Not because we don’t know where we’re going,
but because we’re afraid of losing what we already have?

“Too many organizations try to force change — and fail.
Others stay stuck, afraid of losing everything.”

And in both cases, one tension remains:

How not to panic?
How not to stay stuck?

Try it for yourself:

Can you remember a time when a major transformation went smoothly…
—in your organization?
—in your life?
—in your team, club, or community?
—in society at large?

Not that often, is it?

Change management doesn’t work.

In twenty years of agile, digital and managerial transformations…
I’ve seen entire collectives lose their bearings, their bonds, sometimes even disappear.

Not from lack of will —
but from the absence of a shared, stabilizing frame to navigate disruption
without losing themselves or betraying what matters.

That’s when I began looking for another path.

Because we are human:

“What paralyzes or agitates us is not the unknown —
it’s the fear of losing what gives us strength”

Our identity.
Our bonds.
Our purpose.
Sometimes even our dignity.

And as long as we don’t name what is essential,
as long as we don’t clarify what we truly want to preserve…

… we either change blindly,
or we don’t change at all.

SteadyChange:
Change without weakening,
evolve without getting lost.

SteadyChange offers a clear approach that can be applied across a wide range of contexts
to support deep transformations — agile, digital, cultural, or societal —
without sacrificing what gives the organization its strength and humanity.

The 5 guiding compasses of SteadyChange:

✅ Define together the Invariants we want to preserve
✅ Translate them into simple, visible Watchpoints
✅ Leadership that embodies them, keeps them alive, and frees initiative
✅ Act and learn from the field with discernment
✅ Regulate at the right pace what must evolve — and what must remain

Who is it for?

SteadyChange is for you if:

You lead or support transformations — as a leader, change agent, coach, agile coach…
And you feel your teams fluctuating between burnout, stagnation, or confusion.

What SteadyChange is not:

Not another method that asks you to abandon your current practices.
Not a miracle solution.

✅ It’s a simple, compatible compass,
designed to help sustain what matters most, even in the midst of change.

By adopting or adapting this approach, you actively contribute to strengthening it and keeping it alive, in alignment with its original intent:

To facilitate change without sacrificing what makes us human.

I warmly invite you to join this journey with integrity and enthusiasm, to preserve its meaning and respect its original intention, so that together we can evolve sustainably, without ever losing sight of what truly matters.

Patrice Fornalik

Created on 05- 23-2025

License:

The compasses and principles of SteadyChange are released under the Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND).

You are free to share them and use them as-is, including internally within your organizations, provided that:

you explicitly credit the author and the source of the approach;
you do not use them for commercial purposes without prior agreement;
you do not modify them (no derivative, reworked, or rewritten versions).

If you wish to translate, adapt, or integrate all or part of SteadyChange into a medium, a training program, a product, or any commercial initiative, please go through the “contact” page on the website: together, we will determine the form that best respects the intent and the framework.

Ready to explore?

→ Discover our guiding compasses
→ Explore our key principles
→ See case studies in action

Or simply…

Start by identifying what you refuse to lose.
That’s often where meaningful change begins.

Not because we don’t know where we’re going,but because we’re afraid of losing what we already have?