courageous cultures|thriving teams|purposeful leaders
ChangeUnion works with
the human side of change
From instant impact workshops to high-impact programmes of transformation for teams and individuals, ChangeUnion helps you to achieve awesome and audacious change in the way you live and work.
Marina Lumley, Change Leader
Find your curiosity
ChangeUnion uses a powerful mix of diagnostic tools that bring clarity to reality.
We capture people’s attention and surface actionable insights. We fuel your curiosity by getting to the heart of what’s really standing in your way.
See the way
We align people around the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of the work you’re doing.
Armed with the clearest, goals and a powerful vision, we connect your people to tangible and achievable change – helping them to find their own ‘reasons why’.
Live your future
Shifting mindsets and behaviours, we help you surface courage and find a clear voice.
With passionate sincerity, we develop the courage-building skills and emotional intelligence in your people, teams and culture that will deliver success.
What we do
ChangeUnion works with the parts of your organisation that are pivotal to enabling growth and change. We start by finding out where you are and then help you navigate to where you need to be.
Courageous
cultures
We work with you to operationalise courage, enabling smart risk-taking and resilience.
Purposeful
leaders
We energise your leaders,
re-motivating them to become more purposeful in life and work
Thriving
teams
We help people to thrive, making the transition from surviving teams to high performing teams
Courageous
cultures
We work with you to operationalise courage, enabling smart risk-taking and resilience.
Purposeful
leaders
We energise your leaders,
re-motivating them to become more purposeful in life and work
Thriving
teams
We help people to thrive, making the transition from surviving teams to high performing teams
How we do it
We do it by keeping our work simple, powerful, and holding our nerve to support you when – inevitably – challenges come up along the way.
- A simple, mission-critical, 3-step process
- Purposeful and guiding beliefs and values
- Brilliant coaches, inspiring facilitators
How we do it
We do it by keeping our work simple, powerful, and holding our nerve to support you when – inevitably – challenges come up along the way.
- A simple, mission-critical, 3-step process
- Purposeful and guiding beliefs and values
- Brilliant coaches, inspiring facilitators
Values that matter
This is how we show up at ChangeUnion. As a team of professionals, it’s what we believe in – it’s how we coach, and how we bring the mindset and behavioural shift needed to your business and your people.
- Learning over knowing, listening with all of our senses
- Sticking with the messy middle of a problem, until there is clarity
- Finding the courage to do what’s right over what’s comfortable
Visible results
Every organisation is different. Our services and solutions are as much about the cross-sector insights and experiences of our brilliant coaches and facilitators as they are about our tools. The results speak for themselves.
We can measure the status quo accurately, and effect tangible change. This shows the results before and after ChangeUnion’s intervention:
From our clients
We’re in the sports world, let me use a sporting analogy. ChangeUnion – Marina – is the team coach that the team doesn’t know it needs. Crucially, we were given tools that are easy to understand and use – so the whole team starts operating effectively.
What ChangeUnion does is so intuitive. If we’d owned our problem, if we’d been able to identify it – I quite think we might not have needed ChangeUnion. But that’s the point. If we’d set out the problems, or talked about how we’d tackle them in advance, it would not have been such a successful, organic process.
I can see how some businesses might feel more comfortable with itemised solutions, or completely mapped out, but that’s just it: you can’t always predict the right solutions, if you haven’t been able – yourself – to diagnose or cure the problem.”
Her speciality is getting in under the bonnet. She gets into the nitty-gritty of a business’s complex operating systems – the people-systems – so quickly. She looks at symptoms on the surface, and knows which tools to use to then go deeper and surface the root of a problem. Marina could see which skills were not being used, but her approach then helped some of our strongest characters to take challenging, personal steps towards becoming better leaders.
Coaching with ChangeUnion has been one of the hardest and also one of the best things I could ever have done, both personally and professionally. Identifying your blind spots, recognising your weaknesses and reconsidering your values are incredibly challenging things to do, but completely worthwhile and the team coaches you through the process, unpacking your thoughts and reactions as you go.
When you challenge, or push or query something, there’s no ‘shut down’ – rather, you learn how to work through that challenge. Sometimes the changes and learnings and adjustments you need to make are minimal, sometimes they’re more fundamental. There’s a check-in, and the support is invaluable. The work I’ve done with ChangeUnion doesn’t just help me in this job, or this moment. It’s going to help in my whole career and beyond.
I’ve worked with Marina for several years. She’s a delight to work with and brings bags of warmth, curiosity and actionable insight to every interaction she has with teams and individuals.
In a few months her EQ coaching programme has increased team engagement (which was already good) by 9 improvement points. Here’s what some of the team said about her about working with her: “it has encouraged people to speak up and take accountability for how we move forward as one team. It’s not just down to our leader or the managers in the team to practice and implement what we have learnt. It’s down to everyone” … “the team, as a whole, is a happier and more positive body of people who are working harder together, as opposed to as a bunch of individuals.”
Let’s start something new
Say hello!
If you’re looking for culture change, or want to understand more about emotional intelligence and behavioural work, we’d love to hear from you.
Send an email to: marina@change-union.com
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