Welcome to our list of the best change management speakers of 2026.
What is Change Management?
Change management is the structured process of helping individuals and organizations prepare for, adopt, and sustain change so business goals can be achieved.
Source: Prosci: What Is Change Management?
Why is Change Management important?
In the dynamic world of business, change is the only constant. As organizations navigate through this ever-evolving landscape, the need for effective change management becomes increasingly critical. Moreover, preparing employees for the change is crucial to the organization’s success. This is where Change Management Speakers come into play. These are seasoned professionals who specialize in guiding businesses through periods of significant transformation. They are experts in their field, armed with a wealth of knowledge and experience to help organizations manage change effectively and efficiently.
Top 16 Change Management Speakers
Cassandra Worthy
Major restructures, digital shifts, and new operating models often stall when teams stay stuck in anxiety. Cassandra Worthy gives audiences a practical way to read their change emotions, redirect fear into momentum, and build the skills needed to lead through disruption. Her Change Enthusiasm® framework is especially useful for organizations managing mergers, acquisitions, restructures, or large-scale process change because it helps people adopt new ways of working faster and with less resistance.
Nicole Malachowski
When uncertainty drains momentum, leaders need a way to stay effective without pretending conditions are stable. Nicole Malachowski uses her “Harnessing Headwinds” keynote to show teams how to navigate organizational change, failure, and the unknown with more resilience and adaptability. Audiences leave with a clearer approach to regrouping under pressure, supporting others, and moving through disorienting transitions with confidence.
Polly LaBarre
Organizations facing structural change often struggle to redesign work without losing trust, performance, or purpose. Polly LaBarre speaks directly to that challenge, helping leaders create meaningful change in how work is designed while strengthening resilience and human potential. Her perspective is especially valuable for companies rethinking leadership, culture, and responsibility at the same time.
Tasha Eurich
Fast-moving change exposes a common leadership gap: people push through stress without building the self-awareness needed to adapt well. Dr. Tasha Eurich brings research-backed tools that help audiences strengthen self-awareness, improve adaptability, and sustain high performance in chaotic conditions. Her keynote “Becoming Shatterproof” is a strong fit for teams that need to manage change without burning out in the process.
Charlene Li
Transformation efforts lose traction when leaders cannot explain what is changing, why it matters, or how new technology fits into the business. Charlene Li helps audiences make sense of disruptive transformation and generative AI with unusual clarity, drawing on work with organizations including Adobe, Southwest Airlines, the World Economic Forum, and TED. She is a strong choice for companies that need leaders to align around the future of work and make sharper decisions during periods of change.
Erica Dhawan
Change initiatives often break down in the gaps between teams, where duplication, delays, and weak communication slow execution. Erica Dhawan shows audiences how to use connectional intelligence to break down silos, strengthen collaboration, and keep stakeholders aligned across in-person and hybrid environments. That makes her especially relevant for organizations trying to turn change plans into coordinated action.
Dan Chuparkoff
AI adoption is now a change management issue as much as a technology issue, especially when teams feel unsure where to start. Dan Chuparkoff draws on leadership experience at Google, McKinsey, and Atlassian to help audiences understand emerging technology, reduce anxiety, and adopt practical new behaviors. His sessions are built to increase confidence, speed up adoption, and help teams use AI to improve performance and collaboration.
Dan Heath
Even obvious fixes can feel immovable when teams are trapped by routine and constant firefighting. Dan Heath, author of Reset, helps audiences identify leverage points, rethink buy-in, and create the feeling of progress that accelerates change. He is a sharp pick for leaders who need a practical framework for changing what is not working without overwhelming their teams.
Eric Termuende
Leaders cannot future-proof their teams by guessing what comes next; they need better habits for navigating uncertainty together. Eric Termuende, author of Rethink Work and co-founder of NoW of Work, gives audiences a research-backed blueprint for building trust, removing friction, and creating cultures of experimentation. His approach is well suited for organizations trying to stay productive, engaged, and innovative while the future of work keeps shifting.
Henna Pryor
Many high performers struggle with change because the habits that built their reputation stop serving them in a new environment. Henna Pryor addresses that tension head-on, using behavioral science and practical tools like neutral thinking to help teams respond more effectively to new expectations, technologies, and workplace pressure. Her sessions are designed to strengthen the mental and social skills people need when everything feels in flux.
Tucker Bryant
When teams default to routine, change efforts lose originality and innovation stalls. Tucker Bryant uses The Poet’s Keys™ to help leaders overcome barriers to change, unlock creative thinking, and turn disruption into new ideas people can act on. His work is especially useful for organizations that need fresh thinking rather than another predictable presentation about innovation.
Otmar Szafnauer
Large organizations often need change leadership that balances speed, culture, and execution under pressure. Otmar Szafnauer is a veteran Formula One Team Principal known for transforming teams and building high-performance cultures, with speaking topics that directly include change management, strategy, innovation, and culture transformation. He is a compelling option for audiences focused on leading through competitive, high-stakes transitions.
Rich Diviney
Change becomes harder when teams are exhausted, overly rigid, or built around the wrong measures of performance. Rich Diviney helps leaders build teams that thrive under pressure by focusing on the hidden attributes that support adaptability, trust, and optimal performance. Drawing on his books The Attributes and Masters of Uncertainty, he gives audiences a practical way to navigate uncertainty without driving people into burnout.
Yossi Sheffi
Operational change is difficult when leaders underestimate how disruption moves through complex systems. MIT professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi brings a rigorous view of risk, resilience, and the future of work, helping audiences prepare for disruption before it hits. His keynote based on The Magic Conveyor Belt is particularly relevant for organizations reshaping operations, supply chains, or workforce plans around automation and AI.
Chris Barton
Teams trying to innovate through change need more than inspiration; they need a way to challenge assumptions and keep moving when ideas look impossible. Chris Barton, the founder of Shazam, shows audiences how creative persistence and his Start from Zero methodology can help them defy barriers and build something new. For organizations that want disruption to lead to real invention, his story gives change a concrete operating mindset.
Tiffani Bova
Growth strategies often stall because internal change never reaches the employee experience that powers execution. Tiffani Bova, former Salesforce executive and author of The Experience Mindset and Growth IQ, helps leaders connect employee experience to customer outcomes, retention, productivity, and revenue. She is especially relevant for organizations managing transformation across departments and trying to align people around shared growth goals.
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