Best Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson Podcasts (2025)

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40. The Ten Most Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change, Part 2 34:05

3M ago34:05

34:05

Using the ten most common mistakes as an assessment of your organization’s current reality in leading change is a powerful way to identify the costliest of the mistakes. Only then can leaders and internal change support resources look at how the mistakes come to happen and options for how to reduce their negative impact or avoid them completely. Th…

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39. Ten Most Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change, Part 1 27:50

3M ago27:50

27:50

Over 45 years of observing organizations undergoing major change, we have identified ten of the most common mistakes leaders make, and often repeat, to the detriment of their desired outcomes. This episode outlines these mistakes and discusses some of the underlying causes of them. It makes the case that most organizations can benefit from objectiv…

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38. Leading Change As A Strategic Discipline 33:49

4M ago33:49

33:49

While leading major change efforts is happening in all organizations, the effectiveness given the multitude of ways it is led produces vastly different results. This episode outlines making change a strategic discipline, much like Finance, Human Resources and IT. Change is not going away and it deserves strategic oversight to ensure all change is d…

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37. Personal Interview with Joe Rafter, Business and Social Change Leader 39:23

4M ago39:23

39:23

Joe Rafter has spent his career achieving results in a vast array of organizations and specializing the Change Leadership. In one chapter of his career, he stood up an Enterprise Change Management function at Pacific Gas and Electric. He is an advocate for leadership and personal self-awareness, modeling effective culture, and pursing true adoption…

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36. Enlightening Interview with Donna Brighton, Chief Ideas Officer, Brighton Leadership Group 45:34

5M ago45:34

45:34

Donna Brighton brings decades of experience to the change leadership field as well as self-mastery and continuous learning. She is a founding Board Member and Past-President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) helping to shape the profession. She empowers leaders and teams to unlock their full potential, consistently drivin…

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35. Catalyzing Organizational Energy for Change, Part II 27:17

5M ago27:17

27:17

In Part II of Linda’s overview of organizational energy dynamics, she builds on doing an Energy Scan to identify and assess current energy dynamics in the organization undergoing change and explores strategies to mitigate or strengthen each of the five elements of energy on behalf of realigning them to produce your desired outcomes from change. She…

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34. Managing Organizational Energy for Results 41:26

6M ago41:26

41:26

Linda shares this powerful, non-traditional approach to assessing the ability of an organization to achieve results from change---through understanding and influencing the organization’s energy dynamics. Linda describes organizational energy as the fuel to make change happen and outlines five elements of energy dynamics that exist in every organiza…

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33. Candid Interview with Jake Jacobs: Inventor of Real-time Strategic Change 38:21

6M ago38:21

38:21

Jake Jacobs has been around the change block many times over. One of his greatest contributions in the field of Large-Scale Change Interventions is Real-Time Strategic Change. Jake shares with Linda hs history, current work focus, and advice on the next edge of the Change field for both leaders and consultants. Come meet the man and hear his insigh…

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32. Creating Critical Mass: A Powerful and Essential Strategy to Generate Momentum for Change 20:31

7M ago20:31

20:31

Most Change Management practitioners rightly focus a lot of energy and attention on managing their stakeholders to overcome resistance and adopt the future state. While helpful, this does not guarantee generating the amount of momentum required for a project to achieve its desired outcomes. This episode introduces how to create a critical mass of e…

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31. Direct from the Source! Ten Essential Strategies to Succeed at Your Transformational Changes 47:38

7M ago47:38

47:38

How to ensure your transformational changes succeed? In this episode, Dr. Dean Anderson and Linda (Dr. Change), founders of this work, describe Being First’s Leading Transformational Change online program that features ten best practice strategies essential for succeeding at transformational change. They describe the essence of each strategy and th…

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30. Turning Resistance to Change into Commitment 33:28

8M ago33:28

33:28

This episode presents guidance for dealing with both leader and stakeholder resistance to change. It’s essential to understand the human dynamics underlying resistance, how it shows up, and how to support the process of people becoming committed and aligned to change. It explores how we as leaders and consultants need to show up and be skilled at s…

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29. How to Get People’s Attention When Current Reality is Entrenched 19:18

8M ago19:18

19:18

Most organizations with long and successful histories are tough to change. Yet change they must. How can leaders get the attention of their managers and stakeholders that a major change is needed, coming and serious? This episode describes the strategy of Bold Actions that do just this! Leaders must consciously alert their organizations to make nec…

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28. Rethinking Project Scope: Expanding Attention to All Priorities 28:50

9M ago28:50

28:50

While every major change effort has a defined scope, most are incomplete and often need to be expanded to achieve desired outcomes. This episode highlights the areas required to define a full scope, one that ensures better outcomes and influences the initial definition of project budget and timeline. Scope needs to focus on the content of the chang…

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27. Candid Interview with Theresa Moulton, Editor-in-Chief of the Change Management Review 24:23

9M ago24:23

24:23

Theresa Moulton is one of the Change Management superstars supporting the field and pushing its edges after 25 years of experience and relentless entrepreneurial spirit. She shares her journey to this esteemed position of both delivering change and coaching services to clients and leading one of the most highly regarded online resources for organiz…

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26. Conscious Change Leadership: the Future of Organizational Change 27:53

9M ago27:53

27:53

Andrew Johnson, Master Coach and Being First Associate, interviews Linda about her views on leaders and consultants taking on the Conscious Change Leadership approach to the transformations they require or serve. Linda openly discusses this as the cutting edge and necessity for the field of change leadership. To watch the full video version of this…

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25. Andrew Johnson, Shares His Journey to Become a Conscious Change Leader 30:48

