Stop Forcing Change, Start Fueling It: How To Create Transformation That Doesn't Suck
Change Management • Flow States • Human Energy™ • Leadership Systems • Future Design™ • Strategic Transformation • Organizational Resilience
Only 12% of change initiatives succeed… and that number hasn’t improved in a decade.
Your teams are drowning in transformation projects. Leadership transitions. Tech upgrades. Process overhauls. Cultural shifts. Every single one requires people to change — and 88% of them fail.
The problem isn’t your strategy. It’s not your budget. It’s not even A.I.
The problem is fuel.
We’re trying to push change through systems that are running on empty and then we wonder why nothing sticks. We’re measuring everything except the one resource that makes transformation possible: Human Energy™.
Here’s what most leaders miss: Change never happens without energy to precede it. Yet we design transformation projects as if humans run on willpower alone. We pay attention to strategy but ignore the fuel that powers execution.
This keynote reveals the breakthrough research on flow states, energy optimization, and workplace design that explains why some changes soar while others crash — and gives you a practical framework to ensure YOUR changes succeed.
- Properly fuel your changes — Most change isn’t a strategy problem, it’s an energy problem because we don’t know how to fuel our changes. You’ll learn how to identify “human energy debt” and why you can’t push transformation through systems running on empty.
- Optimize humans for change — When people increase time in flow just 20%, productivity doubles. You’ll learn the simple question that reveals where your people’s energy actually lives and how to help them spend more time there.
- Design the missing ingredient into your systems — your job isn’t to blame the people, it’s to fix the system. You’ll see real data from 600+ employees showing measurable results in 90 days, and learn how the best leaders enable flow and eliminate friction.
The story behind this keynote...
A friend of mine from grad school nailed it: “People don’t like two things: when things change, and when things stay the same.”
Change usually energizes me, but I’ve watched it crush people who love learning — which is just another word for change (in disguise). At some point, it hit me: people don’t hate change. They hate change that sucks.
And wow, does most change suck. Even though we try not to, we end up rolling out “transformations” that suck the lifeforce out of everyone nearby. We don’t want it to be this way, but it always is.
This keynote was born from that irony. If change is inevitable, why are we so catastrophically bad at it? I went hunting through history, through physics, through studies with guinea pigs, and through boat races. What I found were genuinely shocking insights about how humans actually thrive through turmoil.
What emerged isn’t another “embrace disruption” pep talk. It’s a blueprint for turning the changes that drain us into systems that can help people thrive.
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