Leading Through Change Tour | 2 Day Certified Pathway


The SIMPLE. Transformation Framework ™

  • This session is for leaders who are navigating:
    • New delivery models, strategy, or operating structures 

    • Tension between organisational change priorities and the day to day demands 

    • Workforce fatigue limiting the capacity to absorb further change
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The Risk of Getting Transformation Wrong

#1 Significant Investment that does not produce the intended outcomes

Organisations commit substantial resource to transformation; time, money, leadership attention and the goodwill of their people.

 When the underlying conditions are not in place, that investment produces activity rather than change: Outputs are delivered, milestones are met and the operational reality at the frontline remains largely unchanged.

 The cost is not just financial. It is the credibility of leadership and the capacity of the organisation to absorb what comes next.

#2 Workforce fatigue that quietly erodes the capacity to move

Every change programme that does not land the way it should leaves a residue. People become more cautious, more cynical and less willing to invest discretionary effort in the next initiative.

In environments already carrying significant change load, this accumulation is not visible in any dashboard or report. It surfaces only when the organisation needs to move and finds that it cannot; not because the strategy is wrong, but because the people required to carry it have run out of capacity to try again.

#3 The same structural problems resurfacing in new forms

Without the conditions architecture that determines whether transformation can sustain and compound over time, organisations find themselves cycling through programmes. Each cycle addresses the symptoms of the previous one without resolving the underlying structural conditions that produced them.

The result is not stagnation, organisations continue to change. But they do not build genuine transformation capability. Each programme starts from approximately the same point as the last.
Lesson series

A framework built on eight years of New Zealand research

The SIMPLE Transformation Framework™ was developed by Growth Development, a New Zealand research and development organisation, through eight years of applied research, implementation testing, and operational refinement across complex transformation environments. It is not a repackaged overseas model. It was built here, tested here, and refined through real implementation in New Zealand organisations.
What that research consistently revealed is that transformation does not fail because of poor strategy or insufficient effort. It fails because the systemic and relational conditions that determine whether change can actually land are not in place. The framework addresses that layer directly.
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The Leading Through Change Tour is facilitated personally by Melanie Bedggood, founder of the SIMPLE Transformation Framework and director of the Transformational Change Institute. It brings together a cross-sector group of senior leaders including Governance, C-Level, General Management and Senior Leaders in People Culture, Business Transformation and Senior Advisory roles. 

These sessions are kept intentionally small and tour dates are limited. This format is not available through standard online or inhouse delivery.


2 Day Certified Pathway 
 
Complete the Foundation Level of the
SIMPLE. Transformation Framework™.

A two day certified pathway introducing the foundational leadership conditions and transformational management blueprint for guiding successful change.

Over 2 days you will learn how to

Diagnose and adapt before change priorities fail

Accurately assess readiness for change adoption, or recalibrate during active change using the Unity Formula™ so adoption risk is visible and manageable.

Apply a disciplined framework that maintains momentum across competing priorities

Use the SIMPLE Transformation Method™ to clarify outcomes, reduce implementation complexity and maintain coherent progress as competing priorities emerge.

Lead transformation with clarity across both the leadership and management dimensions

Integrate the leadership and management disciplines required to drive transformational change at the team and organisational levels.

Day 1 |Foundation Certification | The Unity Formula™ 

The Unity Formula™ focuses on the relational and systemic conditions that create change adoption readiness and capability. These conditions influence whether people feel aligned, safe and connected enough to invest discretionary effort in embedding change priorities.

Create the conditions for change adoption.

Move beyond surface level buy-in by learning how to shape the environmental conditions that determine whether change embeds or under delivers.

See what is really undermining your change initiatives.

Learn how to diagnose the organisational environment and identify competing priorities, belief systems and pressure points that undermine change before rollout even begins.

Turn resistance into ownership.

Understand how beliefs drive behaviour and strengthen the relational conditions that replace forced compliance with genuine ownership of change.

Day 2 | Foundation Certification | The SIMPLE. Transformation Method™ 

This Certification introduces the SIMPLE. Transformation Method™, providing leaders with a disciplined and repeatable approach to align priorities, define measurable outcomes, integrate diverse perspectives and sustain momentum across complex transformation environments. 

Move from readiness to disciplined execution.

Learn how to translate change intent into clear structure, sequencing and decision-making so transformation priorities do not stall once implementation begins.

Embed change without complexity or fatigue.

Apply the SIMPLE. Transformation Method™ to prevent implementation overload, reduce change fatigue and sustain performance as change progresses.

Lead complex change with clarity and reportable progress.

Align leadership and management disciplines to maintain traction as transformation complexity increases across short, medium and long-term priorities.
 NZ LEADING THROUGH CHANGE TOUR
$999 +gst per participant

This Certified Pathway brings both certifications together into a single two day pathway normally NZD $1,598 +gst to complete both individually.

The most powerful shift was how I can influence both in my direct team and general business.

Dan Coffey
 General Manager | General Manager | WEL Networks
The most transformational learning was the formula for creating the
environment for change to succeed.

Ali Wilkinson
 Associate Director | Organisational Development | UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO
This training was fabulous. We covered a lot in a short amount of time and it introduced new thinking around transformational leadership. Seeing organisations as two connected systems, people and leadership alongside production and management, completely shifted how I think about leading change.

Nena Donaldson
 Organisational Development | Kāpiti Coast District Council
I learnt the tools to move people, identify pain points and create a plan. 

Viv Edwards
 Operations Manager | Plunket New Zealand
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8th & 9th June 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | Massey University  | Albany

LIMITED SEATS LEFT
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11th & 12th June 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | University of Waikato  | Hamilton

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30th & 31st July 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | The Garden Room | Hotel Elms | Christchurch
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17th & 18th August 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | University of Waikato  | Hamilton

$999 | Save $598

Can't make the dates in your region? Checkout online delivery option 

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29th & 30th June 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | Online via Zoom  | Transformational Change Institute

$899 +gst

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