The Path to Unstuckifyed
move your organization from stuck to unstoppable
Stuck to Unstuckifyed to Unstoppable
Drawing on 12 years of research in organizational science, behavioral science, and design thinking, Dr Dani works with leaders through four phases that move your organization from stuck to unstoppable
Recognize the Storm
Your leadership team gains an understanding of what's keeping you stuck and the three forces at play. You align on the problem to solve and agree on how to move forward.
Diagnose the Stuck Points
We go cross-functional and gather data from the people doing the work. You move from assumptions to insights, gaining clarity that distinguishes between real problems and symptoms.
Execute the Moves
We orchestrate the moves for your context to address your stuck points. You create momentum on issues that have been stuck, build proof points, and show that a different way of working is possible.
Sustain the Momentum
The Moves become a way of working. We embed the new practices into decisions, priorities, capabilities, mindsets, and rhythms so Unstuckifyed survives beyond the engagement.
When you are inside the system, it is hard to see what's happening within it. The Executive Day gives your leadership team the space, language, and structure to step back, name what is really going on, and see the patterns holding progress back.
What happens:
Dr Dani guides the executive team through a practical mapping session. Together, you surface the visible stuck points, the friction underneath them, and the places where deeper diagnosis may be needed.
Your leadership team gains an understanding of what's keeping you stuck and the three forces at play. You align on the problem to solve and agree on how to move forward.
This is the day the team stops circling the symptoms and starts seeing the system.
What you get:
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A shared language for what is happening.
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A clearer view of where the organization may be stuck.
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Stronger alignment around the real challenge.
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A high-level map of friction points.
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A clear view of the best next move.
Once leaders understand the stuckness, the temptation is to jump straight into action. That is where organizations often get stuck all over again. They fix the loudest symptom, launch another initiative, and form another working group. Everyone gets busy. Nothing really changes.
The Stuck Points Diagnostic slows the reflex down just long enough to make sure you are solving the right thing.
What happens:
We go cross-functional and gather real data from the people doing the work, so you move from assumptions to clarity. You discover where stuckness actually lives and distinguish between real problems and symptoms.
What you get:
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A diagnostic report clearly maps the main stuck points.
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Evidence of where effort is being wasted.
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Prioritized recommendations of where to get started.
Once your organization can see where the stuckness lives, the next risk is building another over-engineered plan that looks impressive and fails in practice. Instead, we move quickly to build momentum.
What happens:
We co-design the vision and outcomes you want to achieve. Then we orchestrate a series of moves to quickly build momentum that delivers results.
What you get:
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Actions based on organizational data and insights.
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The first small step to start building momentum.
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Early proof points of progress.
Getting unstuck once is not the hard part. The harder work is sustaining momentum when old habits, decisions, and pressures start creeping back in.
Sustained momentum happens when the Unstuckifyed mindset and capabilities become the way of working.
What happens:
Together, you review where momentum is building, where it is slipping, and where the organization may be defaulting to old patterns. Dr Dani helps the team pressure-test decisions, cut through performative work, stay honest about what is actually shifting, and redirect behaviors to keep building momentum.
What you get:
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Accountability to stay committed.
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Early visibility of where stuckness might be returning.
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Embedding Unstuckifyed mindsets and capabilities.
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Sustained momentum beyond the initial engagement.
Unstuckifyed Applied
Unstuckifyed is an evidence-based approach that can be applied across multiple organizational challenges. Every organization gets stuck differently. Here is what Unstuckifyed looks like applied to three challenges organizations are facing today.
AI Adoption Unstuckifyed
89%
Of organizations that have invested in AI report no measurable impact on productivity.
AI adoption is the problem every leadership team is being asked to solve.
The lack of adoption is a Stuckifyed problem. The stuckness arises from unclear outcomes, competing priorities, anxiety about risk, and trying to force new tools into outdated processes.
More tools, more mandates, more pilots lead to more frantic motions without meaningful progress.
