The Power to Change: How to Harness Change to Make it Work for You

Campbell Macpherson’s second book, The Power to Change, has been shortlisted for the 2021 Business Book Awards. His first book, The Change Catalyst, won the 2018 Business Book of the Year.

Campbell is a sought-after speaker and international business adviser on leadership, strategy and change. He helps CEOs and leaders to align their people to a clear strategy and build cultures that deliver sustainable change.

He gives keynote speeches across the globe and runs workshops for corporations on leading change, delivering change and embracing change worldwide. He is an anglicized Australian and an Executive Fellow of Henley Business School. He is married with two adult children and lives in Cheltenham, England.

Why did you write the book?

The Power to Change is the ying to The Change Catalyst’s yang. My first book was about leading change. The Power to Change is about embracing it. Successful and sustainable change requires both: leaders who can lead change and people who are ready, willing and able to embrace it.

What value does the book offer?

It provides the reader with the tools, mindset and approach we all need to embrace change and thrive in a world of uncertainty.

These last tumultuous twelve months have shown us all that the ability to accept uncertainty and embrace change are the most valuable skills that any of us can hone – for success and contentment at work and in life. The Power to Change helps the reader to understand the emotions we all experience during times of change – and accept them. It helps us to identify the barriers we erect to change and work to overcome them. It helps us to build our resilience. It helps us to embrace change, good and bad, and look for the opportunities.

What’s happened since you published the book?

The greatest gain has been an even deeper understanding of the facts that all change is personal, all change is emotional, and that none of us changes because we are told to – we only change if we want to. This has in turn enhanced the workshops and webinars that I run for organisations worldwide – and enabled me to learn even more about the complex and central subject of change from each of my delegates.

It has also provided insightful content for media outlets worldwide including Forbes, Fast Company, CEO Today, Thrive Global, CEO Magazine, CEO World Magazine, City AM, The European, Association of MBA’s, TV NZ, Sky News, Om Yoga, The Australian Financial Review, the CIPD annual conference and dozens of podcasts across the UK, US, Canada and Australia.

The Power to Change: How to Harness Change to Make it Work for You (Published by Kogan Page) is available to buy on Amazon. 

Connect with Campbell: LinkedIn – Twitter

Winners of The Business Book Awards 2021 will be revealed online on Tuesday 25th May 2021.