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For the leader carrying the human side of change.

Changerous.

You can be the most changerous person in the room.

For the leader handed a change with no playbook. For the HR professional absorbing fallout from decisions made above them. For the organization that needs change to actually work.

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The Story

Twenty years inside one of Canada's most complex organizations. Now building what I learned into something others can use.

My name is David. For two decades, I led operations and change management inside one of Canada's largest national organizations — a federal Crown corporation, one of the biggest employers in the country, and one of the most heavily unionized operational environments in North America.

I directed 24/7 operations with annual budgets exceeding $90 million. I managed the safety, performance, and development of more than 1,400 people across one of the largest processing facilities in the country. And when the organization embarked on its most ambitious digital transformation in modern history, I was asked to lead the change.

That meant standing in front of frontline workers, team leaders, union representatives, and executives — and asking them to trust a new way of working. Not once. Hundreds of times. Across multiple releases, in rooms that were sometimes welcoming and sometimes hostile, with bargaining agents watching every step.

I digitized and modernized the systems people use in the most sensitive moments of their working lives. These aren't workflow changes. They're trust changes. And they required a fundamentally different kind of leadership.

Changerous exists because what I learned in those rooms — about trust, about presence, about meeting people where they are — shouldn't stay inside one organization. It's too useful. And too many people are navigating change alone.

Impact
20
Years leading operations and change at national scale
55,000
Employees impacted nationally — many of them multiple times in a single year
40,000
Unionised members onboarded to the first-ever automated job bidding system
$90M+
Annual operational budget directed across one of Canada's largest processing facilities
48%
Productivity improvement achieved year-over-year-over-year across operations
$2.1M
In overtime costs reduced in a single year — 118,000 hours saved versus plan
What Leaders Say
Your leadership and resilience, and ability to build large networks to amplify the Change Voice and truly meet people where they are at, stood out.
Senior Leadership Feedback, 2025
You were the face of the change plan with our Bargaining Agent and created trust with these stakeholders, which at times proved challenging due to multiple rounds of bargaining.
Senior Leadership Feedback, 2025
This was far from a small task with hundreds of sessions to attend, influencing 6 Operations General Managers and the Vice President of Safety.
Senior Leadership Feedback, 2025
Working with you has been incredibly valuable. Your insights, encouragement, and willingness to share your experiences have helped me see my own potential more clearly and think more strategically about my development.
Mentee, 2025
Insights

Thinking out loud about what change actually takes.

I write about change fatigue, burnout, resistance, and what the frameworks miss. Grounded in data. Filtered through twenty years of real experience. Follow along on LinkedIn — and subscribe on YouTube for the video series.

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Current Series
Change Fatigue & The Hidden Load
73% of HR leaders say their employees are experiencing change fatigue. The average employee is absorbing five times more change than a decade ago — and burnout is now the #1 named business risk of 2026. A weekly series exploring what it costs and what to do about it.
Coming to YouTube
The Burnout Spectrum
Change fatigue doesn't arrive all at once. It moves through a spectrum — from stretched to stalled to gone. A video series mapping what each stage looks like, what it costs, and what leaders can actually do about it.
The Approach
01
The framework is the floor, not the ceiling.
ADKAR, Prosci, Kotter — I'm certified and fluent in the models. But the practitioner who can read a room, adapt in real time, and know when to start again is worth ten people who can only work the formula. Fluidity and flexibility matter more than methodology.
02
Put your face on it.
If you won't stand in front of the people your change affects, you don't believe in it enough. I led over 135 sessions for a single release — awareness, orientation, training, post go-live — always as the lead, always on camera. That's not heroism. That's the minimum.
03
Resistance isn't a problem. It's information.
People resist when they feel unheard, unprepared, or uncertain. That's not defiance — that's human. The real work isn't pushing harder or explaining louder. It's meeting people where they are. Not where we are. Not where the plan says they should be.
04
Credibility is your only currency.
Every promise you make in a change program is a withdrawal from a trust account. If you overdraw — if the go-live fails, if the tool doesn't work, if the experience doesn't match the message — you don't just lose that moment. You lose every conversation that follows.
05
Check your ego at the door.
I learned this in rooms with some of Canada's most experienced union representatives. Management ego is lethal in adversarial environments. Meet people where they are. Listen more than you speak. And sometimes, start again — because doubling down on what isn't working never ends well.
06
Focus on the fencesitters.
The early adopters are already in. The loud detractors may never be. It's the people in the middle — watching, evaluating, waiting to see if this change is safe, logical, worth it — who determine whether your change takes root. Shift them, and you shift everything.
Work With Me
Change management built for organizations that need it to actually work — without the enterprise price tag.

Changerous brings twenty years of national-scale change leadership to organizations that don't have a dedicated change management team — but whose people deserve the same quality of thinking.

Whether you're navigating a technology rollout, a restructure, a process overhaul, or a culture shift, the approach is the same: understand the humans first, build the strategy second, and stay in the room until it sticks.

Change Strategy & Planning
Built on twenty years of national-scale change leadership. The frameworks (ADKAR, Kotter, Prosci) are tools I use, not the product I sell. Strategy starts with the people who have to live the change — stakeholder mapping, readiness, sequencing, and the honest conversations most plans skip.
Leadership Coaching
One-on-one and team coaching for leaders navigating change — including the hard conversations about resistance, credibility, ego, and what to do when the plan stops working.
Training & Facilitation
Awareness sessions, orientation, skills training, and post go-live support. Designed for engagement, not attendance. Built by someone who has personally delivered hundreds of these sessions.
Speaking & Workshops
Keynotes, panel participation, and interactive workshops on change leadership, resistance, and building trust in complex environments. Practical, honest, and grounded in lived experience.
Free Resource

The Human Side of Change Toolkit

Practical tools for the leader carrying change through fatigued, stretched, and uncertain teams. Built from two decades of real-world deployments — not textbook theory. Includes the People Connection Map, the 30-60-90 Day Plan, and the Change Readiness Check.

Free Resource

The Change Signal Monitor

See it. Name it. Adapt. A practical early-warning guide for leaders managing change — what fatigue, resistance, and adoption signals actually look like at each stage, and when to act. Built on the CCL monitoring approach used in Changerous consulting engagements.

Let's Talk

Ready to lead change that actually sticks?

Whether you're in the middle of something difficult, planning something ambitious, or just need someone who's been in the room before — I'd like to hear from you.