Guide · Oct 2026 · 22 min
Change leadership: a practitioner's guide
What change leadership is, how it differs from change management, and what leaders do to make change hold. A research-backed guide from Vitr Pathways.
Thinking
Articles, whitepapers and field notes on change and leadership
Whitepapers and tools
Tool · July 2026 · 4 min
Would your leadership team score your culture the same way you do?
Most leaders find out their culture has drifted only after it shows up in turnover and the numbers. Our free five-minute Culture Health Check helps you see it sooner.
Whitepaper · Feb 2026 · 19 pages
The average mis-hire costs 15 times their salary. Here's the fix.
The Vitr CLEAR Hiring Framework: Topgrading distilled for Australian SMEs. Roughly 80% of the benefit at 25% of the time (our estimate).
Whitepaper · Oct 2025 · 18 pages
Why half your employees can't name your values
A practitioner's framework for writing purpose, vision and values that hold under pressure, drawn from work inside real leadership teams.
Field notes
Field note · July 2026 · 4 min
The gun hire
The revenue promise was real. So was the risk. A field note on the hardest kind of hiring call, and what rebuilding looks like when it goes the wrong way.
Field note · July 2026 · 4 min
The technology company that ran on paper
They sold technology for a living and processed every order by hand. A field note on an ERP rollout that was flagging by the time we arrived, and why the fix started with stepping back.
Guides
Guide · Oct 2026 · 10 min
Change management models compared: which ones are worth using
Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin, Bridges and McKinsey 7S compared: what each change model is good for, where it falls short and what the evidence says.
Guide · Oct 2026 · 9 min
Measuring change: how to tell whether a change is working and holding
How to measure change management success: readiness, adoption, leading and lagging indicators, and how to tell whether a change will last.
Guide · Oct 2026 · 9 min
The leader's role in change: what sponsors and managers need to do
What executive sponsors, leadership teams and middle managers each need to do to make a change work, and the mistakes that stall it.
Guide · Oct 2026 · 10 min
Leading AI adoption: how to bring your people with you
Why AI adoption is mostly a people challenge, what staff worry about, and how leaders can introduce AI so people actually use it.
Guide · Oct 2026 · 7 min
Adaptive leadership: a practical guide for problems with no easy answer
What adaptive leadership is, how to tell technical problems from adaptive challenges, and how to put Heifetz's principles into practice.
Guide · Oct 2026 · 7 min
Change fatigue: what it is and what leaders can do about it
What change fatigue is, how to spot it, what causes it and how leaders can prevent it. A practical, research-backed guide from Vitr Pathways.
Guide · Oct 2026 · 22 min
Change leadership: a practitioner's guide
What change leadership is, how it differs from change management, and what leaders do to make change hold. A research-backed guide from Vitr Pathways.
Guide · July 2026 · 7 min
Resistance to change: what people are really defending
Why people resist change, what the change curve shows, and how leaders can respond at each stage. A practical guide to resistance to change from Vitr Pathways.