The Ugly Stories of Business Transformations (and What to Do About Them)
Fri, Oct 23
|Zoom virtual meeting
Most transformation stories celebrate success. This session explores the failures, the false starts, and the transformation theatre. Join an honest discussion on why change rarely sticks and what leaders can do differently. Interested in joining the panel? We’d love to hear your story.
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom virtual meeting
About the Event
From Car Crashes to Train Wrecks: The Ugly Stories of Business Transformations (and What to Do About Them)
Most conferences celebrate success stories.
This session does the opposite.
Every year, organisations spend billions on transformation programmes, agile transformations, digital initiatives, operating model redesigns, AI adoption, and culture change efforts. Yet many fail to deliver the promised outcomes. Some quietly disappear. Some survive long enough to be declared a success before slowly evaporating. Others become expensive exercises in organisational theatre that consume energy, attention, and goodwill without creating lasting change.
Why is it so difficult to make change stick?
Why do so many well-funded and well-intentioned transformation efforts struggle to achieve their goals?