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Engage the people change depends on

Leading change starts with engaging the people who are hard to reach. That's a skill you can learn.

Plans don't change people. Conversations do.​

​88% of organizational change efforts produce no lasting results. This leads to disengagement and turnover. These aren't the price of change. They're the price of engagement left to chance.

Start with clarity

You've tried to get better at leading change, but it's never felt like you've gotten ahead of it. Every time you look for guidance, someone makes the problem bigger, more complex, and more expensive. 

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​Let’s start with clarity. Organizations change when individuals choose to change. Those choices are the product of engagement. 

Working together

Training builds capability. Systems sustain results. I help leaders and organizations build both for durable change.​

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Leaders

Build evidence-driven engagement skills for the practical, high-pressure conversations change depends on. 

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Practitioners

Bring a tailored approach to Motivational Interviewing to leaders and organizations.

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Organizations

Translate skills into organizational capability that holds at scale. 

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Speaking

Your audience has heard the frameworks. Give them clear and practical guidance on 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.

 

The approach draws on Motivational Interviewing, our most evidence-driven approach to engaging for behavior change, supported by more than 2,300 randomized controlled trials.​

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Clients include MIT, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the State of Illinois.

Read more

The approach behind this work is the subject of a book in progress. You can follow the the work as it develops.

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What Clients Notice

Dr. M. Salman Ashraf

Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

"Jeff is an outstanding educator and coach. He has been amazing in tailoring his presentations to the needs of the audience. I have always heard glowingly positive feedback from those who he has coached during the last 3 years of working with us."

Start with Clarity

Change starts with engagement. You should start with clarity.

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