Leadership & Change
Is Your Leadership the Reason Business Change Keeps Failing?
Most organisations have that leader – the one whose approach sends teams into silent resistance or open revolt. The uncomfortable truth? Two-thirds of leaders are doing exactly that, often without realising.
So before you assume it’s “the workforce” blocking progress, ask yourself: is this me? Or is it the colleague everyone quietly avoids during times of change?
In this conversation, we reveal why 79% of employees no longer believe the promises of change, how leadership behaviours are fuelling stress and distrust, and what the best-performing organisations are doing to make change stick – and grow revenue at twice the pace.
This goes far deeper than change management. It’s a wake-up call for leaders whose old habits are costing their organisation far more than they think.
Watch the discussion now.
This goes far deeper than change management. It’s a wake-up call for leaders whose old habits are costing their organisation far more than they think.
Watch the discussion now.
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Is your leadership the reason business change keeps failing?
A visual guide to what leaders get wrong, why they become blockers, and how to build capability that delivers. Insights from Oliver Wight’s panel discussion on leadership and change.
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Oliver Wight
Thought Piece
Why Embedding Change Is Harder than Designing It – and What to Do About It
You’ve built the vision and co-created the design. Now comes the part most organisations get wrong: making change stick when people’s instinct is to revert to what they know.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
How Co-Creation Builds the Change Capability Your Organisation Actually Needs
Leadership commitment means nothing without the people who translate vision into practice. The Enable phase of Oliver Wight’s change approach is where change stops being a leadership ambition and starts becoming organisational reality.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
Why Real Business Change Starts with Leaders Not Processes
If you’re not prepared to change first, don’t expect anyone else to follow. Oliver Wight’s change methodology places leadership at the centre for good reason: it’s where most change programmes succeed or fail.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
Why Sponsors Hold the Key to Change Programmes That Actually Stick
You’ve been asked to sponsor a change initiative. It’s a vote of confidence in your leadership. Understanding the true demands of sponsorship is the first step to meeting them.
Ben Collins
Partner
Thought Piece
Leaders: This is How You Turn Relentless Change into Competitive Advantage
Your people are exhausted. Your change programmes keep stalling. Here are tips to break the cycle, starting with how you chunk, integrate, and build capability that lasts.
Les Brookes
Partner
Thought Piece
What You’re Getting Wrong About Your Role as a Leader in Business Change
You signed off on the budget and announced the vision. Job done? Two-thirds of change programmes fail not due to strategy or technology, but because leaders misunderstand the true demands of their role. This likely includes you.
Kirsty Braines
Partner
Thought Piece
Why You, as a Leader, Fail the Change Tests Your People Are Watching
Leaders rarely see themselves as blockers. Yet your behaviour at critical moments—the budget review, the resourcing decision, the daily firefight —reveals a gap between intention and action that explains why most change programmes fail.
Monte Maritz
Partner
Most leaders believe their job is to set direction, allocate resources, and hold teams accountable. But truly effective leadership in change requires much more: a fundamental shift in how you behave and engage.Kirsty Braines, Partner at Oliver Wight
If you're willing to go there, set out the change. If you're not willing, wait until you are. Because launching without genuine commitment wastes the goodwill of everyone you're asking to follow.Les Brookes, Partner at Oliver Wight
People aren't resisting change. They're resisting the likelihood of failure. They've learned, through painful experience, that leader enthusiasm at launch rarely survives contact with reality.Monte Maritz, Partner at Oliver Wight
Why Oliver Wight is your change management partner
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