Change Accelerators
nepf’s Change Accelerators are targeted, discrete solutions to quickly solve your biggest change and transformation challenges, typically within 4 weeks.
When driving transformation, leaders often encounter common obstacles - resistance, unclear communication, misalignment, or gaps in internal capability - that can derail even the most well-planned initiatives. Traditional change management approaches often take too long, are overly complex, or fail to address these barriers head-on.
nepf’s suite of Change Accelerators rapidly address your toughest transformation challenges with speed, clarity, and measurable impact. Each Accelerator is a targeted solution designed to quickly identify and resolve a specific barrier, getting your teams unstuck and your initiatives back on track within weeks - not months.
Actioning the Vision
Ensure your strategy is actively driving decisions, behaviors, and results across the organization.
Make the Case for Change
Craft a powerful, persuasive narrative that engages stakeholders, secures buy-in, and removes barriers to execution.
Change Resilience Builder
Equip your teams with the mindset, strategies, and tools to navigate uncertainty, sustain performance, and drive transformation forward.
Building Change Muscle
Develop lasting in-house capability, ensuring your teams can anticipate, navigate, and sustain change as a core business function.
Ensure Your Vision Delivers Real Impact
A compelling strategy is only as powerful as its execution. Leaders often find that even the most promising plans stall without clear ownership, structured execution, and measurable progress. The Actioning the Vision Accelerator bridges this gap - equipping leaders with the structure, ownership, and execution discipline needed to turn vision into reality.
In just a few weeks, this focused, high-impact engagement ensures your strategy is actively driving decisions, behaviors, and results across the organization.
Align leadership for execution
Establish clear ownership and accountability
Develop execution roadmaps, milestones, and tools
Design and implement communication and cascading strategy
Sustain execution and course-correct, as needed
Actioning the Vision
Outcomes You Can Expect:
Execution-Ready Strategic Plans: Clear, actionable roadmaps that turn high-level objectives into focused, measurable execution.
Increased Accountability & Ownership: Defined ownership at every level, ensuring leaders drive execution with clarity and consistency.
Accelerated Execution: Faster, more efficient implementation of strategic priorities, reducing delays and increasing impact.
Stronger Organizational Engagement: Aligned teams with clear priorities, reducing execution friction and increasing confidence in delivering results.
Sustained Momentum & Impact: A structured, repeatable approach that ensures long-term follow-through and measurable progress toward business goals, preventing strategy from stalling at the leadership level.
Clarify the Why, Identify and Align Stakeholders, Accelerate Commitment
A strong transformation effort starts with a compelling reason for change. When stakeholders don’t fully understand the “why,” resistance increases, momentum slows, and securing the necessary resources and commitment becomes a battle.
The Case for Change Accelerator ensures your initiative starts with clarity, urgency, and alignment. This high-impact, short-term engagement helps you craft a powerful, persuasive narrative that engages stakeholders, secures buy-in, and removes barriers to execution.
Develop a persuasive, business-driven case for change
Map stakeholder influence and design engagement strategies
Equip leaders with messaging and influence frameworks
Develop compelling communication and storytelling techniques
Define success criteria and metrics
Make the Case for Change
Outcomes You Can Expect:
Stronger Stakeholder Commitment: Increased leadership and organizational alignment around the urgency and necessity of change.
A Clear, Persuasive Change Narrative: A compelling, well-articulated story that connects the change effort to strategic business priorities.
Reduced Resistance & Increased Adoption: Proactive engagement strategies that address concerns and drive participation at all levels.
Faster Resource & Funding Approvals: A structured business case that accelerates decision-making and removes financial roadblocks.
Sustained Momentum & Execution Confidence: Leaders equipped with the right tools, messaging, and alignment to drive change forward with clarity and conviction.
Identify Resistance Early to Eliminate Roadblocks
Unaddressed resistance is one of the leading causes of transformation failure. When employees hesitate, stakeholders push back, or uncertainty spreads, even the best-planned initiatives stall. The Resistance Identification Accelerator helps you diagnose the root causes of resistance early, analyze stakeholder concerns, and develop proactive strategies to secure stronger commitment.
This 3-4 week structured engagement provides leaders with the insights, tools, and action plans to anticipate, understand, and reduce resistance before it slows down execution.
Detect resistance hotspots early
Analyze stakeholder risk and influence
Assess behavioral and cultural barriers
Develop targeted intervention strategies
Monitor and adapt resistance mitigation strategies in real-time
Resistance Identification
Outcomes You Can Expect:
Early Identification of Barriers to Adoption: A clear understanding of where and why resistance is forming before it slows progress.
