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Dr Michelle Pipes

Greater St. Louis, United States

Keynote Speaker & Fractional Change Executive | The Human Side of High-Stakes Transformation | Creator of Whole Change Management™ | Founder, Joyful Change® | Author

Dr Michelle Pipes Points
Academic 0
Author 83
Influencer 70
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 20
Total 173

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Areas of Expertise

Change Management 33.10
Future of Work 30.02
Leadership 31.51
Management 30.04
Transformation 38.93

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Publications & Experience

2 Article/Blogs
How do you handle change in a highly confidential environment?
Linkedin
April 06, 2026
Carefully. Quietly. And without acting like transparency means blurting out classified details in a town hall.

Because change in places like government, healthcare, law enforcement, legal, compliance-heavy, or security-sensitive environments is a different beast.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Have you heard about the new 5-5-5 Social Blessing Ritual?
Linkedin
February 16, 2026
Not “spray confetti and disappear” generosity. Not “nice post!” copy-paste generosity. I mean real, specific, career-compounding generosity—done with a few clicks and a little courage.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

21 Author Newsletters
Artificial IP: When Your AI Starts to Know Your Professional Secret Sauce
Linkedin
September 29, 2026
You opened an AI account to save twenty minutes on a proposal. A few months later, you have supplied your unpublished ideas, explained your professional philosophy, corrected its interpretation of your work, uploaded half your intellectual life, and instructed it to stop sounding like a motivational poster that recently acquired an MBA.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

The Eyes Have It
Linkedin
September 24, 2026
I Have a New Change Management Diagnostic
I would like to propose a new organizational change diagnostic.

No survey. No dashboard. No 63-slide assessment. Just announce: “We’re excited to introduce another transformation!”

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership

AI Oops. What Do We Do Now?
Linkedin
September 23, 2026
“The AI initiative was not successful—but we already laid off the people who could help us recover. What do we do now?”

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work

You Have Joyful Change. Now What?
Linkedin
September 21, 2026
You found Joyful Change.

Excellent.

Now please resist the organizational urge to immediately form a steering committee, schedule seventeen meetings, build a 94-slide deck, assign six workstreams, and announce that Joy begins Monday.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership

Your Managers Are Not the Organizational Lost-and-Found
Linkedin
September 16, 2026
Stop sending unresolved contradictions downward and expecting managers to transform them into clarity, confidence, and enthusiasm.

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Tags: Change Management, Management

More Joyful Than a Bird With a French Fry
Linkedin
September 11, 2026
Why my slightly ridiculous motto is actually pretty serious business

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership

Your Change Strategy Has an Andi Problem
Linkedin
August 31, 2026
Your implementation plan is color-coded. Your sponsors are aligned. Your readiness dashboard is greener than a lime popsicle.

Meanwhile, Nurse Andi is hiding in the supply closet, wondering whether one wrong click could accidentally order a kidney.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Sometimes Life Hands You a Fresh Cow Patty
Linkedin
August 25, 2026
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you could almost feel it arriving?

Not a passing wish. Not a “Gee, that would be nice.” I mean something you have worked toward for years. Maybe decades.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Different Gardens. Different Gardeners. And Stop Trying To Climb Over Your Neighbor's Fence.
Linkedin
August 24, 2026
Yet professionals do the business equivalent every day. Different methodology? Different technique? Different experience?

Before you start pulling somebody else’s weeds, you might want to ask: “Is this actually my patch to tend?”

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

OCM Folks, I Have Three Letters for You: PCM.
Linkedin
August 17, 2026
Why Personal Change Management may be the most useful addition to your change repertoire since somebody finally admitted the communications plan was not the change strategy.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
Linkedin
August 10, 2026
I was wandering through the NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) website recently—you know, as one does when one enjoys governance documents for recreational reading.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Please Don't Wear Milk Bone Boxer Shorts to Work
Linkedin
July 28, 2026
The world is already a dog-eat-dog place. So why on Earth would you wear Milk Bone boxer shorts?

I made one expensive career mistake. Actually... Twice. I stayed too long hoping bad people would become better people.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

You'll Be You Long After the Battle Between "Me" and "We" Is Over
Linkedin
July 14, 2026
Paychecks stop. Corner offices get reassigned. But you?

You have to live with yourself forever.

Every day, we quietly answer one question.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Every change has two budgets.
Linkedin
July 10, 2026
Every change has two budgets.

One your CFO can see.

One your employees can feel.

Organizations track every dollar they spend.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

The Great Shift: Why the Future Belongs to Human Adaptation, Not Change Management
Linkedin
July 06, 2026
Change management has given us exceptional research, thoughtful methodologies, and practical tools that have improved countless transformations. Frameworks such as Prosci's ADKAR, Kotter's Eight Steps, Bridges' Transition Model, and many others fundamentally changed how organizations approached implementation.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Social Fountains and Drains of Change
Linkedin
June 29, 2026
Those are important questions. But after spending years researching social media through the lens of human adaptation, I think we're asking a smaller question than the moment requires.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Secondhand Change. It's Smoking Us!
Linkedin
May 25, 2026
The breakup someone posted about. The layoff announcement from a stranger. The school controversy. The political panic. The economic warning. The wellness advice. The influencer’s urgent reinvention arc. The “breaking news” that breaks nothing except your nervous system before breakfast.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Are You Team Joy Rails or Team Joy Spirals?
Linkedin
May 18, 2026
Spoiler Alert: I lean more Joy Spirals myself — as if anyone who has met me, heard me speak, or seen my desk would be clutching pearls over that revelation.

Some people want the staircase. Some people want the trampoline. And some of us want a staircase, a trampoline, and five unsanctioned side quests.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Worthy? You are. I am. ALWAYS!
Linkendin
May 11, 2026
I have worked a steady job since I was 14.

Honestly, if we are being fully transparent, it was always more than one.

I was working the day my son was born.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Have you even been invited to a discogram?
Linkedin
April 20, 2026
Do you even know what a discogram is?

Because it sounds like a party theme.

It is not.

It sounds like disco balls, platform shoes, and somebody named Tony yelling, “Hit it!”

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

Women Are Not a Side Note in the Future of Change Leadership
Linkedin
March 23, 2026
Organizations say they want change leaders who can build trust, navigate ambiguity, communicate clearly, develop people, steady teams under pressure, and move complex work forward without leaving emotional debris in every hallway.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

1 Book
Stewarding Joyful Change
Amazon
October 13, 2026
The future doesn't belong to organizations that manage change. It belongs to organizations that steward human adaptation. As AI accelerates, disruption compounds, and change becomes the environment rather than the exception, leaders need more than another change management playbook. They need a new way of thinking. Drawing on decades of practice and hundreds of research sources, Dr. Michelle Pipes introduces Joyful Change(R)-a fresh framework for helping humans adapt without sacrificing trust, performance, or one another.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

1 Founder
Joyful Change
Linkedin
September 18, 2024
Joyful Change helps leaders and organizations deliver change people can adopt, carry, and sustain—without treating humans as the implementation layer.

Created by Dr. Michelle Pipes, Joyful Change is a scientifically grounded, delightfully human approach to leading continuous change with greater coherence, dignity, and joy.

And no, “joyful” does not mean cheerful compliance, motivational confetti, or smiling bravely while the transformation eats your Tuesday. It means intentionally creating the conditions that make change more understandable, workable, and sustainable.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Transformation

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