Develop the core organizational change capability to continually transform and innovate.

Thriving in our complex 21st Century marketplace requires constant innovation and transformation. Organizations who build these Conscious Change Leadership skills into the very fabric of their culture will thrive. Those stuck in conventional, command and control approaches to leadership and change will fall behind as the world continues to evolve.

We can help your leaders and organization develop the
core capabilities of Conscious Change Leadership
to ensure long-term success.

Organizations with superior change leadership capability stay ahead in the marketplace.

You need leaders throughout your organization who do not just manage operations, but can also see into the future and the transformational paths required to achieve breakthrough results in it. You need Conscious Change Leaders, with open minds and big perspectives, who can unleash human performance, build positive cultures and consistently lead change successfully.

We can help you turn your leaders into Conscious Change Leaders who deliver superior results from change.

Opening leaders’ minds and expanding their perspective are essential.

Research shows that 80% of leaders are “in over their heads.” The complexity they face is beyond their capacity to see and address the dynamics at play. Leaders must personally transform, develop “vertically” and expand their consciousness to be able to solve your biggest strategic challenges.

We can open your leaders’ minds, expand their worldview and teach them to solve previously unsolvable challenges.

Co-creative cultures catalyze greater human performance, innovation and results.

Command and control cultures tend to stifle innovation and human expression. Co-creative cultures – based in trust, learning and collaboration – out-perform. They bring out the best in people, support risk taking and innovation, and ensure ongoing learning and development.

We can help you transform your culture to support ongoing change, learning and development as core capabilities.

Comprehensive change process methodologies that address mindset, behavior, culture and systems are most effective.

Leading transformation and innovation is complex, with many moving parts. High failure rates occur because leaders use conventional methodologies that are partial, myopic and insufficient. Most under-attend to people, including culture, mindset and behavior. They mainly address “content solutions” and are too rigid and prescriptive for the dynamic nature of transformation. Using change process methodologies that inform action from start to finish and honor the people and process dynamics of transformation are essential.

We can provide your change leaders comprehensive change process methodologies that guide their decisions and actions, so everything needed is addressed.

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Transform & Achieve Breakthrough: An Intro to Conscious Change Leadership

Develop Conscious Change Leadership Capability across your organization.

Including all three levels of development is key to building Conscious Change Leadership capability in your organization:

WHITE PAPER

THE STRATEGIC CHANGE OFFICE
How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Transformational Change
Succeeding at transformational change is a requirement in today’s marketplace. But as change has become more complex, the failure rate has increased. This white paper outlines a radical new approach to building your organization’s transformational change capability.

Six Key Strategies will ensure your success.

These strategies are foundational to building a culture of Conscious Change Leadership capability.

Enterprise Change Disciplines

Enterprise Change Disciplines
These ensure that all your change leaders operate with a common language and known best practices, and continually learn from each other.
Download White Paper >

Comprehensive Change Methodologies

Comprehensive Change Methodologies
The Breakthrough Process and The Change Leader’s Roadmap Methodology will instantly elevate the capability of your change leaders. These are strategic guidance systems that enable your leaders to consistently design and implement complex transformation successfully.
Learn more >

Self-Mastery Leadership Training

Self-Mastery Leadership Training
Self-mastery training develops your leaders from the inside out, opening their minds, changing behavior, making them better models, and improving their ability to see solutions to complex challenges and how to implement them.
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Change Leadership Development

Change Leadership Development
This development builds specific change capabilities in key stakeholder groups: executives, sponsors, change project leaders and teams, HR business leads, internal change consultants, mid-managers and the workforce.
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Change Consultant Development

Change Consultant Development
We develop super-users – internal consultants who acquire advanced skills and become indispensable advisors to your senior leaders and change initiative leads and teams. These advisors are integral to the transference of our expertise into your organization
Learn more >

Change Community of Practice

Change Community of Practice
Run by your internal super-users and supported as needed by Being First, your CoP will ensure your change leaders and internal consultants continually develop and share best practices while supporting one another’s projects.
Learn more >

Six Key Strategies will ensure your success.

These strategies are foundational to building a culture of Conscious Change Leadership capability.

Enterprise Change Disciplines

Enterprise Change Disciplines
These ensure that all your change leaders operate with a common language and known best practices, and continually learn from each other.
Download White Paper >

Comprehensive Change Methodologies

Comprehensive Change Methodologies
The Breakthrough Process and The Change Leader’s Roadmap Methodology will instantly elevate the capability of your change leaders. These are strategic guidance systems that enable your leaders to consistently design and implement complex transformation successfully.
Learn more >

Self-Mastery Leadership Training

Self-Mastery Leadership Training
Self-mastery training develops your leaders from the inside out, opening their minds, changing behavior, making them better models, and improving their ability to see solutions to complex challenges and how to implement them.
Learn more >

Change Leadership Development

Change Leadership Development
This development builds specific change capabilities in key stakeholder groups: executives, sponsors, change project leaders and teams, HR business leads, internal change consultants, mid-managers and the workforce.
Learn more >

