Finalist
Book Title:The Emotional Side of Organizational Change: How To Survive and Thrive
Author:Jennifer Bryan
Published:2026
How is your book helping others?
The Emotional Side of Organizational Change helps leaders transform the way they lead change and, ultimately, the experience and outcomes of transformation for the people affected by it. The book tackles a critical but often overlooked reason transformation fails: the emotional response to change. It helps leaders understand what sits beneath resistance, uncertainty and disengagement, so they can respond with greater empathy, clarity and intention rather than treating people as obstacles.
Through practical tools, communication strategies, foresight techniques and the ABChange Model, readers learn to anticipate emotional responses, build trust and involve people meaningfully. The result is a shift from doing change to people to creating change with them, helping organisations build resilience, accelerate adoption and sustain new ways of working. It helps leaders put people first without compromising performance, making transformation more human, successful and more likely to last.