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Thought-provoking articles on resilience, change, and well-being from Linda Hoopes and selected guest authors.

Change Management Classics: Burning Platform

Have you ever referred to an initiative as a burning platform? Do you hate the term and wish it would go away? Do you know the story behind it? This is the sixth in a series of articles focused on classic elements of change management content, updated and...

Helping Others After a Disaster

Several years from now, we will look back at people who lived through the hurricane season of 2017 (Harvey, Irma, Maria, etc.) and see that some of them are thriving while others have never recovered from the catastrophe. This was true for Hurricane Katrina in New...

Change Management Classics: Realization

Change Management Classics: Realization

Are your change initiatives positioned to realize the full benefits you promised to deliver? Or are you simply installing a solution and trusting that the results will follow? This is the fifth in a series of articles focused on classic elements of change management...

Building Resilience: 4 Steps Inspired by Survivors

We all wish that life could be smooth and always full of joy. Unfortunately, adversities can hit unexpectedly, testing our resources and our ability to cope. Rather than letting these challenges drag our lives down, we can build resilience to help us recover more...

Six Resilience Insights from the 2017 Eclipse

If you live in the US, chances are that you spent at least part of Monday, August 21 viewing the eclipse that traveled across the country; you may even have traveled to a location where you could see the totality. No matter where you are in the world, you have almost...

Change Management Classics: Resistance to Change

Change Management Classics: Resistance to Change

This is the fourth in a series of articles focused on classic elements of change management content, updated and augmented with my own perspectives and experience. In the first post, Strategic Risk Factors, I have provided some of the history behind this series. The...

The Opposite of Resilience

Resilience can be evaluated by the outcomes that a person achieves when they encounter challenges. By reflecting on contributors to resilient and non-resilient outcomes, we can learn how to strengthen resilience.

Leading with Energy

Over the last few years, I have become increasingly interested in the role energy plays in resilience. Although the resilience characteristics help people use their energy more effectively when they encounter change, what happens when people don't have a lot of energy...

Resilience Lessons on the Chesapeake

Summer is a great time for getting outside and having adventures. And adventures are a great way to build your resilience. When you try something new, you typically encounter things you've never done before. Sometimes these things are exciting, but sometimes they are...

Virtual Change Management Summit

Virtual Change Management Summit

Linda will be a speaker on the upcoming Change Management Review™ Virtual Change Management Summit. It takes place Wednesday, July 12, 2017 –and it brings together some of the leading lights of the Change Management industry, all in one place. Here’s why you should...

Free Webinar with Brian Gorman

Join Linda and Professional Coach, Brian Gorman, Friday, June 30th at Noon Eastern time for a free webinar discussing Linda's new book, "Prosilience: Building Resilience for a Turbulent World". Click here to register!

Change Management Classics: Strategic Risk Areas

I started my change management career in 1991, as the research director for ODR, a company founded by Daryl Conner that trained many of the senior change agents practicing today. The tools and concepts developed by ODR, and the ideas proposed in Daryl’s first book...

Prosilience At Work

Prosilience is about intentionally building the capability to deal with a range of challenges, including those that come with organizational change. If you are a leader or change agent in your organization, here are 5 things you can do to promote prosilience at work:...

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