Trying to shift strategy without losing your team? Consultant Alan Russell from Forth Road Ltd joins Business Babble to show how real change sticks when you lead the right conversations. We dig into culture clashes after acquisitions, why listening beats telling, and how to balance fear, reason and data so people come with you.

What you’ll learn

• The first conversation to run when strategy changes
• How to surface the voices of fear, reason and data
• Practical facilitation tips for boards and leadership teams
• Culture alignment after mergers and acquisitions
• Remote versus in-person change and how to set the cadence
• Visual maps that make complex change easy to grasp
• Using data at the right moment without weaponising it