Change Consultant Development

Change Consultant Development
We develop super-users – internal consultants who acquire advanced skills and become indispensable advisors to your senior leaders and change initiative leads and teams. These advisors are integral to the transference of our expertise into your organization
Learn more >

Change Community of Practice

Change Community of Practice
Run by your internal super-users and supported as needed by Being First, your CoP will ensure your change leaders and internal consultants continually develop and share best practices while supporting one another’s projects.
Learn more >

CLIENT CASE

CLIENT CASE

Leaders Develop a Strategic Process to Better Manage Its Portfolio of Change, Resources and Capacity

Recognizing the fallacy of saying “yes” to every good change project, a strategic team of leaders crafted a process, system and protocols to better manage its tidal wave of change and bring a structured process for leading its enterprise change agenda.

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CLIENT CASE

Change Leadership Capability Improves Healthcare Performance

Facing a growing roster of required change initiatives to increase the organization’s performance, a large healthcare system utilizes the Change Leader’s Roadmap Methodology to up-level its change leadership capability, resulting in an increased speed of implementation, optimized use of resources, and improved procedural effectiveness, patient safety, and employee satisfaction.

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CLIENT CASE

Healthcare System Increases Patient Safety and System Integration

The leaders of a sophisticated, ten-hospital healthcare system transform their organization and culture – including mindsets and behavior – to deliver breakthroughs in patient safety, system integration and collaboration. Ultimately, their success saved lives.

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CLIENT CASE

Microsoft Sales Organization Undergoes Its Most Successful Change Initiative Ever

An innovative sales organization begins a multi-year journey of becoming more agile and better aligned to their customers, building change leadership capability along the way, resulting in breakthrough results from their strategic change initiatives.

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CLIENT CASE

Utility Successfully Realigns Thirty Districts into Six Regions and Strengthens its Culture

Challenged by the historical culture of field autonomy and the prevalence of command-and-control leadership, a major Utility’s corporate leaders implement strategic change initiatives to transform the company to optimize costs, better serve customers, and reduce competitive differences among its districts.

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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

"A thinking discipline for how I support change initiatives across our enterprise...”
“After 18 months using our license to The Change Leader's Roadmap, we realize it is not just a resource we can access every day to support our execution of specific changes but has become a thinking discipline for how I support change initiatives across our enterprise.”
Deb Chobotuk
Corporate Organization Development Specialist
Saskatoon Health Region

"Their approach makes the change leadership process understandable, clear, and actionable—so you can succeed..."
“Being First brings its many decades of practical experience in supporting leaders in system-wide change to their Approach. It makes explicit the relationships among mindset, leadership actions, project planning, and complex change. While it's never easy to accomplish complex change at an enterprise level, their Approach makes the change leadership process understandable, clear, and actionable—so you can succeed.”
Katheryn Goldman Schuyler, Ph.D.
Marshal Goldsmith School of Management
Alliant International University

"A must for anyone responsible for complex, large-scale change efforts..."
“The Change Leader’s Roadmap provides access to a rare experience: creating real, transformational change in a grounded, easy-to-understand manner. This is a must for anyone responsible for complex, large-scale change efforts.”
Debbie King
Organization Development Leader
Kaiser Permanente

"Essential for anyone managing complex change..."
“This approach is essential for anyone managing complex change, especially today’s healthcare leaders. It's a comprehensive and practical system that will significantly increase your likelihood of success and lower your risk of costly setbacks. Based on 15 years of experience managing complex clinical and operational change, I highly recommend Being First.”
John Haughom
MD, Senior VP, Clinical Quality and Patient Safety
Peace Heatlh

"Strategies and tools for leaders using strategic change as a competitive advantage..."
“Being First captures the science and the art of orchestrating organizational change by providing both practical and insightful strategies and tools for leaders who must use strategic change as a thoughtful competitive advantage.”
Jackie Alcalde Marr
Director, Org and Talent Development
Oracle US

"A practical approach to large-scale change and transformation..."
“If you've been searching for a practical approach to large-scale change and transformation, the Being First Approach is it.”
Sue G. Murphy
CEO
Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center

"Unquestionably the experts in LEADING transformation in business...”
“Being First has broken the code by integrating the leadership of people and culture with business content to deliver results from organizational change. They are unquestionably the experts in LEADING transformation in business.”
Pete Fox
GM, Corporate Accounts
Microsoft

“Being First guides leaders safely through the turbulence of leading change..."
“Being First guides leaders safely through the turbulence of leading change, helping them mitigate the transformational dangers of overwhelm, chaos and uncertainty. Whether you are launching new products, restructuring, cutting costs or growing, you’ll learn how to take effective action with confidence.”
Faith Ralston
President
Faith Ralston and Company

"Useful insight into how to address the dynamics of transformational change..."
“The Change Leader's Roadmap provided very useful insight into how to address the dynamics of transformational change. It also was a valuable lesson on the importance of my role in successful transformational change.”
John Bishop
VP of Operations
State Farm Insurance

