills for leaders and organizations, grounded in Motivational Interviewing. The approach is backed by research, tested at scale, and designed for everyday use. Learn more about how I work with leaders, organizations, and practitioners. ​
Speaking
I speak in-person and virtually to help leaders engage the people change depends on.
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Your audience has heard about the models. They've tried the plans. They need clear and practical guidance, grounded in evidence, for reaching the people they struggle to reach. These sessions address what traditional approaches leave out.​
Results
In a statewide initiative, this approach reached 400 leaders across 100+ organizations, producing 97% applied learning and a 40% improvement in change leadership capability.
My work is grounded in Motivational Interviewing, our most evidence-driven approach to engaging for behavior change, supported by more than 2,300 randomized controlled trials and 200 meta-analyses.​​
The book
Change with Dignity: Leading Others to Change Without Exhausting Yourself​
This forthcoming book provides a clear, step-by-step path to building your capability to engage those you struggle to reach. You can follow the thinking as it develops on Substack, and be among the first to know when it’s released.