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    CONFESSIONS OF A CHANGE-MAKER

    Jan 20, 2022 4 minutes
    By Liesa Hurn.

    If businesses don’t change, they will be left behind. It’s a phrase thrown around a lot. And while I’m not a fan of a cliché, it’s true.

    There’s no denying that change can be frightening. Leaping into the unknown is an uneasy feeling.

    When people are afraid of change, they aren’t necessarily afraid of the change itself – but that it will go wrong.

    But change doesn’t have to be that way. It isn’t leaping entirely into the unknown if it’s led according to a planned process, inclusive of the people that will be affected, and approached with minimal disruption.

    I’ve been a change management professional in some of New Zealand’s biggest companies – so you can imagine that

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