Unstuckifyed helps leaders drive AI adoption by
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Recognizing the invisible forces stalling AI adoption
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Diagnosing exactly where the stuckness lives
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Orchestrating the moves to start building momentum
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Sustaining the momentum that drives results
Unstuckifyed helps you reimagine how work gets done and build an unstoppable organization that thrives in the AI world.
Sound Familiar?
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Money is being spent on AI but not seeing value.
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Teams are nervous or resistant.
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Pilots don't lead to a coherent direction.
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Board pressure to see outcomes driven by AI is rising.
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Know AI matters but struggling to figure out where to start.
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Tools are being adopted, but nothing is really changing.
Transformation Unstuckifyed
88%
That's how many transformations fail to deliver.
New structure. New strategy. New operating model. New technology.
Yet, the same patterns and the same results. Nothing changes.
A failed transformation is a Stuckifyed problem. The stuckness arises from changing the visible machinery while the deeper patterns stay untouched: how decisions actually get made, what leaders reward, where people feel unsafe, and what the organization defends.
Unstuckifyed helps leaders make transformation land by
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Recognizing the invisible forces pulling the organization back to old ways of working
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Diagnosing exactly where the stuckness lives
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Orchestrating the Moves that build momentum
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Sustaining the momentum that drives results
Transformation does not fail because change is impossible. It stalls when the conditions that sustain it are missing. Unstuckifyed helps you build those conditions and make the change hold.
Sound familiar?
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Change fatigue.
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Restructure is a way of life.
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Strategy that fails to translate into action.
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Operating model changes that don't change behavior.
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Leaders who align in the room but are fragmented in execution.
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Programs that start strong and quickly lose momentum.
Productivity Unstuckifyed
30%
That's how much productive capacity organizations lose to stuckness.
Stuckifyed is a tricky problem to solve because it looks like work. Calendars are full. Meetings are happening. Everyone is busy. It hides in plain sight. We've glorified the busyness and normalized the lack of results.
Unstuckifyed helps leaders convert effort into momentum by
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Recognizing the invisible forces draining productive capacity
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Diagnosing exactly where the stuckness lives
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Orchestrating the Moves that build momentum
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Sustaining the momentum that drives results
The capacity is already in your organization. Unstuckifyed helps you reclaim it and build an organization where effort produces results.
What's Stuckifyed Costing You?
Sound familiar?
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Calendars full and meeting overload.
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Slow or unclear decisions.
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Duplicated work.
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Rework and miscommunication.
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Too many priorities
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Teams feeling stretched but not effective.
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Leaders see their teams exhausted and no results to show for it.
What Leaders are Saying
If your team needs to problem-solve and get to a sustainable solution in a way that brings people together and enhances ownership, I encourage you wholeheartedly to get in touch with Dani.
Dani’s approach is practical, people-focused, collaborative and draws on your business’ own data and evidence. Clever, calm and curious, she will leave your team confident to back the solution with stakeholders from the end user through to the senior leadership table.
Melissa Thompson
OD Manager
Stats NZ
From our first session, I felt confident enough to start using it. Learning by doing it in my own work has been incredibly helpful, as I don't have the extra step of figuring out how to apply it. Dani's expertise and guidance have been invaluable in this journey.
Thank you, Dani, for making this learning experience so impactful, not only for my own development and learning, but also for my organisation.
Kate Shirley
Head of People & Culture
Fonterra
One of the biggest challenges with implementing solutions is a lack of buy-in from stakeholders and general loss of energy for seeing projects through.
Dani worked quickly to establish a cross-functional working group and facilitated a process that enabled the team to develop a solution to meet their needs. Because she works ‘with’ and takes you along the journey, the team gained a great sense of empowerment and knowledge that will set them up for future successes in problem solving. She is a pleasure to work with.
Francey Loughnan
Senior Manager, People Experience
Stats NZ
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