Innovative Edge · Built where change actually lands

Change first.
Technology second.

The change plan builder for leaders landing real change. Describe the initiative the way you would say it out loud. Get a defensible plan through five moves, with artifacts your sponsor will actually read, exported to Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Ten questions. Two minutes. No credit card.

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1What you type
Describe the initiative
Clinical documentation is moving to one shared record across all four sites. Around 1,400 staff, eleven inpatient units, three unions, and a go-live date the executive already announced.
Health system wide4 sites1,400 staff3 unions12 weeks out

Nothing here is a stock template. Every artifact is built from the words you typed, then you edit it.

01 · Ground it
02 · Map the people
03 · Read readiness and resistance
04 · Prepare the people
05 · Hold the gains
2What comes back
Stakeholder mapMove 2
Keep satisfiedMedical staff assoc.
Manage closelyExec sponsor · COOUnion locals (3)
MonitorInformatics
Keep informedUnit managers (11)Educator team
Readiness readMove 3
Exec sponsorship2.5
Manager bandwidth1.0
Change fatigue, Site B0.8
Educator coverage2.0
Communication planMove 4
W-4W-3W-2W-1GoW+1Site leadershipUnit managersUnion locals
5moves, in the same order, every time
7original files in the founding toolkit
Word · PPT · Excelexports your PMO can edit
Canadawhere your data is stored
The situation

A rollout just landed on your desk.

The technology is chosen.The go-live date is set.The people who have to make it work on a Tuesday night shift are not ready, and nobody asked them.

Most change plans start with the tool and end with a training schedule. Change First Studio starts with the people, because in healthcare the gap between a plan and a ward is where harm happens.

Good change management is a patient safety issue, not an afterthought.

The premise the whole product is built on
How it works

The five moves

A unit change and a health-system transformation run through the same five moves, in the same order. Each one produces real artifacts you can hand to a sponsor, not a wall of generated text.

01 · Ground it

Move 1 of 5

Why this, why now, what exactly changes, who sponsors it, what success looks like.

What changesOne shared clinical record replaces four site systems, for every inpatient team
Who sponsorsChief Operating Officer, named, visible at every site
Success looks likeNo site slips its date, no medication near-miss attributable to the switch, and overtime back to baseline by week four
PRODUCES
Initiative briefCase for changeSponsor readiness notesSuccess measures
Informed by established change-management practice, not any single certification or framework. Nothing here is copied from anyone else's materials; every item is original. Every item here is original, and comes from initiatives run on real units.
What you get

A complete plan, not a slide.

Structured artifacts

Tables, grids and lists you can edit in place or regenerate one section at a time. Not paragraphs to untangle at 11pm.

Exports that fit your work

Word, PowerPoint and Excel, ready for your sponsor or your project office's templates. Not a PDF nobody can change.

Built for healthcare

Union consultation timelines, shift-based communication, educators as the enablement backbone, patient safety framing. Baked in, not bolted on.

Your data is stored in Canada

Encrypted, exportable, deletable by you. No patient information goes in. Stakeholder names are optional; roles are the default.

Founding member offer
CAD 129for the founding year · about USD 99

Renews at USD 99 a year, locked for as long as you stay a member. The founding toolkit ships the moment you join, months before the app launches, so you are not paying for a promise with nothing behind it.

Seven original files, delivered on purchase
First access to the app, and to the team tier after launch
Your price locked at the founding rate, permanently
Offer closes October 31, 2026
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Take the readiness scorecard

Enrollment opens before the Canadian Wellness and Health Leadership Conference in October. Take the free scorecard now and you are notified the moment it opens, at the founding price. If Change First Studio is not live by November 30, 2026, every founding member is refunded in full, no questions asked.

Built by practitioners

Change First Studio comes from Innovative Edge Consulting: healthcare operations leaders with twenty-five years in healthcare and EMS, fifteen of them in leadership, running real change initiatives on real hospital units.

The five moves come from initiatives actually run, with real resistance. Not a framework read about in a course.

Frequently asked

Straight answers.

Informed by established change-management practice, not any single certification or framework. Nothing here is copied from anyone else's materials; every item is original. The five moves come from initiatives run inside a hospital, not from a certification course.

No, and the product actively tells you not to enter it. Names of individual stakeholders are optional everywhere. Roles are the default.

Stored in Canada, encrypted in transit and at rest. You can export everything you have entered, or delete it, yourself, without asking anyone.

The founding member toolkit: seven original healthcare-flavoured files, including the change plan template, stakeholder register, sponsor briefing and readiness worksheets, delivered the moment you join. The app follows.

The founding offer is a single seat. A team tier is planned after launch, and founding members get first access to it at their locked rate.

It will draft one, structured the way a defensible plan is structured, from what you tell it. You edit it. The judgement stays yours, which is the only way it survives a sponsor asking a hard question.