Events
We love talking about public sector change! Join one of our free, online Change Chats to hear from a range of speakers, or see below which events we're involved in.
Future Events
Why People Resist Change
12:00 - 13:00, 13th March 2026
Via Zoom
Are you a leader, manager, or change professional navigating disruption in your organisation?
Change can be tough – not just for those experiencing it, but for those leading it too. Resistance to change is often seen as a problem to fix, but what if it’s actually a rational response? Understanding why people resist change is key to reducing friction, building trust, and leading more effectively through disruption.
Join us for our Change Chat: "Why People Resist Change”, an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will explore the human side of change, helping you understand the behaviours and emotions that arise during disruption – and how to respond in ways that make change smoother for everyone.
What You’ll Gain
This session will help you step back and look at resistance to change through a fresh lens. We’ll cover:
- Why resistance is often a rational response to disruption
- How disruption affects behaviour differently across organisations and roles
- How culture and past experiences amplify or dampen resistance
- Practical ways to respond to resistance that reduce friction and build trust
Why Attend?
Change isn’t just about new systems, structures, or processes – it’s about people. Leaders who understand the human side of change are better equipped to guide their teams, reduce conflict, and create a culture of trust and collaboration.
This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and learn practical tools to help you lead through disruption with confidence and empathy.
Leave feeling better equipped to understand and respond to resistance – and ready to lead change in a way that works for everyone.
Why Culture Matters When Merging
12:00 - 13:00, 24th April 2026
Via Zoom
Are you a leader, manager, or change professional navigating a merger or large-scale organisational change?
Mergers bring big opportunities – but they also bring big challenges, especially when it comes to culture. Culture is the invisible glue that holds organisations together, and during a merger, it can become fragile. Without careful attention, cultural ‘collisions’ can erode trust, identity, and performance.
Join us for our Change Chat: "Why Culture Matters When Merging”, an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will explore the hidden dynamics of culture during mergers and provide practical tools to help leaders shape a new shared culture that works.
What You’ll Gain
This session will help you understand the critical role of culture in mergers and how to navigate it effectively. We’ll cover:
- What culture really is and why it becomes fragile during mergers
- The hidden risks of cultural ‘collision’
- How to spot culture gaps early before they become problems
- What leaders can do to actively shape a new shared culture
Why Attend?
Mergers aren’t just about combining systems, structures, or teams – they’re about combining people and cultures. Leaders who understand the dynamics of culture are better equipped to protect trust, identity, and performance during times of transition.
This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and gain practical tools to lead through mergers with confidence and clarity.
Leave feeling better equipped to shape a culture that supports your organisation’s goals – and its people
How Teams Support Each Other Through LGR (A Psychological Perspective)
12:00 - 13:00, 5th June 2026
Via Zoom
Discover how teams can stay resilient during LGR. Explore uncertainty, identity, and practical ways to protect performance and culture.
Are you a leader, manager, or change professional navigating the complexities of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)?
LGR can bring significant uncertainty, identity challenges, and change fatigue to teams. While leaders work to provide clarity, it’s often the informal dynamics within teams that determine whether they thrive or struggle during transition. Understanding how teams support each other – and what they need to stay resilient – is critical to protecting performance and culture.
Join us for our Change Chat: "How Teams Support Each Other Through LGR (A Psychological Perspective)", an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This session will delve into the psychological dynamics of teams during LGR and provide practical tools to help teams navigate uncertainty together.
What You’ll Gain
This session will help you understand the hidden dynamics of team resilience during LGR and how to foster it effectively. We’ll cover:
- How uncertainty, identity threat, and change fatigue show up in teams during LGR
- The informal behaviours that make-or-break team resilience
- What teams need from each other when leaders don’t yet have answers
- Practical ways teams can protect performance and culture through transition
Why Attend?
LGR isn’t just about restructuring systems or roles – it’s about how people adapt and support each other through uncertainty. Teams that understand the psychological dynamics of change are better equipped to maintain trust, collaboration, and performance during challenging times.