"An approach based on decades of experience for executives leading strategy..."
“Based on decades of experience, Being First draws you into the world of what’s possible in change. Our development was engaging, tangible, practical and compelling! Their approach is applicable to executives leading strategy, Operations, change consultants and Learning and Development specialists.”
Barbara Plumley
VP, Regional Operations
HealthCare Partners Medical Group

"Unquestionably the best transformational change approach I have found..."
“Being First provides - unquestionably - the best transformational change approach I have found in 20 years working with organizations. They have a comprehensive blueprint for well planned, results-oriented change that balances discipline, innovation and the human dynamics of change.”
Nancy Dill
Principal
Business Solutions Consulting

"The most relevant and applicable approaches to advancing change successfully..."
“Even the expert and experienced change practitioner will be humbled by this approach. It brings together the most relevant and applicable approaches to advancing change successfully, but more importantly, it fills the gap we all fundamentally need—how to move ourselves and our organizations to achieve transformative change.”
Polly Ragusa
Director, Organization and Learning Development
Cisco

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Given the global pandemic, digitization and our social, economic, and environmental challenges, continual change and transformation is our new normal. Thriving in this complexity requires masterful change leadership skills.
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THE STRATEGIC CHANGE OFFICE

How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Transformational Change

Succeeding at transformational change is a requirement in today’s marketplace. But as change has become more complex, the failure rate has increased. This white paper outlines a radical new approach to building your organization’s transformational change capability that ensures enterprise-wide success.

By: Drs. Dean Anderson and Linda Ackerman Anderson

WHITE PAPER

THE STRATEGIC CHANGE OFFICE

How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Transformational Change

WHITE PAPER

BUILDING CHANGE CAPABILITY: Leading Change As a Strategic Discipline

WHITE PAPER

BUILDING CHANGE CAPABILITY Leading Change As a Strategic Discipline

Strong change capability is vital to organizational success. The evidence is clear that we need to be better at leading and delivering on change. This white paper explores how to build your organization’s change capability through leading change as a strategic organizational discipline.

By: Drs. Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson

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Develop the core organizational change capability to continually transform and innovate.

We can help your leaders and organization develop the core capabilities of Conscious Change Leadership to ensure long-term success.

Organizations with superior change leadership capability stay ahead in the marketplace.

Opening leaders’ minds and expanding their perspective are essential.

Co-creative cultures catalyze greater human performance, innovation and results.

Comprehensive change process methodologies that address mindset, behavior, culture and systems are most effective.

Develop Conscious Change Leadership Capability across your organization.

Six Key Strategies will ensure your success.

Enterprise Change Disciplines

Enterprise Change Disciplines

Comprehensive Change Methodologies

Comprehensive Change Methodologies

Self-Mastery Leadership Training

Self-Mastery Leadership Training

Change Leadership Development

Change Leadership Development

Change Consultant Development

Change Consultant Development

Change Community of Practice

Change Community of Practice

Six Key Strategies will ensure your success.

Enterprise Change Disciplines

Enterprise Change Disciplines

Comprehensive Change Methodologies

Comprehensive Change Methodologies

Self-Mastery Leadership Training

Self-Mastery Leadership Training

Change Leadership Development

Change Leadership Development

Change Consultant Development

Change Consultant Development

Change Community of Practice

Change Community of Practice

CLIENT CASE

CLIENT CASE

Leaders Develop a Strategic Process to Better Manage Its Portfolio of Change, Resources and Capacity

CLIENT CASE

Change Leadership Capability Improves Healthcare Performance

CLIENT CASE

Healthcare System Increases Patient Safety and System Integration

CLIENT CASE

Microsoft Sales Organization Undergoes Its Most Successful Change Initiative Ever

CLIENT CASE

Utility Successfully Realigns Thirty Districts into Six Regions and Strengthens its Culture

"A thinking discipline for how I support change initiatives across our enterprise...”

"Their approach makes the change leadership process understandable, clear, and actionable—so you can succeed..."

"A must for anyone responsible for complex, large-scale change efforts..."

"Essential for anyone managing complex change..."

"Strategies and tools for leaders using strategic change as a competitive advantage..."

"A practical approach to large-scale change and transformation..."

"Unquestionably the experts in LEADING transformation in business...”

“Being First guides leaders safely through the turbulence of leading change..."

"Useful insight into how to address the dynamics of transformational change..."

"An approach based on decades of experience for executives leading strategy..."

"Unquestionably the best transformational change approach I have found..."

"The most relevant and applicable approaches to advancing change successfully..."

Ready to increase your organization’s Conscious Change Leadership capability?

WHITE PAPER

THE STRATEGIC CHANGE OFFICE

How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Transformational Change

WHITE PAPER

THE STRATEGIC CHANGE OFFICE

How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Transformational Change

BUILDING CHANGE CAPABILITY: Leading Change As a Strategic Discipline

BUILDING CHANGE CAPABILITY Leading Change As a Strategic Discipline

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We can help your leaders and organization develop the
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