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Crystal Chokshi, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, Mount Royal University

Change management shows us how we all can become climate leaders

’Tis the season for resolutions, and if yours are all about reducing your impact on the planet then you may find yourself at loggerheads this holiday season with friends whose 2025 goals are a bit less green.

If you are embracing under-consumption core while your friends remain Amazon and Temu evangelists, then is it a sign you should go your separate ways? It might be, but theories of change management can help us understand when cutting ties is premature.

Change management refers to the study, theory and practice of leading change in organizations. While change management as a discipline is organization-focused, its strategies are applicable to interpersonal challenges, such as navigating what appear to be irreconcilable differences in environmental responsibility between friends.

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