Deep change experience, shared through books, training and selective advisory
Human Factors Advisory began in organisational change management, helping thousands of stakeholders adjust to new ways of working. Coaching now leads the practice, and the change expertise flows into three focused offerings. Advisory engagements are selective and taken subject to existing commitments and conflict-of-interest checks.
Change advisory
Practical guidance for change leads, sponsors and project teams: change strategy, stakeholder engagement, communications, resistance and change fatigue. Grounded in the approach set out in The Change Manager's Companion.
Training delivery
Workshops and programs that build real capability in change management, change communications and the human side of transformation, for change teams, leaders and project professionals.
Analytics
Measurement that tells you what's actually happening: stakeholder sentiment, adoption and readiness insights that turn "we think" into "we know", so you can adjust before problems set in.
The Change Manager's Companion Online Course
The companion course to the book: practical change management you can apply to a live project, at your own pace.
- Built on the approach in The Change Manager's Companion: the human side of change, end to end
- Practical tools and templates for stakeholders, resistance, communications and measurement
- Self-paced and online, so you can fit it around a real change project
- For change practitioners, project professionals and leaders responsible for change
Who it suits
New and mid-career change practitioners building a dependable toolkit; project managers and business analysts handed the "people side"; and leaders who want their change to actually stick.
Questions about fit, team access or corporate invoicing? Get in touch.
AI in change, with judgement rather than hype
Allan has been applying AI to change management since 2021, writing publicly about AI in change communications, AI-assisted brainstorming and AI tools for business presentations — and building with it: the AI assistant on this site is custom-trained on his books and articles.
For organisations, that translates to practical help: where AI genuinely accelerates change work (communications, analysis, training content), where it doesn't, and how to bring people along when AI itself is the change you're introducing.
Try the AI assistantAI adoption is a change program
Most AI initiatives do not fail on the technology. They fail on adoption. The same human factors that decide any change decide this one: trust, capability, confidence and habit.
That's where more than a decade of change practice plus hands-on AI capability earn their keep.
Fit-for-size engagements
No big-consultancy machinery. Engagements are scoped to the problem: from a few advisory sessions alongside your change lead, to training a team, to designing the measurement for a major program.
- A scoping conversation to understand the change and its people
- A clear, plain English proposal: what, when and how much
- Delivery alongside your team, building capability as we go
Why it works
Most change efforts do not fail on the plan. They fail on the people. The practice combines change management craft with coaching psychology: how people actually think, feel and decide when their work changes underneath them.
Sustainable change comes from understanding the system you're changing, then deliberate practice over grand gestures.
Tell me about the change you're leading
A short conversation is usually enough to work out whether I can help, and how.