Events
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Future Events
Leading Through LGR: A Psychological Perspective
12:00 - 13:00, 30th January 2026
Via Zoom
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.
Past Events
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.
Culture Change in Housing
November 2025
Are you a CEO or Director with concerns about your culture in Housing Services?
If so you’ll understand the complexity of the world of housing, and how this can influence culture.
Join us for “Culture change in Housing Services”, a panel discussion with our team of experts talking all things culture. Organisational Psychologist Lucy Trueman, will chair a discussion with Justin Hunt, our Principal Housing Specialist, and Graeme Beedham our Tenant Engagement Lead on all things housing and change.
What you’ll gain:
We’ll talk through the challenges specific to housing services including:
The impact of the regulator on culture around stress
Different types of demands in housing services
Leading different types of culture, and how they can vary from service to service
Dealing with resistance to change
Why attend?
Who better to hear from than a housing specialist, an engagement expert and an organisational psychologist when it comes to housing culture change? If you are struggling with low performance, resistance to change and problematic behaviour in your housing services, this is the session for you.
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