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Aligned Change Leadership

A framework that empowers teams to drive organizational transformation through collaboration, learning, leadership, and justice.

Research-Informed

Built at the powerful intersection of organizational learning, organizational justice, and adaptive leadership, this is a change process people can believe in.

Designed for Change Leaders

This planning framework is for leaders and teams committed to professional growth and development through collaboration and complex change.

A New Way to Plan for Change

Aligned Change Leadership™ recognizes the importance of culture, context, and the human condition. It honours the wisdom that already exists, surfaces cyclical patterns, and empowers shifts in perspective.

Lead Your Team Into Its Alignment Era

Aligned Change Leadership is more than just another planning framework — it is a catalyst for meaningful, lasting change.

Built at the intersection of organizational learning, organizational justice, and adaptive leadership, this framework helps organizations move beyond incremental improvements and step into a new way of working, leading, and collaborating.

A Change Leadership Experience That Transforms What’s Possible

Most change processes produce a plan.
This one produces transformation.

Aligned Change Leadership is intentionally designed to:

  • Attend to your team or organization's culture, history, and context — not just current and future operations and tasks.

  • Create space for the human side of change.

  • Build shared understanding across departments.

  • Use transparent, evidence‑based decision-making.

  • Strengthen relationships, trust, and leadership capacity.

When people experience a change process as fair, respectful, and transparent, they support the outcomes — even when decisions are difficult. This is the power of a justice‑aligned planning approach.

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A weathered wooden plank boardwalk winds through a lush, green temperate rainforest with mossy trees.
  • Organizations navigating complexity, growth, and change.

  • Institutions seeking a more collaborative, transparent planning process.

  • Leaders who want to embed learning, fairness, and adaptive leadership into their organizational culture.

  • Teams who want a plan that is collaboratively developed, not imposed.

Who This Framework is For

Aligned Change Leadership™ is a five-module change planning framework, grounded in organizational learning, organizational justice, and adaptive leadership.

Engage with the framework through leadership coaching, or Aligned Change Leadership Training (coming soon!), which guides leaders and teams through each module, train-the-trainer-style, including the theory behind the framework, and the tools, templates, and resources used.

Structure

Three Foundational Pillars

Most change processes focus on tasks, timelines, and deliverables.

In this one, the way you plan becomes as transformational as the change itself.

Organizational Learning
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Team collaborating around a whiteboard in an office.

The change process itself is a learning process.

Participants engage in respectful inquiry, reflection, and collective sensemaking to uncover root causes and systemic patterns behind challenges or pain points.

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A gold balance scale on a rainbow table
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a flock of birds flying in a V across a cloudy sky
Organizational Justice

Fairness is built into every stage through careful attention to procedural, interactional, and distributive justice.

Participants experience a process that is transparent, respectful, and equitable.

The framework empowers staff at all levels to develop adaptive leadership skills.

Participants learn to navigate complexity, engage with difficult questions, and balance what should be preserved with what must change.

Adaptive Leadership

The Aligned Change Leadership Framework is designed to deliver:

  • A vetted, evidence‑based change plan

  • Clear priorities, success metrics, and a sequenced action roadmap

  • A shared understanding of purpose, vision, values, and institutional context

  • Stronger cross‑departmental relationships

  • A change process that models fairness, transparency, and learning

And perhaps most importantly: Leaders aligned around a shared future — and equipped to lead it.

What Your Team Will Gain

Aligned Change Leadership Training
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macbook pro displaying group of people
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a person sitting at a table using a cell phone

Professional development for change leaders.

Learn the Aligned Change Leadership framework and how to facilitate it for your team using a change initiative or challenge you're currently experiencing.

Get access to learning materials, tools and resources on a module-by-module basis plus online meets to review and discuss content with peers.

Contact me using the form below and I'll send you more details as well as a link to book a free consult.

Aligned Change Leadership Coaching

Use your 1:1 or group coaching sessions to review individual modules or theory and discuss how to apply the tools and and leadership techniques directly to your change initiatives at work.

An opportunity for a deep dive into the Aligned Change Leadership modules that apply best to your leadership situation or challenge.

For a limited time, access a 50% coaching discount. Submit your email below to get a promo code.

Delivery Formats

About me

Hello, and thank you for your interest in Aligned Change Leadership!

I am a change leader and trained facilitator with deep experience helping organizations navigate complexity, strengthen alignment, and move strategic priorities from intention to action. My work spans strategic and operational planning, policy and program development, and service and process overhauls — always with a focus on reducing friction and improving outcomes.

My intention with the Aligned Change Leadership framework is to support change leaders who are grappling with competing demands, operational challenges, and external pressures, to identify what matters most, develop leaders on their teams, and influence transformational change that moves their organization forward.

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The founder of Alignment Era Consulting smiling on a rocky coast at sunset with ocean waves.

Traditional Lands Acknowledgement

Alignment Era Consulting is located on Treaty One Territory, the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anisininew, Ininiwak/Nehethowuk, Oceti Sakowin/Dakota Oyate Peoples, and the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. This territory is also a place of significance for the Denesuline and the Inuit Peoples. I also acknowledge that our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in Treaty Three Territory, and that most of our hydro-electricity comes from Treaty Five Territory in northern Manitoba.

As a settler on these lands, I acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past. I commit to addressing systemic biases and barriers that still exist today, and working together with Indigenous communities in collaboration, respect and reciprocity.

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Golden autumn prairie landscape with tall dry grass and yellow trees under a sunset sky.
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A calm lake with rocky shoreline and lush green trees under a clear sky.
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