Foundation Level | Transformational Leadership 101

Leading Through Change | The Unity Formula™ 

Globally, up to 70% of transformation efforts fail. Not because of poor strategy, but because the conditions for people to adopt change are not in place.

Right now, many leaders are carrying the pressure of major change. AI is a clear example of what organisations are facing. It is not a typical change project, it is transformational, and whether organisations feel ready or not, they are already in the middle of it.

What we are seeing is that those who navigate this well are not simply the ones with the strongest technology strategies. They are the ones whose leaders understand how to create the conditions for people to move through transformation.
This is exactly what the Unity Formula™ one-day certification focuses on. This session introduces the conditions that determine whether change is adopted or resisted, and the risk this creates for leadership when those conditions are not in place.

While AI makes this more visible, the pattern is much broader. These same conditions sit underneath any significant organisational shift, whether it is technology, structure, strategy or culture.

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The most transformational learning was the formula for creating the
environment for change to succeed.

Ali Wilkinson
 Associate Director | Organisational Development | UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO

Currently Available Across NZ via the Leading Through Change Tour

 If you are leading people through times of change, this is for you. 


Why Change So Often Fails to Take Hold

#1 The Conditions for Change Aren’t in Place

Most change efforts focus on plans, structures, and timelines. Far fewer pay attention to the conditions that need to be in place for people to genuinely contribute, commit, and move together.

#2 Human Wiring Is Not Accounted For

People are wired to scan for threat. When change brings uncertainty, pace, or pressure, behaviour shifts often in subtle ways. Without recognising this, leaders can misread hesitation as resistance, rather than a natural response to the environment.

#3 Complexity Dilutes Focus and Follow-Through

As organisations navigate multiple priorities and overlapping changes, even well-intended initiatives struggle. Without a way to align people and direction across the system, effort becomes fragmented and momentum is lost.
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A Solution backed by  years of R&D

The Unity Formula identifies the key conditions that determine whether people will adopt and move with change. It was developed through a signficant research and development period led by Growth Development in New Zealand, working alongside organisations navigating real transformation. What this consistently showed is that change does not usually fail because of the strategy itself, it fails because the conditions required for people to adopt that change are not in place. These conditions now form a core part of the SIMPLE. Transformation Framework, giving leaders a clear and measurable way to understand what is happening across their organisation.
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Leading Through Change | The Unity Formula™ | 1 Day Certified Course

A 1-Day Certified Transformational Leadership Programme introducing the Unity Formula™. The Unity Formula™ is part of the SIMPLE Transformation Framework™ developed by Growth Development. The framework identifies the leadership conditions required for change adoption and the management disciplines needed to guide successful change. The Unity Formula™ introduces the leadership component of the framework.

Change is filtered through competing priorities, perceived risk, relational safety and the internal story people are telling themselves. When those signals are shaped by uncertainty or threat, resistance is not surprising, it is predictable.

This Foundation Certification introduces the Unity Formula™, equipping leaders to diagnose and deliberately shape the environmental conditions required for people to engage, align and move with change rather than quietly resist it.

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, accelerates or quietly fails.

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

Dan Coffey
 General Manager | WEL Networks
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

 

Leading Through Change | The Unity Formula™ | 1 Day Certified Course



$599 incl. GST | Save $200

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8th June 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | Innovation Complex | Massey University | Albany

$599 incl. GST | Save $200

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11th June 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | The Pa | University of Waikato | Hamilton

$599 incl. GST | Save $300
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29th June 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | ONLINE | Via Zoom | Transformational Change Institute

$499 incl. GST | Special Online rate | Save $300 
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30th July 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | The Garden Room | Hotel Elms | Christchurch

$599 incl. GST | Save $200
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17th August 2026

9.30 am - 4.00 pm | The Pa | University of Waikato | Hamilton

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