Change is the leadership domain where the gap between state-of-the-art management science and actual practice is probably the biggest. We see top executives and leadership teams exercising very poor practices in leading change and transformation – no surprise that so many change initiatives fail and so many people get disengaged during transformation programs.

The purpose of this paper is to give executives a practical summary of the 4 most important, evidence based practices they must adapt to lead impactful, sustainable change.