Pragmatic Change: Leading complex programs in organisations…

built for a world that no longer exists.

Coming Late 2026

For leaders and practitioners who sense their programme is failing despite the plan. Pragmatic Change replaces methodology theatre with the evidence, honesty, and distributed practice that actually works.

Most organisations are still running a 2005 change model on 2025 problems.

The playbook — appoint a sponsor, hire a change manager, do comms, run training, go live, declare success — was designed for stable hierarchies and clear authority.

That world is largely gone. And yet the model persists, in Gantt charts, in steering committees, in the quiet confidence of leaders who've done this before.

Pragmatic Change is written for the leaders who know something isn't working, and the practitioners helping them do something about it.

Drawing on 20 years of programme delivery across mining, manufacturing, government, and financial services, grounded in the behavioural science most change frameworks ignore, it replaces the procedural with the practical.

This is not another framework. It's a way of thinking.

Who is the book for?

Senior leaders navigating transformation who sense the current approach isn't working.

Change practitioners tired of methodology theatre and looking for what the evidence actually says.

Programme directors responsible for outcomes, not just activities.

About the author

Mark Winter has spent 20 years leading complex change across mining, manufacturing, government, and financial services. He writes about what actually works, the times he stuffed up and what most playbooks get wrong.

Read his experience or gauge more of his thoughts.