Why change programs fail before they launch - The human cost of not knowing

Date: Wednesday, 2 September 2026
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM AEST
Location: Online (MS Teams)

When a change launch is poorly timed, it isn’t the project process that absorbs the impact, it is your people. The resulting burnout, disengagement, and trust erosion are costs organisations simply cannot afford.

Join Rhythm Engine™ Founder, Jasmine O’Reilly, and Head of Product Development, Nick McPhee, for an online demo exploring how to diagnose and address transformation risk before going live.

What we will explore:

  • The human cost of poor timing: How badly timed implementations directly drive employee burnout, disengagement, and quiet attrition.
  • Moving beyond ‘gut feel’: Addressing the frustration shared by HR and change leaders for over 15 years, knowing something is off with a project, but having no hard data to prove it.
  • Direct insight vs reactive damage control: What change readiness looks like when measured through your people’s real-time responses, rather than trying to ‘read the room’ after the damage is done.
  • Under the hood of Rhythm Engine™: A live walkthrough of the change readiness diagnostic tool and its key analytical features.
  • Live Q&A: An opportunity to ask specific questions directly to the product team.

Secure your spot to discover how real-time diagnostic data can safeguard your workforce bandwidth and strengthen your next implementation.

Meet Your Presenters

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Jasmine O'Reilly

Founder

Jasmine started this because she was tired of watching good organisations make expensive decisions based on incomplete information.

She has spent her career embedded in change. Not on the periphery, advising from a safe distance, but in the operational heart of organisations, working directly with executive sponsors, frontline managers, and the teams caught in the middle. She has led programs across healthcare, utilities, financial services, and the public sector, in environments where the stakes were real and the margin for error was low.

Her focus has always been the human side of change: what actually determines whether people adopt something new, or quietly revert to what they knew. Motivation, competence, psychological safety. These are not soft concepts to Jasmine. They are measurable conditions. And the adoption readiness instrument inside Rhythm Engine™ is built on exactly that belief.

She built Rhythm Engine™ because she wanted every change leader to have access to the same clarity she had spent years learning to create the hard way.

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Nick McPhee

Head of Product Development

Nick brings the workforce and people strategy depth that makes Rhythm Engine™ more than a survey platform.

His background spans strategic HR leadership, workforce design, cultural change, and leadership capability development across financial services, utilities, education, and transport. He has spent his career asking one question in different contexts: are the actual conditions in place for people to do their best work? Not the stated conditions. Not the intentions. The reality.

The manager load instrument is Nick’s contribution to Rhythm Engine™. It exists because he has seen first-hand what happens when the people responsible for carrying change through an organisation are already at capacity. They do not drive adoption. They transmit pressure. The change becomes one more thing piled on top of everything else. And it shows up in the data weeks before it shows up in a project status report.

Nick’s role in building Rhythm Engine™ was to make sure the platform asks the right questions about people, not just the convenient ones.