The Change Navigator

The Change Navigator's framework borrows directly from organizational consultant William Bridges' 1979 work on transitions, every change begins with an ending, moves through a disorienting Neutral Zone, and eventually opens into a New Beginning, paired with psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente's stages-of-change research, adapted here for transitions nobody chose. The book's central visual, the Universal Transition Map, plots five phases that blend into one another with no hard borders: External Event, Ending, the Neutral Zone, New Beginning, and Integration. Six recurring composite figures walk through the book alongside the reader, and the appendices include a complete worksheet library, Change Readiness Assessment scoring, and a 30-Day Change Navigation Plan.