Jess Tayel
Navigating the Uncharted: Proactive Change Capability as a Competitive Advantage
Dr Jess Tayel is the Founder of the Transformation Leadership Institute (TLI) and a global advisor to Executive Teams, Transformation & Change Teams, and C-Level leaders. With over 25 years of experience, she is a recognised authority in lifting strategy execution and building proactive change capability. Jess is known for a direct, practical approach that cuts through the noise to deliver clarity and measurable outcomes in complex environments.
At the forefront of modern transformation, Jess solves today’s toughest challenges, from AI adoption to accelerated growth agendas. She translates these “lessons from the field” into actionable frameworks for the TLI community, making it the premier destination for developing the “GO-TO” leaders in the change and transformation space. Her work empowers practitioners and organisations to bridge the gap between strategy and sustainable adoption.
Join this workshop –
Most organizations still treat change like a project with a fixed destination, but in “Uncharted” environments, the goalposts are always shifting. This session reveals how to move beyond rigid, project-based delivery toward a proactive, continuous change capability that supports strategy execution in real-time. I will share a practical case study on building this “sensing” capability… detailing the governance, behavioral habits, and the AI-Enabled Advantage used to gain speed and decision support. We will explore how to build a capability that adapts to what is happening now without the need for excessive planning, turning change into a scalable strength rather than an organizational drain.
Session Outline
This session is delivered in three acts designed to shift the practitioner’s mindset:
-The End of the Static Roadmap: Why traditional change models fail when there is no agreed end-state and how to shift toward a proactive capability that thrives on uncertainty.
-Lessons from the Field: A deep dive into the case study”: the building blocks, the governance shifts, and how AI was used to provide proactive insights before the roadmap became obsolete.
-The 2030 Blueprint: The leadership principles and behavioral disciplines required to make change capability scalable, integrated, and a permanent competitive advantage.
