Overview:
Most organizations approach transformation with the same playbook — change readiness. Yet despite decades of effort, change initiatives still fail at alarming rates, now estimated as high as 88% (Bain & Co.). 

Why? Because strategy isn’t the problem. Exhaustion, burnout, and systemic brittleness are. In today’s world of digital disruption, AI, shifting regulations, and constant turbulence, organizations need change fitness — the capacity to adapt continuously while sustaining performance.

Key Themes:

• Why readiness fails in a BANI world

• The ROI impact of burnout and cognitive overload

• Adaptive vs technical challenges in organizational transformation

• Leadership, culture, systems, and partnerships as levers of fitness

• How to measure and strengthen your organization’s change capability

Key Takeaways:

• Readiness is episodic; fitness is continuous
• Burnout, not a bad strategy, drives failure
• Leaders must create adaptive capacity, not just compliance
• Culture and systems multiply resilience
• Partnerships accelerate capability building