10M ago30:48

30:48

In this episode, Linda interviews Andrew Johnson, Master Coach and Being First Associate. Andrew has traveled the entire development road with Being First to become a Conscious Change Leader. He exemplifies the candor, authenticity, knowledge and foresight so essential to meet today’s challenges. Come hear this man’s perspectives on his journey and…

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24. How to Achieve Full Stakeholder Adoption in Transformational Change 34:05

10M ago34:05

34:05

What is change adoption and why is it so difficult to achieve and sustain? In this episode, Dr. Change reveals the work required to obtain adoption by exploring how to support stakeholders to fully integrate a project’s new state into their daily ways of operating and then master it for optimal and sustained results. As a major focus of Change Mana…

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23. What Kind Of Change Consultant Are You? 18:39

11M ago18:39

18:39

With major change so widespread in organizations, the need for internal and external consulting support has grown exponentially—as have the number and kinds of change consultants to service it. We change consultants come in many shapes and sizes. Which are you… and are you playing the best and highest value role you can? This episode describes a r…

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22. Leading Organization-Wide Transformation with an Enterprise Change Agenda 31:14

11M ago31:14

31:14

Most organizations today are fraught with so much change that it’s hard for leaders to stay on top of everything they are asking of the organization. In this episode, Linda describes the need for and elements of the Enterprise Change Agenda, a proven mechanism to organize and coordinate an organization’s priority initiatives so they can realistical…

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21. Beyond Change Management: Requirements To Lead Transformational Change 37:17

12M ago37:17

37:17

Most organizational change efforts rely on the tried-and-true approaches of Project Management and Change Management. However, when a project is transformational, it requires an expanded approach, beyond these two. Transformational change has a unique set of requirements that need attention before—and after—these standard approaches come in to play…

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20. Transforming Police Culture: Interview with Change Process Leader, Kate MacDonald 36:20

1y ago36:20

36:20

The role of the Change Process Leader is a breakthrough strategy for successfully leading transformational change. Beyond Project Management and Change Management, this role oversees how a transformation is stood up, led, and adjusted to achieve sustained results. Kate MacDonald, Executive Director of Professionalism, Leadership & Inclusion at York…

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19. Breakthrough! Transforming Change Leadership Roles And Project Strategy 28:53

1y ago28:53

28:53

Our most complex and transformational change projects face many predictable hurdles. Current project leader roles and processes do not prevent or mitigate these struggles. A new leadership role is needed and possible! It requires a paradigm shift in understanding transformational change and how best to lead it. Introducing the Change Process Leader…

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18. Take A Serious Look! How Well Are Your Transformational Changes Being Led? 22:09

1y ago22:09

22:09

Leaders and their consultants often take for granted that they know how to lead all their major change projects. However, transformational changes have different requirements of both leaders and consultants to be led successfully to achieve sustained results. This episode reviews many of the predictable and costly challenges transformational projec…

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17. Up Close and Personal, Time with Talent Industry Legend, Dr. Beverly Kaye 35:59

1y ago35:59

35:59

Guest Interview – Dr. Beverly Kaye, Founder of Bev Kaye & Co. Dr. Beverly Kaye is an internationally recognized expert in the field of career development, employee engagement, and retention. In this episode, I talk personally with Bev about her lifelong path in this work, her insights for leaders and Talent Management practitioners, and about the n…

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16. When to Decline a Change Project as a Change Consultant 22:48

1y ago22:48

22:48

As a Change Consultant, when should I consider not accepting a project because of clear adverse leadership, buy-in or cultural issues? There is nothing worse than being tied up in a change project that has no chance of succeeding. The causes of this are many. It may be poor sponsorship, no clear outcome, unrealistic timetable and budget, unclear de…

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40. The Ten Most Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change, Part 2 34:05

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39. Ten Most Common Mistakes in Leading Transformational Change, Part 1 27:50

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38. Leading Change As A Strategic Discipline 33:49

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37. Personal Interview with Joe Rafter, Business and Social Change Leader 39:23

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36. Enlightening Interview with Donna Brighton, Chief Ideas Officer, Brighton Leadership Group 45:34

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35. Catalyzing Organizational Energy for Change, Part II 27:17

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34. Managing Organizational Energy for Results 41:26

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33. Candid Interview with Jake Jacobs: Inventor of Real-time Strategic Change 38:21

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32. Creating Critical Mass: A Powerful and Essential Strategy to Generate Momentum for Change 20:31

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31. Direct from the Source! Ten Essential Strategies to Succeed at Your Transformational Changes 47:38

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30. Turning Resistance to Change into Commitment 33:28

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29. How to Get People’s Attention When Current Reality is Entrenched 19:18

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28. Rethinking Project Scope: Expanding Attention to All Priorities 28:50

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27. Candid Interview with Theresa Moulton, Editor-in-Chief of the Change Management Review 24:23

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26. Conscious Change Leadership: the Future of Organizational Change 27:53

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25. Andrew Johnson, Shares His Journey to Become a Conscious Change Leader 30:48

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24. How to Achieve Full Stakeholder Adoption in Transformational Change 34:05

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23. What Kind Of Change Consultant Are You? 18:39

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22. Leading Organization-Wide Transformation with an Enterprise Change Agenda 31:14

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21. Beyond Change Management: Requirements To Lead Transformational Change 37:17

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20. Transforming Police Culture: Interview with Change Process Leader, Kate MacDonald 36:20

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19. Breakthrough! Transforming Change Leadership Roles And Project Strategy 28:53

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18. Take A Serious Look! How Well Are Your Transformational Changes Being Led? 22:09

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17. Up Close and Personal, Time with Talent Industry Legend, Dr. Beverly Kaye 35:59

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16. When to Decline a Change Project as a Change Consultant 22:48

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