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title: Changefirst appoints Transformational Life Solutions as partner in the Caribbean
description: Listen as CEO Cordell Williams-Graham explains plans for delivering our People Centred Implementation (PCI ®) Change Management training, certification and solutions in the Caribbean.
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# Changefirst appoints Transformational Life Solutions as partner in the Caribbean

Posted by [Audra Proctor](https://blog.changefirst.com/author/audra-proctor)

[Changefirst](https://www.changefirst.com/)is delighted to announce the appointment of [Transformational Life Solutions (TLS)](https://transformationallifesolutions.com/), led by CEO Cordell Williams-Graham, as a Full Delivery partner in the Caribbean.

Under the terms of the agreement, TLS becomes an exclusive provider of our People Centred Implementation (PCI ®) Change Management training, certification and solutions locally. 

As Audra Proctor, CEO of Changefirst explains “Cordell and the team at TLS share the same passion as Changefirst to equip leaders and their teams with the skills, tools and techniques they need to be better at delivering continuous change. We believe that his – allied to their deep local and cultural understanding in the Caribbean market will help us to accelerate our expansion there”. 

Listen as Cordell talks a little bit more about the partnership and plans for the region.  

 

 

### About Transformational Life Solutions 

![CordellWilliamsLogov2](https://blog.changefirst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/CordellWilliamsLogov2.png?width=195&height=203&name=CordellWilliamsLogov2.png)TLS is a training, life, and business coaching and change consulting company in Jamaica - and led by Mrs Cordell Williams-Graham. Cordell and her team have spent the last eight years helping their clients to build capability and resilience for change and transformation needed realize real sustained growth in their chosen markets. Their practical solutions and Cordell personal drive, skills and proven talents as a Change Maker have generated real results for organisations across the Caribbean.  

 

### Continued plans for partner expansion at Changefirst 

Changefirst continues to look to develop partnership with like-minded individuals and businesses in![Changefirst_logo_Hubspot](https://blog.changefirst.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Logo/Changefirst_logo_Hubspot.png?width=295&height=103&name=Changefirst_logo_Hubspot.png) a number of categories including:  

- **Associates** - work on an affiliate basis to deliver [training](https://www.changefirst.com/training) alongside [coaching and advisory services](https://www.changefirst.com/training/application-coaching-and-consulting) to our global client network
- **Consulting partners** - leverage the [Change Management methodology](https://www.changefirst.com/methodologies/pci), [digital platform](https://www.changefirst.com/change-management-products/roadmap-pro), [tools](https://www.changefirst.com/change-management-products/diagnostics-pro) and training to support and extend your client network
- **Full delivery partners** - represent and extend the Changefirst brand in a dedicated territory or sector providing regional and local access to our [full solution suite](https://www.changefirst.com/change-management-solutions). 

You can find out more [here](https://www.changefirst.com/about-us/partners).

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Posted by [Audra Proctor](https://blog.changefirst.com/author/audra-proctor)

Audra is Managing Director at Changefirst and has over 30 years' experience of enabling organisations leaders and their teams to deliver complex Organisational Change. She leads an amazing, diverse team of highly experienced multi-industry Change Practitioners, Consultants, Coaches, Trainers, Technology Experts and trusted Strategic Partners to help organisations to deliver more effective Change through their people. Audra is a regular speaker at events focusing on Change and Transformation globally on a number of key themes including Agile Change Management and the use of digital in Change and Transformation.

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Change Management plans I think need to be almost like MVP's in their own right. We need to be able to pick them up, we need to run with them, we need to be flexible. We need to be able to gather feedback quickly, and then roll that into the plan to improve it for the next iteration. My next response to practitioners is that Change Management needs to be earlier in an Agile environment. We need to engage people earlier. So, we need to be more upfront with our Change Management activities. We need senior sponsorship to be engaged. We need early wins, we need constant communication to maintain momentum. We need people analytics, we need a dashboard. We need to make sure that local managers are equipped and ready to help their teams.

I also say to practitioners that Change Management and project management need to integrate earlier. We need more communication, more collaboration, so I can't see how we need less Change Management. What I do see is that Change Management needs to change. I see Change Management mapping really well with Agile. Let's consider for a moment the four primary activities of an Agile Sprint. You have your planning, you have your daily cycles, you have your review, and then you have your retrospective. So, I can see really clearly within the project establishment or high level planning for the Sprint that you need your elevator speech, you need your stakeholder map, and a plan to gain support from those stakeholders. You need your people impact data. You need mitigating actions to address any risks that come out from that data. And then you need to be refining that data to reflect any kind of user stories that you have.

When we're working with clients, particularly during the Sprint execution phase, we see parallel Change Management plans being executed. You have your stakeholder management plan that you're executing. You have your communications plan that you're executing to get the message out there to start to get people energized around a Sprint. You have your training that you're executing, particularly with those local leaders who you need to sponsor the change. And then you have your resistance management, as people get to know more about this Sprint, they have certain feelings which need to be managed. We need those local managers engaged to be able to do that.

During the Sprint review, what we're seeing in our clients who are working with Agile is that the Change Management activities are all about feedback for the next iteration. Are people ready? What about sponsor behaviour? Do we have any kind of assessments that tell us how they are doing to support the change? What do we know about the level of resistance or the level of commitment that we're seeing? And also, in the Sprint retrospective, this is where clients are starting to say to us, "We need to be thinking about how we're going to actually adjust our Change Management activities to be ready for the next Sprint."

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It gives organizations a way to reach more people cost effectively because there's video learning on that platform. It gives organizations a way to embed just in time people analytics to support Agile delivery at the pace that is required. And we have this digital platform, but of course for organizations that are not so digitally mature, they can be supported by workshops and coaching from our experts.",
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