Workplace Changemaker Stories and Strategies

Workplace Changemaker Stories and Strategies
We’re excited to learn more about your successes and challenges as a changemaker. Your story and the strategies you use will be inspirational for other changemakers creating thriving workplace cultures.

Each year we will announce a Changemaker of the Year who will win a free seat in our Changemaker Coaching Collaborative worth $10,000

We will also invite successful Changemakers on our podcast Leading Real Change and share selected Changemaker stories on LinkedIn to inspire others.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey and share your story.

About you as a Changemaker in the workplace
Please start by telling us a little about your identity, your leading change role, and the industry you work in.
I identify as ...
List all factors that are important for who you are as a person and leader
My role in leading change is ...
Describe the role you play in organizational change
My company and industry are ...
Describe your organization and the industry you are working in

About your workplace change projects
Please tell us about the specific change projects you have worked on, are working on currently, or would like to work on in future that are important for a thriving workplace culture.

Paying Employee Resource Group (ERG) LeadersCollecting and sharing DEI dataSetting DEI targetsPaid parental leavePay equitySubsidized childcare supportOther (please specify below)
Other change projects I'm involved in:

Your workplace Success Story
Please describe the successful change you led including details about what changed, who it impacted, how you created change, and what was the result of the change.
What barriers are you currently facing in your role as a changemaker?
Personal Barriers
e.g. exhaustion
Professional Barriers
e.g. lack of reward
Corporate Barriers
e.g. decision maker resistance, policies

	Yes	No	I'd like to learn more
A vision for a healthy diverse workplace
A road map with action steps to get you to your goals
A clear list of priorities
Communicating transparently early and often about your long term plans
A logic model and hypotheses for why your solutions will work
Mapping the existing system you are working in
Uncovering the root causes of employee problems
Understanding resistance to change in decision makers
Identifying the key people who influence the decision makers
Getting an executive sponsor
Aligning your goals to the priorities of decision makers
Matching your program to important business outcomes
Selecting key behaviors that will be most impactful
Role modeling to demonstrate the desired behaviors out loud
Providing logistical or motivational support for others to adopt new behaviors
Developing confidence in others to overcome barriers through incremental challenges
Creating safe spaces for other to practice new skills that will support the change process
Assessing policies, procedures and practices that conflict with the desired new behaviors
Providing a menu of choices and alternative solutions to decision makers and employees
Using case studies from successful companies to inspire confidence
Empowering changemakers by providing skills development
Empowering changemakers by paying them
Creating social learning opportunities with other passionate changemakers
Using equal governance and shared decision making to find solutions
Using small group experiments and pilot studies to evaluate potential solutions
Using learning cycles and feedback loops for quality improvement
Sharing ownership of solutions with the end users
Ensuring diverse teams of decision-makers
Engaging champions to share best practices and make benefits more visible
Acknowledging the strengths of the old system that can support the new system
Understanding the concerns of system stabilizers
Using persuasion techniques to turn a no into a yes
Addressing resistance to change using loss aversion and social comparison tactics
Using data to support your case effectively
Using stories of struggles and successful change to elicit empathy
Setting benchmarks for progress using key indicators
Visualizing progress towards goals and highlighting gaps in a shared data dashboard
Sharing data back to the people who provided it
Learning from employee exit interviews
Identifying administrative barriers to change
Sharing best practice guides widely
Demonstrating return on investment
Sharing lessons learned
Employing incentives and rewards to reinforce new social norms
Defining consequences for inappropriate behavior
Codifying the change in organizational values, policies, practices and procedures

Workplace Changemaker Stories and Strategies

About you as a Changemaker in the workplace

About your workplace change projects

Change Strategies

Your workplace Success Story

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