The skills catalog
Every skill built for the work change managers do every day.
Specialist Claude skills for change management. Each one encodes 30 years of Fortune 500 expertise into a tool you can use today.
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The change management system for the people-side dynamics of AI rollouts.
Most AI rollouts don’t fail at the technology layer. They fail at the people layer. The Five Frictions™ Diagnostic Engine pattern-matches your rollout, severity-scores each Friction, and surfaces Concentrated Desire Resistance, the structural pattern standard ADKAR® assessment under-detects. Four output blueprints. Manager Enablement Playbook with three full coaching scripts.
Where ADKAR® meets the Hero’s Journey. Where rigor meets resonance.
Shadow Narrative Detection surfaces unspoken fears and builds Truth-Anchors into your communications. Four precision-tuned voices. M&A stress-testing. Dual-Engine™ mapping of ADKAR® to the Hero's Journey. The most sophisticated change communication tool in the catalog.
Diagnose. Intervene. Convert.
Eight behavior patterns. Ten root causes. Branching conversation playbooks with ‘what to say if they say X’ logic. The Escalation Compass™ for when to handle, coach, escalate, or recruit. Dual-audience: manager mode and practitioner mode.
Read where they stand. Detect what is not spoken. Decide what to do next.
Stakeholder mapping built for the workflow, not the wall. Hidden Resistance Detection™ scans against the Six Tells. Signal-to-Map Translation™ converts every quote into named, time-bound interventions. Three operating modes that match how change managers actually work. Confidentiality Architecture and Reassessment Triggers built in for ongoing lifecycle use.
Predict what will block adoption. Fix it before it does.
Current State → Future State gap analysis across seven dimensions. Eight barrier types with pattern matching. Severity scoring by likelihood and impact. Generates a sponsor-ready action plan with named owners, deadlines, and the specific decisions leadership must make.
Discover the impacts. Translate them into a language people hear.
The Three-Box Framework™ for task-level impact mapping. SME Interview Intelligence generates tailored questions for each workstream and job group. WIIFM Translation Engine converts project language into personal value propositions. Cross-group impact detection. Training handoff flagging. Gap detection and follow-up.
Prepare for the questions nobody expected or rehearsed.
Trap Door Detection™ audits your announcement for vulnerabilities. Audience-segmented question prediction with severity scoring. The Three-Response Architecture™: direct, bridge, and honest unknown options. Follow-up prediction. Room temperature calibration.
One message. Six channels. Zero drift.
Core Message Lock™ ensures substance never drifts across formats. Six channel-native outputs: email, Slack/Teams, intranet, manager talking points, SMS, and town hall speaking notes. Red flag scanning for cross-channel conflicts. Cascade sequencing. Tone calibration by change type.
Stop guessing what your stakeholders are feeling. Start knowing.
Pulse Logic™ diagnostic engine with seven named patterns: Silent Team, Compliant Surface, The Splinter, Exhaustion Spiral, Rumor Mill, The Canary, and Performer Mask. Calibrated concern levels (1–5). Cross-cultural signal decoding. Specific action plans.
Map. Track. Prove.
Ties every promised benefit to the behaviors that produce it. Six named drift patterns: Silent Drift, Workaround Emergence, Cliff Drop, Uneven Adoption, Manager Passive Resistance, Metric Gaming. Realization Ledger and Close-Out Report scaffold delivered, not offered.
System feature-to-job role mapping. Gap analysis. Curriculum in minutes.
System feature-to-role impact mapping with interactive heatmap. Automated TNA generation with Bloom's taxonomy learning objectives. Shared module identification eliminates 30-50% redundant development. Interactive application output. Export to Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF.
Anyone can name a few champions. This runs the whole network, kickoff to roll off.
A champion network is only as strong as the way it's built, run, and listened to. This sizes and charters it for real coverage with the Network Coverage Model™, coaches your champions in your own methodology, and runs a Signal Loop™ that turns what the floor is actually saying into routed action. It carries the network through every stage, so your advocates stay active and your early-warning system never goes quiet.
Sponsor coalition mapped, collisions flagged, vision content in your leaders' hands.
One committed sponsor is not a coalition. This builds the one your change actually depends on, and reads every leader on evidence, not on a nod in the room. It sizes who really gates the outcome, names the structural conflicts before they harden into resistance, and arms your sponsor to move their own peers instead of sending you to do it. From technology rollouts to AI adoption to M&A integrations, it works the leadership layer that quietly decides whether a change lands, and holds the line where change work stops and HR begins.
Know exactly where your message is strong. Know exactly where it’s exposed.
Paste any draft change communication and get a structured audit across six dimensions: audience specificity, WIIFM clarity, shadow narrative exposure, action clarity, tone and emotional intelligence, and jargon risk. Traffic-light ratings, specific language flagged, and actionable recommendations, in minutes.
Every skill. 80+ languages. Zero extra cost.
Every skill in the catalog works in over 80 languages out of the box. Prompt in English, get output in Japanese. Prompt in Portuguese, get output in Arabic. Cultural context is maintained, not just word translation. No add-ons. No language packs. It just works.
Built by a practitioner. Not a tech company.
Change Essentials AI was built by Gretchen Asher, a change management practitioner with three decades of Fortune 500 and M&A experience. Every skill encodes the methodology, the frameworks, and the professional judgment that a generic AI doesn’t have.
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