tool – ORCHANGO

Change makers: we got to feed the beaver, he?

Edmond Mellina — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:14:24 +0000

NimbleVlog Season 05 Episode 04 — ORCHANGO’s president & co-founder Edmond Mellina uses a beaver analogy to highlight an important call to action for change-makers… Reading time: about 2 minutes When teaching Nimble Change Leadership™ [or Change Agility for Staff Members], I often use a beaver analogy. Of course, it works very well with Canadians. After all, the beaver is our…

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Today’s change-makers need stethoscope-like tools

Edmond Mellina — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:22:44 +0000

NimbleVlog Season 05 Episode 03 — ORCHANGO’s president & co-founder Edmond Mellina highlights three nimble characteristics of the traditional stethoscope. In today’s BANI world, change-makers need tools that have the same characteristics… Reading time: less than 2 minutes Do you know when the stethoscope was invented? 1816. That’s a very, very long time ago! Yet, to these days…

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Classic Change Management vs. Nimble Change Leadership™

Edmond Mellina — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:19:15 +0000

NimbleVlog Season 05 Episode 02 — ORCHANGO’s president & co-founder Edmond Mellina contrasts Classic Change Management with what he calls Nimble Change Leadership™… Reading time: less than 2 minutes I always contrast Classic Change Management with what I call Nimble Change Leadership™. As I explained in the previous episode, organizations across sectors are moving away from…

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Speaking at I4PL Toronto

Editor — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:48:16 +0000

After seeing ORCHANGO’s president & co-founder Edmond Mellina speak at the annual conference of the Institute for Performance & Learning (I4PL), the local Toronto chapter reached out for a follow-up session. On Feb-25, Edmond will be highlighting for the audience of Learning & Development (L&D) professionals a unique opportunity for the L&D function: reinventing change management for today’s…

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Powering on change management potential

Edmond Mellina — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 12:32:55 +0000

Model & case study to help build organizational change capacity… Edmond Mellina wrote this paper for Effective Executive, one of the flagship journals of IUP Publications (India). The theme of that particular issue was: “Powering on Potential”. Paper overview: An organization cannot grow if it remains unwilling to change. The capacity to absorb change is the fuel that propels an organization…

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Give a change stethoscope to your managers

Edmond Mellina — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 01:07:49 +0000

The critical role that direct managers play during change – both upstream and downstream – cannot be overemphasized. They represent the real keystone of organizational change. However, managers have no time, nor need, for the kind of tools favored by internal change consultants and project teams. What do they really need then? Three things: a very concise overview of your model…

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Example of emotional case: ESA’s latest safety campaign

Edmond Mellina — Fri, 15 May 2015 20:11:22 +0000

In an earlier post I talked about the importance of building the emotional case for change – and not just the business case. To illustrate, I used a consumer example: Volkswagen’s Eyes on the road campaign (the video is embedded in that post). I encouraged change leaders to study how others have been able to engage at an emotional level the people who had to change; and I shared some of my…

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Change leaders, it’s OK to undermine your authority

Edmond Mellina — Wed, 06 May 2015 17:45:55 +0000

A friend recently sent me a link to a Time.com article with a rather catchy title: “How Not to Be ‘Manterrupted’ in Meetings“. As I was reading it, I thought about the way change leaders propose new ideas; and how it can either help or hinder adoption by others. The author, Jessica Bennett, defines manterrupting as the “unnecessary interruption of a woman by a man.” To illustrate the concept…

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A “political nose” à la John Baird is useful in change management

Edmond Mellina — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:57:16 +0000

The unexpected resignation of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has been front page news here in Canada since yesterday. Baird, who is one of the country’s most recognized (and controversial) public figures, is leaving politics all at once. A quote in this morning’s newspapers got me to think about change management. A friend of Baird said: A “political nose” can also be very useful in…

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Non-profit brand and culture go hand in hand

Edmond Mellina — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:59:09 +0000

How brands can walk the talk… Edmond Mellina wrote this article for a special issue of Effective Executive (India) on the non-for-profit sector. To illustrate his points, Edmond drew on our firm’s consulting engagement with a non-profit client respected internationally for its poverty alleviation activities. If you prefer to read the PDF printout from Effective Executive magazine , click here.

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