About
I taught Claude to think like a change consultant with 30 years of change management consulting experience.
That is the short version. Here is the rest.
For 30 years I led people-side strategy and implementation on Fortune 100 transformations. UnitedHealth Group. Nike. Intel. Kaiser Permanente. Johnson & Johnson. PwC. Stanford Medicine. Sony. And many more. Technology rollouts, ERP implementations, culture work, M&A integrations. The programs where the technical work only succeeds if the change management work succeeds.
Along the way I trained through Prosci® and later served as an external consultant with the organization for three years, coaching and guiding the CM practitioners inside their enterprise license holders. In between, I spent time at PwC as a senior consultant in their Change Practice. Thirty years of external consulting to Fortune 100 change programs. That is where the judgment in the catalog comes from.
Then I did something most consultants don’t. I stopped.
Not because I was burned out. Because I saw something coming that most CM practitioners didn’t. AI was about to change our profession. Not in the ‘exciting future possibilities’ way every LinkedIn post talks about. In the ‘this is happening now, and most of you are using it badly’ way.
So in late 2024, I went to AI school. I spent many months building what I wished I’d had for three decades. That is Change Essentials AI.
The catalog is 14 Claude skills built the way a senior CM practitioner would build them if they had the time. Every skill maps to the five methodologies used by change practitioners globally: Prosci® ADKAR®, Kotter’s 8 Accelerators, ACMP Standard v2.0, the McKinsey Influence Model, and APMG/CMI. Every skill is built for review and adaptation by the practitioner using it. None of them replace judgment. All of them compress the mechanical work that used to eat the calendar so the practitioner can spend more time on the leadership, sponsor, and stakeholder conversations that determine whether change actually lands.
There is a full PMI 100-Day System in build alongside the catalog. That work launches later this year.
I contribute a monthly column to ACMP, speak at ACMP conferences, and write regularly on LinkedIn → about the change management profession and where AI fits inside it. Longer-form versions of my recent thinking live on Recalibrated →.
I take on a small number of advisory engagements each year with firms and organizations serious about deploying the catalog well.
If any of this reads like the shape of the practice you are running or the team you are building, start a conversation →.