If you've worked in any company with more than 50 people, chances are you've been part of a "change strategy" at some point in your career. If you've been tasked with leading the change, I feel your pain.  And so does our guest, Charlotte Blum, PhD. Charlotte is a Berlin-based psychologist, with a double specialization in clinical and business psychology. Charlotte got her PhD while working full time in different projects, which allowed her to research and test very practical concepts on the field. Her findings, which she'll tell us more about, were surprising and unexpected. She is currently the Director of Change & Organisational Design at the Edding Group. In that role, she supports the company in managing change and equipping leaders to guide teams successfully through the challenges related to change, big and small.  This episode is all about demystifying change at the company level. And based on Charlotte's research and work on the field, companies have been setting up their leaders to fail when asking them to lead a big change. If this has been your experience, know you're not alone! It turns out that about 75% of change initiatives don't work out. Yikes! But there is hope. Tune in to hear Charlotte and I talk about: Why values-based alignment is absolutely KEY for leaders undertaking change and transition with their teams. How companies actually fail their managers tasked with leading change, what's missing and what can be done to avoid this scenario. Hint: It has something to do with a little thing called trust. And we get into Charlotte's unorthodox approach to change, which leads to more buy-in from team members during the change process. She will also share with us the BIG consideration that's missing from every change process timeline that she's seen. This episode is so refreshing because it turned many of the so-called "best practices" of organizational change on their head, and shows us why, in 2024, transformation done the old way no longer works.     Where you can find Charlotte online: Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-charlotte-blum/ Instagram: @blumencharlotte     And to learn more about Charlotte's full career trajectory:     Charlotte Blum  is a psychologist, double specialized in clinical and business psychology. She got her Diploma at the university of Osnabrück and her PhD at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Her research interests are the experience and behaviour of leaders during organizational change. Charlotte got her PhD while working fulltime in different stations. While she discovered her research questions while working for an executive coach, she the moved on to working at Deutsche Bahn undergoing a major merger, at Femtec as Head of Careerbuilding. Charlotte the went ahead to build the AllBright Academy for the AllBright Foundation. The AllBright Academy aims to enable leaders to understand and lead diversity as a change process. During this time she was also a visiting lecturer at the ESCP for Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Charlotte co-founded the Beyond. Berlin, a sports community focusing on diversity and inclusion, which strives to connect people from all over the world with different backgrounds and histories, different skill levels and goals but united in their passion for people and the community itself.   As Director Change & Organisational Design at the edding Group Charlotte support the edding Group to manage change and to equip their leaders to lead their employees successfully through our strategic, everyday and change challenges. Her aim is to always work on a holistic, inclusive and future driven base in order to successfully support the profit-for strategy.  As a speaker she supports organisations in their quests towards change. Charlotte talks about the Change Leadership Model she created in her PhD research and also about how to bring more diversity in organisations and their top management. She strongly believe that this brings positive change for everybody. Creating more diverse and inclusive organisations and empowering women to advance their careers is something is a topic really close to her heart. As a business coach and change consultant,  Charlotte leverages her background in clinical and business psychology and her PhD research on leadership and change ("Chances and Challenges for Leaders in Change") to design and deliver impactful formats and tools for leaders and organisations in all her endeavours.

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