Change Leadership

80% of change projects fail. It's a staggering amount. The most common reason is a reluctance to change by the people involved. It's not surprising really: people make up a business and it's those same people who must accept and adapt to change. The difference between change management and change leadership is making the connection between organisational change and the human impact on all involved. This book will show you how to lead change, not just manage it. Bill Mann, founder of The Keep Calm Guy, has learnt the hard way about change. After a long career delivering change projects for many businesses it was his personal experiences of coping with the trauma of a suicide bomb attack, and losing his wife to cancer, that taught him how to find a path through change that other people will follow.  www.thekeepcalmguy.co.uk

Bill Mann was born and raised in Essex. From school he went to the University of Surrey to study Mathematics and Computer Science. It was there that he made the decision to make a career in Information Technology and joined a global software house as a graduate programmer. After several years in various technical roles he ultimately made the decision to follow a management career path. Bill has worked for a global hardware manufacturer, a small UK boutique consultancy, an Australian bank, a European network company, a US-based software product company, and a global financial services organisation, amongst others. He has seen business change from every perspective - a merger, an acquisition, joint venture, and local and global restructuring. He has seen countless re-organisations, transformation programmes, recruitments, promotions, redundancies, terminations, pay reviews, and so on. It was during his last role that Bill was caught up in the London bombings on 7th July 2005. He is the founder of The Keep Calm Guy consultancy firm.