Change Management: Working Skillfully with the Inevitable

David Waters

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSession rating: 3.9/5 from 84 participants
Change Management: Working Skillfully with the Inevitable
David Waters
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David Waters

David Waters is a business coach, psychotherapist, and corporate trainer with over fifteen years’ experience working with globally recognised organisations including Meta, NTT Data, Viacom, and the Southbank Centre. He has been a faculty member of The School of Life since 2010.

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Session Summary

This practical and insightful talk draws on business psychology to explore how individuals experience and respond to change. David examines the dual nature of change as both exciting and disruptive, helping participants understand their own habitual reactions and assumptions.

Through powerful examples and applied tools, this talk offers clear strategies for managing uncertainty with greater awareness and flexibility. Participants will learn useful insights and practical takeaways to navigate change more confidently, recognising it as an unavoidable and workable part of their working lives.

Interaction

During the expert session, David Waters engages the audience through methods like Q&A sessions, live demonstrations, and interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app.

According to participants

What people said afterwards.

From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.

Thank you for the session. David Waters is a fantastic speaker and presenter, and I look forward to more opportunities like this.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Very interesting facts which help in real life situations. Thank you David.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
David, I really enjoyed your webinar. Btw, you should be narrating books!
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
I felt this training was very valuable. I found with the way it was set up that it allowed for leadership to bring up topics anonymously that people talk about frequently but are also fearful to do so. I see a lot of value in continuing these.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
One has to change is as common as ones day-to-day life, and that it should be embraced as a very powerful tool. I think this lecture reduces the fear of/for change by many of us listening
In answer to “What have you learned?”
I have taken courses in this topic officially. So while the content was familiar it was a good refresher.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
No fear. Have no fear! Very good presentation and simple effective messages
In answer to “What have you learned?”
It was a great session and he was very informative.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
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Questions about Change Management: Working Skillfully with the Inevitable

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

This practical and insightful talk draws on business psychology to explore how individuals experience and respond to change. David examines the dual nature of change as both exciting and disruptive, helping participants understand their own habitual reactions and assumptions. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

Is David the right expert for this?

David Waters is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 3.9 out of 5, across 103 responses, and rate David personally 4.1 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief David, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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