Pragmatic change
You've been doing this your whole life. So has every person you lead.
Nobody in your organisation is bad at change. They've changed careers, cities, relationships, beliefs. They've rebuilt themselves after things you'll never hear about.
You're leading something genuinely hard, with capable people, and it still isn't moving the way it should…
For leaders and practitioners who sense their program is failing despite the plan. Pragmatic Change replaces methodology theatre with the evidence, honesty, and distributed practice that actually works.
Most organisations are still running a 2005 change model on 2025 problems.
The playbook — appoint a sponsor, hire a change manager, do comms, run training, go live, declare success — was designed for stable hierarchies and clear authority.
That world is largely gone. And yet the model persists, in Gantt charts, in steering committees, in the quiet yet misplaced confidence of leaders who've done this before.
Pragmatic Change is written for the leaders who know something isn't working, and the practitioners helping them do something about it.
Drawing on 20 years of program delivery across mining, manufacturing, government, and financial services, grounded in the behavioural science most change frameworks ignore, it replaces the procedural with the practical.
Who is this for?
Senior leaders navigating transformation who sense the current approach is not working.
Change practitioners tired of methodology theatre and looking for what the evidence actually says.
Program directors responsible for outcomes, not just activities.
Teams deploying change together — this is a book you read once and use with your team repeatedly.
Who wrote this?
Mark Winter has spent 20 years leading complex change across mining, manufacturing, government, and financial services. He writes about what actually works, the times he got it wrong, and what most playbooks miss.
Read his experience at markwinter.com.au or explore more of his thoughts.