Dr Elissa Farrow

Dr Elissa Farrow is a founder and lead consultant for About Your Transition and has extensive experience in strategic organisational adaptation design, facilitation and delivery. Elissa has supported organisations to define positive futures and then successfully transform to bring lasting benefits. She has proven adaptive capacity and can successfully transfer her skills to different contexts. In 2022, Elissa was awarded her doctorate through the University of the Sunshine Coast. Her published research explores organisations of the future and how they will need to adapt to the evolving field of artificial intelligence. Elissa is an experienced board director and thought leader in her field, having won a number of awards for her research and for her contributions to Women in Project Management.

Change leaders need information and empathy

Leaders need access to information and a degree of empathy from their peers and senior leadership to successfully fulfil their duties as change leaders, writes Elissa Farrow. Here’s how to support them.

March 7, 2016

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How to support change leaders

Elissa Farrow offers some practical strategies for leaders and change managers to ensure that those key to the change are suitably supported and focused on achieving the benefits required.

February 22, 2016

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Project success lies in supported leaders

Senior leaders are often taken for granted and expected to be more resilient than lower level managers and staff, without the same support mechanisms. Elissa Farrow believes this affects project success.

February 8, 2016

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Communicating ethical practice

With any organisational change, including embedding business ethics, we need to ensure we communicate the right message appropriately to our team members. Elissa Farrow explains how.

September 8, 2015

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Change management and embedding ethics

Like any culture change process we need to understand roles and responsibilities, who should ‘own’ the business ethics process and who should communicate the agreed processes. Elissa Farrow on using change tactics to embed ethics.

August 25, 2015

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Ethics drives project practice

Elissa Farrow observes recent examples of organisations not operating ethically, and follows a passion through the International Institute of Project Coaching, where ethics drives practice.

August 12, 2015

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Dealing with resistance in your project

Change expert Elissa Farrow is often asked by leaders, and other change consultants, about strategies for dealing with resistance on a project or in an organisation. Here are some of her suggestions.

July 27, 2015

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Mind the change gap

Organisations are often in the situation where their desire for change outweighs their capacity for change and therefore there is an uncomfortable gap where project failure lurks. Elissa Farrow suggests bridging this gap with capacity training.

January 13, 2015

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