You’ve been asked to lead major change and transformation initiatives but it feels like you’re spending more time repeating yourself, aligning stakeholders, and writing reports than actually leading the change? You’re not alone. Join Nellie Wartoft, CEO of Tigerhall and Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC), as she interviews top change leaders who will be highlighting best practices, frameworks, and lessons learned on how to successfully lead all aspects of large-scale change and transformation.
You’ve been asked to lead major change and transformation initiatives but it feels like you’re spending more time repeating yourself, aligning stakeholders, and writing reports than actually leading the change? You’re not alone. Join Nellie Wartoft, CEO of Tigerhall and Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC), as she interviews top change leaders who will be highlighting best practices, frameworks, and lessons learned on how to successfully lead all aspects of large-scale change and transformation.
What if the secret to transformation isn't overcoming resistance, but understanding what people are protecting?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Christian Lundberg discusses with Nellie Wartoft how neuroscience reveals why our brains prioritize tribal belonging over problem-solving, the power of asking "tell me more" during value conflicts, and why early AI adopters have more in common across departments than within them.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Why do so many frontline employees disengage from change initiatives within six months, even after perfect training rollouts?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Elvin Yavuz from Circle K discusses with Nellie Wartoft how traditional top-down change management fails frontline workers, the critical importance of understanding their chaotic daily reality, and why successful change requires abandoning 50-slide PowerPoints in favor of 3-minute videos and involving employees from day one of project design.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
What if the biggest barrier to transformation isn't strategy or resources, but the beliefs your people hold about what's possible?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Alina discusses with Nellie Wartoft how she approached tripling Heineken Germany's revenue in three years by first building the right team, understanding employee beliefs through her "believe, behave, become" framework, and creating scenarios for course correction while balancing performance with transformation.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
If you had to choose between speed, transparency, or accuracy in your communications, which would you pick?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Allison Nelik discusses with Nellie Wartoft how transparency has become the ultimate currency in change communications, why social media shifted our expectations of leadership authenticity, and practical strategies for balancing speed with accuracy when the world is moving fast.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Why do internal comms teams and change teams clash so often during transformations?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Christian Lundberg (CSO, Vocable Communications) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how internal communications and change communications serve fundamentally different purposes - one focused on efficient information transmission, the other on creating authentic connections that drive behavioral change. They explore the shift from one-way "newspaper" style messaging to social media-style interactive communication, and share practical strategies for building trust through vulnerability, consistency, and value-forward messaging.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Change isn't just accelerating—it's gone exponential. And most organizations are about to get left behind.
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Aric discusses with Nellie Wartoft how the pace of technological change has shifted from Moore's Law's predictable two-year cycles to explosive six-month doubling periods, why traditional change management approaches are now obsolete, and how building enterprise-level transformation offices with both hard capabilities and cultural agility has become the ultimate competitive advantage.
Resources:
- Listen to “CFO’s Don’t Fund Feelings”, our July 8th episode with Aric and Nellie
- Check out Aric’s ROI guide for change initiatives: https://tigerhall.com/guides/how-to-measure-roi-in-a-change-initiative-a-playbook-for-proving-the-value-of-transformation-efforts
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
What if the solution to AI-driven unemployment isn't government handouts, but finally getting paid for the data you've been giving away for free?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Amelia Green discusses with Nellie Wartoft how traditional UBI pilots fail due to unsustainable government funding, why tech giants are making record profits from our personal data, and her revolutionary approach to creating a self-funded universal basic income by treating data as personal assets that citizens can monetize.
Connect with Amelia Green and U-BI:
- Follow us or DM us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/u-bi-impact/
- Sign up for the Newsletter through our Website: UBIImpact.com
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Your AI is only as biased as the humans who created the data it learns from.
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Richard Wiedenbeck (Chief AI Officer, Ameritas) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how the myth of needing perfectly structured data for AI is holding companies back, why information sets matter more than data sets, and how AI is actually exposing the mediocre management practices we've been accepting for years.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
What happens when you take the leap of faith and actually trust your workforce to engage with internal comms?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Allison Nelik discusses with Nellie Wartoft how to overcome the control mindset in internal communications, why two-way feedback drives transformation success, and how to create an internal news outlet that employees actually want to engage with.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
"It's really just garbage pickup, isn't it?"
