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A new change management specialist designed to help your business deliver change successfully.
Our aim is to empower you to deliver change better.

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James Tole, Director of The Change Companion

About Us

The Change Companion is an exciting new change management specialist whose purpose is to empower companies to deliver change more successfully. We offer a range of services that we believe can add real value to you and be tailored to your specific requirements and budgets.

The company is owned and run by James Tole, a successful and dynamic change professional with over 26 years of experience. James has held senior change positions across his career working at both portfolio, programme and project level working in highly regulated and complex environments.

James has spent his career running large change teams and has a track record of recovering failing programmes, dealing with ambiguity and delivering complex portfolios of change.

James is an authentic, outcome focussed leader who is also an accredited executive coach and able to bring this skill set into our service offering.

The Change Companion is a result of James’ vision to build his own company to support businesses to deliver change. We believe that regardless of size or sector, The Change Companion can support you and help you deliver your change agenda more successfully.

Services

The Change Companion aims to support all aspects of change management to improve your change capability and enable you to unlock your strategy. Some of the core services we can provide are:

Project and Programme Management
Need help with setting up your programme or project in the right way? Do you have a failing project that you would benefit from an independent review? The Change Companion can do this and more.
Portfolio Management
We can advise you on ways to set-up and manage your change portfolio. Enabling you to focus on the right projects at the right time, ensuring these are aligned to your business strategy.
Change Methodology
The Change Companion can evaluate your current change management approach and methodology. We identify opportunities for improvement, looking at how well it is understood and embedded in the business, ensuring it aligns with your firm’s risk appetite.
Executive Coaching
We provide accredited executive coaching for change professionals, sponsors, and business leaders to unlock their potential, to better lead and deliver your change initiatives.
Stakeholder Engagement
The Change Companion can help build effective and tailored strategies to engage your stakeholders, manage feedback and address concerns.
Assurance
We offer a diagnostic assessment of your portfolio and programme/projects. We identify strengths, weaknesses, and optimisation opportunities. Clients gain actionable insights for continuous improvement.
Annual Operating Planning
We can look at how you are running your annual operating plan for your change initiatives stack and look for areas of improvement.
Governance and Control
We can assist with designing and implementing proportionate governance and control frameworks. Allowing for improved risk management, increased transparency of delivery progress and more timely decision-making

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About Us

Services

Project and Programme Management

Portfolio Management

Change Methodology

Executive Coaching

Stakeholder Engagement

Assurance

Annual Operating Planning

Governance and Control

Get in touch

James Tole

Company Director

The Change Companion

Tel: 07730 820092

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