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The Change Room
Eighteen deep-dive episodes for experienced practitioners - real cases, hard truths, and the conversations that don't make it into the textbooks.
The Change Room is Change Academy's premium podcast series - longer, richer, and deliberately uncomfortable. Season 1: The Hard Yards. Six episodes on the parts of change management that polished conference talks never cover: the burning platform debate, what culture change actually takes, playing the politics, near-death transformations, change fatigue, and twenty years of hard-won wisdom. Season 2: The Second Order Effects. Six more episodes on what happens after launch: stalled adoption, performative metrics, AI rollout ambiguity, hidden operating-model shifts, overloaded middle managers, and the endings leaders rush past too quickly. Season 3: The Informal Organisation. Six episodes on the hidden system behind every formal plan: decision latency, trust debt, unofficial narratives, sponsor withdrawal, transformation theatre, and the fragile handback from program to business. Hosted by Ava and Andrew, with guest practitioners sharing field stories in their own words. No frameworks for the sake of it. Just honest, specific, practitioner-grade insight. Eighteen episodes. One hundred and eight minutes. The change conversations worth having.
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Login or sign up →Ep 1: The Burning Platform
Was the burning platform the most influential idea in change management - or the most dangerous? Ava argues the answer is both, and walks through exactly when to use it and when to put it down.
6 min
Ep 2: Culture Doesn't Change Overnight
Sarah spent three years and considerable budget trying to change a 6,000-person culture. In this episode she shares what actually moved the needle - and it wasn't what anyone planned.
6 min
Ep 3: Playing the Politics
Every change practitioner says they stay out of politics. Andrew explains why that position is both impossible and harmful - and why the practitioners who own their political role are the ones who get change across the line.
6 min
Ep 4: The Digital Transformation That Almost Wasn't
Eighteen months in, $40 million committed, and the CIO just withdrew sponsorship. Marcus walks Ava through the program that almost didn't survive - and the decisions that saved it.
6 min
Ep 5: Change Fatigue is Real
It shows up as disengagement, cynicism, and quiet exits - and by the time most leaders notice it, you're already behind. Ava and Andrew on the human cost of continuous change and what practitioners can actually do about it.
6 min
Ep 6: Twenty Years in the Room
After two decades and hundreds of programs, Sarah has three non-negotiables she won't compromise on regardless of client pressure. Andrew finds out what they are - and why.
6 min