About DEFIANT

Authors of the recently launched book Defiant, Bartwin & Marcella are JAFAC’s only double act!

Marcella Koopman

With over ten years of experience in organisational transformations, I have seen a lot. Especially what does not work. While everyone's been lost in frameworks and roles, I've been on a stealth mission to crack the code of organisational development where it truly matters—the people.

 It's time to flip the script and ditch the monotony. I'm all about injecting life, passion, and genuine transformation into the heartbeat of every organisation. Let's turn the page on change and write a story that's as intriguing as it is impactful.

Bartwin van der Pols

The only constant in life is change…but we seem to constantly mess up the way we try to make change happen. Why? Because we never speak up about the sticky stuff: that we don’t really believe this change will work for us. That we suffer from change fatigue from all those earlier failed changes. And that we are actually rather anxious about any new change initiative.

Here is the good news: we can change that too. Let’s start by dropping the frameworks, roles, and imagined silver bullets of change. And then focus on where change really happens: us. Get defiant!

MAKING CHANGE STICK WORKSHOP

Did you know that over 70% of change initiatives fail? It is not for a lack of investment: annually, more than $10 billion USD is spent on change support (consultancy) and tools. There certainly isn’t a shortage of business coaches, agilists, or other professional change agents available to sort successful change either. So why can’t we make change stick?

During this interactive workshop you’ll understand what’s at the core of failing change initiatives, you’ll get challenged to identify your own beliefs about change, and you’ll be leaving with real solutions that will make change stick!