The bench

Open Change

Maya Okonjo

Change Director

Fifteen years landing changes other people designed badly.

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The short version

Maya runs the hardest end of transformation: the part where leadership has to agree in public. She has taken two FTSE integrations from signature to single culture.

Best for

MergersLeadership alignmentCulture change

Skills

  • Transformation
  • Culture
  • Leadership alignment
  • Change management

Industries

Financial services · Retail

Pathways

Open > ChangeOpen > Explore

Work Maya ran

Northbank/Financial services/2025

Two banks, 11,000 people, one culture in nine months

92%
Leaders aligned
-38%
Regretted attrition
36
Weeks to one rhythm
What changed
Meridian Retail/Retail/2025

1,200 store managers, one day, one message that stuck

78%
Recall at 90 days
+61
Manager NPS
9
Slides used
What changed

Work with them for less

Products they built or run. Cheaper than a day rate, same thinking.

Diagnostic
£2,400

Adoption Diagnostic

Find out why your rollout stalled. In eight days.

8 days · remote
Playbook
£290

The Merger Playbook

The first 100 days of an integration, written down.

Digital · instant
Workshop
£6,800

Leadership Rhythm Workshop

Give your top 40 one way of running the week.

2 days · on site

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