Stronger Stakeholder Insights & Alignment: A data-backed approach to uncovering hidden objections and proactively engaging key influencers.
Faster Issue Resolution & Smoother Execution: Resistance is surfaced and addressed early, reducing delays and avoiding major disruptions.
Increased Employee Buy-In & Engagement: Teams feel heard and supported, reducing friction and increasing willingness to embrace change.
Reduced Risk of Transformation Failure: A structured, proactive approach to mitigating resistance, keeping initiatives on track and accelerating impact.
Equip Leaders to Champion Change with Confidence
Change succeeds or fails based on the strength of its leaders. When sponsors and executives are aligned, engaged, and equipped with the right tools, change gains momentum. When they lack clarity, confidence, or alignment, transformation efforts weaken, resistance grows, and execution gaps emerge. Leadership isn’t just about approving change — it’s about actively driving it.
The Change Mastery for Leaders & Sponsors Accelerator ensures leaders have the skills, structure, and influence strategies needed to guide teams through transformation effectively. In just a few weeks, we transform leaders into effective change sponsors - aligning teams, reinforcing accountability, and driving execution with confidence.
Clarify leadership roles in change
Establish a unified change sponsorship approach
Strengthen communication and storytelling skills
Develop sponsorship influence and accountability strategies
Embed long-term change capability in leadership
Change Mastery for Leaders & Sponsors
Outcomes You Can Expect:
Stronger Change Leadership & Sponsorship: Leaders and sponsors gain the confidence, skills, and frameworks to actively drive and sustain change.
Clear Leadership Accountability & Role Alignment: Defined responsibilities ensure leaders take ownership, reinforce expectations, and drive execution with consistency.
Faster & More Effective Change Execution: Leaders proactively remove barriers, engage teams, and accelerate transformation success.
Clear, Consistent Change Messaging: A unified leadership voice ensures clarity, alignment, and reduced uncertainty across the organization.
Embedded Change Capability for Future Transformations: Leaders leave with practical, repeatable skills and tools that can be applied across all future change efforts.
Build Enterprise Change Capability with the Skills and Systems to Adapt and Thrive
Most organizations react to change - but the ones that succeed build it into their DNA. Organizations often lack consistent playbooks, skilled internal support, and a scalable approach for leading change. As a result, every initiative feels like starting from scratch - draining resources, slowing execution, and increasing resistance. Organizations that treat change as a core business capability drive transformation with greater speed, consistency, and success.
This program helps you develop lasting in-house capability, ensuring your teams can anticipate, navigate, and sustain change as a core business function.
Operationalize and embed change as a core capability
Establish a standardized and scalable change infrastructure
Integrate change and agility into decision-making
Foster an adaptive, change-ready culture
Assess and monitor change maturity over time
Building Change Muscle
Outcomes You Can Expect:
Enterprise-Wide Change Capability: A structured, scalable approach that ensures your organization can lead, manage, and sustain transformation efforts with confidence.
Integrated & Repeatable Change Execution: A standardized change framework that removes inconsistencies, increases efficiency, and reduces friction across transformation efforts.
Stronger Cross-Functional Change Leadership: Leaders and teams across departments are aligned in their approach, speak a common change language, and drive execution consistently.
Faster, More Predictable Change Adoption: Embedded systems and processes ensure that teams absorb change more efficiently, reducing resistance and accelerating transformation success.
Sustained Change Maturity & Adaptability: A long-term, scalable approach to managing change that ensures continuous improvement, faster adoption, and sustained transformation success.
Strengthen Your Organization’s Ability to Adapt and Perform
Disruption isn’t an exception - it’s the new normal. Organizations that struggle with change experience declining performance, burnout, and stalled transformation efforts. Those that thrive build resilience build resilience into their culture, equipping teams to navigate uncertainty with confidence. Resilient organizations turn disruption into a competitive advantage.
The Change Resilience Builder equips you and your teams with the mindset, strategies, and tools to navigate uncertainty, sustain performance, and drive transformation forward.
Turn resistance into readiness
Build a culture of adaptability
Maintain high performance during change
Strengthen leadership confidence in uncertain environments
Embed long-term change capability
Change Resilience Builder
Outcomes:
Increased organizational agility: Teams are more adaptable, reducing resistance and accelerating change adoption.
Stronger employee engagement and retention: Employees feel supported, valued, and empowered, reducing turnover and burnout.
Sustained business performance: Minimized disruption to operations, ensuring continuity and momentum during transformation.
Resilient leadership: Leaders gain the tools and confidence to guide their teams through uncertainty with clarity and strength.