This session offers a chance to pause, reflect, and gain practical tools to help your teams navigate LGR with resilience and empathy.
Leave feeling better equipped to support your teams through transition – and ready to foster a culture that thrives, even in uncertainty.
Past Events
Leading Through LGR: A Psychological Perspective
January 2026
Are you a CEO, Director or Senior Manager leading a council through Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)?
As LGR gathers pace, the structural changes are only part of the story. Behind every new model, governance decision and timetable sits a complex human response. Uncertainty, loss of identity, heightened emotion and competing narratives can significantly affect behaviour, decision-making and leadership effectiveness - often long before formal changes take place.
Join us for ‘Leading Through LGR: A Psychological Perspective’, an engaging online session led by Lucy Trueman, Organisational Psychologist and Founder of Trueman Change. This event brings a distinctive psychological lens to LGR, helping leaders better understand what’s happening beneath the surface - and how to lead people through it with clarity, compassion and confidence.
Drawing on organisational psychology, research, and real-world experience, Lucy will explore how leaders can navigate the emotional and behavioural dynamics of LGR while maintaining momentum, trust and resilience.
What You’ll Gain
This session will help you step back from the operational noise of reorganisation and focus on the human factors that can make or break change. We’ll explore:
- How people typically respond psychologically to large-scale reorganisation - and why behaviours may shift under prolonged uncertainty
- The hidden emotional and identity impacts of LGR on leaders, managers and teams
- Practical psychological tools to support resilience, self-regulation and constructive leadership behaviours
- How to reduce conflict, manage anxiety and lead more effectively when answers are still emerging
Why Attend?
LGR is not just a technical or political process — it is a deeply human one. Leaders who understand the psychological dynamics at play are better equipped to steady their teams, make sound decisions under pressure and lead with credibility throughout prolonged change.
This session offers a rare opportunity to pause, reflect and learn from a psychological perspective, while connecting with peers facing similar challenges across the sector.
Leave feeling better equipped to lead yourself and others through LGR - not just structurally, but humanly.
Middle/Senior Management Challenges During LGR
December 2025
Are you a CEO, Leader or Manager going through LGR?
If so you’ll be at the forefront of leading during a highly uncertain time. The challenges of leading change at this scale can be overwhelming, and we’re here to help.
Join us for “LGR Support for Leaders and Managers” to help plan ahead, boost your resilience and prepare to be the best leader you can.
What you’ll gain:
In this session our Organisational Psychologist Lucy Trueman will walk through our recent research on the experience of those who have lead LGR before, along with some key psychology concepts that help to understand the scale of the challenge. Topics we’ll cover include:
- Why leading through uncertainty is challenging
- Lessons from those who have been through LGR
- Conflict likely to arise during the process
- The importance of mindset
- Leading others while balancing your own resilience
Why attend?
This session will combine research, practical examples, and tools/techniques you can apply to improve your resilience, wellbeing and leadership style during this challenging period.
Leading Change – Drawing on Psychology
November 2025
Are you a public sector CEO, Leader or Director leading change in your organisation?
If so you’ll know first hand how difficult it can be! For too many years we have relied solely on project and programme management to drive change, and while it’s a great tool for structure and planning, it often neglects the “people side of change”.
Join us for “Leading Change: Drawing on Psychology” to hear our Organisational Psychologist argue the case that project management alone isn’t enough! We’ll be talking all things culture, behaviour, resistance to change and staff engagement.
What you’ll gain:
We’ll walk through a range of psychology concepts which can help us to understand what happens when organisations go through change and transformation, and how they can help us be better leaders. We’ll discuss topics such as:
- Why culture eats strategy for breakfast
- Why people resist change and how to deal with it
- What impacts our motivation
- What good staff engagement really looks like
- How to lead well during uncertain times.
Why attend?
Whether you are going through LGR, restructures, or general change and transformation, in this session our Founder and Organisational Psychologist Lucy Trueman will walk through research, evidence based tools and techniques, and help you to improve your change leadership.
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