The Change Navigation Newsletter
Practical, people-centered insight on leading through change.
Once a month, Adrian Pei shares one honest read on what leaders actually wrestle with—resistance, feedback, culture, and the sometimes messy realities of change.
Every issue includes a free article PDF you can keep, print, or hand to your team.
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Why Subscribe?
Most leadership advice is either too abstract to use or too tactical to matter. Change work lives in between—in the conversations, the resistance, and the quiet moments where people decide whether to come along.
Adrian has spent two decades helping nonprofits, Fortune 500s, and educational institutions navigate exactly that. This newsletter is where he thinks out loud about it—often starting with something he’s working through himself.
It reads like a letter from someone who does this work, not a company that sells it. And it always ends with an open invitation to write back.
Every issue helps you:
- Lead people, not just projects, through change
- Have the conversations you’ve been avoiding
- Spot what’s really stalling your team
- Stay grounded when everything is in motion
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What’s Inside Every Issue
Four themes come up again and again—because they’re where change actually gets won or lost:
Frameworks You Can Use Monday
Simple tools—like the PRO© model—that turn big change into next steps.
Feedback & Hard Conversations
Language and perspective for the conversations most leaders avoid.
Culture & Organizational Change
What actually moves a team, and why most change efforts stall.
Personal Growth & Resilience
Honest reflection on leading yourself well through uncertainty.
(And every issue comes with a free article PDF—yours to keep, print, or share with your team.)
Recent Issues
Here’s a sample of what lands in your inbox. Every past issue is free to read.
How to Spot Dogma in Organizations & People
Why A.I. Will Make Us More Human (Not Less)
How Change Actually Happens in Organizations
(Plus reader questions, book recommendations, and the occasional field note from a client session.)
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Every new subscriber is entered to win a copy of one of Adrian’s books, such as the critically-acclaimed The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities (2018) or The Art of Growing Through Feedback (2025)—Adrian’s most popular and most downloaded resource.
Inside "The Art of Growing Through Feedback":
- How to deliver feedback so that people will listen
- How to respond to feedback without getting defensive
- How your past experiences with feedback have shaped you
- What feedback looks like across different cultures
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Who Writes It
Adrian Pei is a leadership author, trainer, and speaker, and the creator of the Change Navigation PRO© framework. He has led training and coaching for nonprofits, Fortune 500 companies, and educational institutions worldwide.
He is the author of The Art of Growing Through Feedback and The Minority Experience.
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- Two decades of organizational change work
- Author of two books on leadership and feedback
- Trusted by nonprofits, Fortune 500s, and universities
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