Effective Transformation Environments are critical for accelerating progress.

Stakeholder action is required to achieve results. Stakeholders must be willing to commit to moving the project from the planning stage to the implementation stage. What creates this commitment to act is less dependent on the techniques used or the extent of engagement than on the amount of thought leaders put into developing an environment that catalyzes change.

Studies have shown that the most successful change projects are those where the leaders spearheaded the development of an environment to stimulate initiative and engage committed action from their stakeholder constituents.

Starfield specializes in creating environments that catalyze voluntary initiative from stakeholders.

A carefully crafted environment enables leaders to replace skepticism with support, to eliminate many of the traditional impediments to change, and to optimize or generate scarce resources at critical junctures. Creating this environment is about developing a dynamic tension within the community that is required to deliver the desired results. When people are comfortable working within known and predictable environments, their responses tend to be known and predictable.

When a leader creates productive tension within an environment, innovation thrives and breakthroughs occur naturally. Creating this environment for change negates the need to "sell" stakeholders on the need for change, which is a traditional change management tactic. Instead, change takes hold by creating an environment where stakeholders determine for themselves that change is beneficial. A natural by-product is the enthusiasm, commitment and ownership required for long term success.