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The CEO in You Podcast with Melissa Hartmann
After two decades leading complex growth and transformation across global corporates and scale-ups, I now help senior professionals lead with greater influence, secure bigger outcomes, and shape their careers on their terms.
If you're ready to step into the CEO role of your life, and your leadership, you're in the right place.
Inside The CEO in You, you'll find strategies on executive influence, stakeholder alignment and navigating large-scale change. This is where bold leaders become high-impact transformation experts, without burnout, politics or second-guessing.
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The CEO in You Podcast with Melissa Hartmann
Ep. 8 The Biggest Challenges in Transformation Today
If you’re leading transformation or thinking about it, this one’s for you.
In this episode, we go behind the scenes of why so many transformations stall, falter, or quietly fall apart. After two decades inside large-scale transformations, I’ve seen the same patterns play out repeatedly. And they’re costing organisations millions in wasted effort, lost credibility, and burnt-out leaders.
We unpack what’s really going on when change efforts struggle to take root, and what separates the ones that succeed.
You’ll hear:
- Why transformation leaders are often set up to fail and what meaningful sponsorship actually looks like
- The hidden cost of asking people to lead change “off the side of their desk”
- What resistance really is and why it’s not personal, it’s systemic
- How to know when it’s not you, it’s the environment you’re in
This is a call to leaders, sponsors, and executives alike. If you want change, you have to back it in properly.
Let’s stop pretending transformation can be done without air cover, time, or focus. And let’s stop burning out the leaders trying to create your future.
Where to find Melissa Hartmann:
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