Choose Change: How to Build a Human-centered Workplace for Sustainable Success

by Dan Riley

An organization’s purpose and values are the DNA that makes them unique.  While traditional people science models of employee engagement and performance management have served us well for the last 20 years,  they aren’t enough for the fast-changing work landscape. Traditional employee engagement measures the psychological connection an individual has with their organization.  In today’s hybrid work scenarios — where work, life and culture have collided — engagement is not enough to address the increasing complexity of the psychology of workers.  We have to design employee experiences where work and organizational purpose are directly linked, and distributed teams can thrive. 

Choose Change  explains how. Alternating between lenses of both manager and individual contributor, it will dive into how organizations must foster a change mindset (with courage, connection, empathy, humility, transparency, & commitment) leveraging a four-part change approach (Inspire, Prepare, Activate, Answer) to create a sustainable human-centered culture. The people science of a whole person framework includes legacy employee engagement and culture constructs, as well as new constructs, physical, social, intellectual and spiritual wellbeing. 

 

 

224 pages, Hardcover

Published March 11, 2025