Melanie Franklin

Melanie empowers staff to plan, lead and implement transformational change, including the adoption of new target operating models, the implementation of platforms and systems, the creation of new cultures and ways of working. She builds trusted, empathetic relationships with stakeholders who have not led large-scale transformational change before, ensuring they have the skills and confidence to develop their own approach to change. 

Acknowledged as a thought leader in transformational change, through authorship of 10 books, and practical consulting for global organisations including the United Nations, utility and telecoms, global consultancies, universities, health services and central government functions in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.

Founder of ChangeabilityPro^R, an online platform for developing practical skills and capabilities for achieving organisational change and transformations, delivering on her belief that we need to provide the answers for how to make change happen, reducing the stress of constant, high volumes of change.

Chief Examiner for the Agile Change Agent and Agile Change Coach qualifications and Neuroscience for Change certification. Chartered Management Consultant, and adviser to executives in the public, private and third sectors.

Founder of the Change Capability Community which facilitates networking, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and mutual support among change professionals globally. 

Originator of the global Capability for Change Survey, which provides change professionals with a valuable benchmark for their progress in building change skills in their organisation, and identifies latest trends, challenges and successes for the change profession.

Melanie is a talented communicator and has a reputation for delivering complex information with humour and passion. She draws on her wealth of practical experience to illustrate concepts and to engage her audience in lively debates on advantages and disadvantages of each approach that she outlines.