When a senior executive dismisses the business’ sustainability initiative with those words, you know you need to flip the script.
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Gina Cano (Sr. Director Strategy, Dell) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how she transformed a failing sustainability program from environmental fluff into hard business value, achieving 4x cost savings and 5x recovery value by tying the program’s goals with what executives actually care about: dollars and cents.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
The modern workforce expects leaders to be coaches, not commanders, so why do we still manage change like it's 1970?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Annemie Verrijken (VP Change Management, Belden) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how COVID accelerated the shift toward people-first change management, why speaking senior leadership's language about ROI and risk is crucial for getting buy-in, and her proven strategies for creating "pull" rather than "push" when building organizational change capabilities.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Why do brilliant strategic visions crash and burn when they make first contact with reality?
In this week's episode of The Only Constant, Jennifer Dass (Chief Operations & Transformation Officer, Advertising Agencies & Co-Founder of Dass Collective) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how to navigate complex transformations through her own proven Dass framework, covering everything from stakeholder alignment and hybrid operating models to the critical role of change management in achieving 10x improvement in transformation success rates.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
Are you spreading yourself too thin across multiple initiatives, or should you bet everything on one transformational win?
In this week's episode of the Only Constant, Dan Rickards (Interim Head of Change, Group Transformation, BBC) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how to strategically build organizational change management maturity and how to turn those early wins into headcount.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
What if every transformation dollar could pay for itself twice?
In this week's episode of The Only Constant, Aric Wood discusses with Nellie Wartoft how to speak CFO, leverage past organizational failures as proof points, and structure bronze-silver-gold investment options that guarantee project success while accelerating strategy activation velocity.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Traditional change frameworks can only take you so far. So, let’s take a page out of the marketing playbook.
In this week’s episode of the Only Constant, Nicolas Becquet (Transformation Senior Director, Pernod Ricard) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how borrowing from brand marketing - purpose, consistency, symbolism, and storytelling - creates the emotional engagement that makes change stick in ways only a seasoned marketer would know.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
What happens when you focus on building change capability instead of just managing individual projects?
In this episode of The Only Constant, Dan Rickards (Interim Head of Change, BBC) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how transformation offices can grow by unlocking different parts of their function, all while creating consistency in how their organization interacts with change and increasing their credibility as a core office in its own right.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
What if the reason why so many transformations fail isn't due to poor strategy but due to poor financial storytelling?
In this episode of The Only Constant, Aric Wood (Chief Strategy Officer, Tigerhall) discusses with Nellie Wartoft why senior change leaders must learn to "speak CFO" to win the resources they need and bill strategy activation resources as "ROI insurance". It’s time to translate the realities you know all too well into terms your CFO will actually get.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
You have the budget, you need more hands on deck but who should you hire exactly? You might think ‘someone like me’ but Roger Guerrero has a completely different answer.
In this episode of The Only Constant, Roger Guerrero (Head of Strategy Execution, Merck) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how to not be limited by your own definition of what a transformation office should be and shares his blueprint for building execution-focused teams that actually deliver results.
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
What happens when your organization's biggest strategic challenge isn't technology, process, or budget but just getting everyone to play for the same team?
In this episode of The Only Constant, Ben Cook (Head of Global Customer Service Strategic Transformation at Ford) discusses with Nellie Wartoft how to build more than surface-level alignment for the strategic direction your organization must follow.
Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
Would you work out if you didn't gain any health benefit from it?
Probably not. Yet this is exactly what we're asking our teams to do with organizational change.
If you’re ready to connect the dots between executive vision and frontline execution for your org, you won’t want to miss this week’s episode of The Only Constant with James Hoch (Sr. Director of Transformation & Strategy, Teradata) and Nellie Wartoft
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Connect with:
Nellie Wartoft
CEO of Tigerhall
Chair of the Executive Council for Leading Change (ECLC)
nellie@tigerhall.com
