If you’re facing unwanted change in your life, you might be surprised to find that you already have many of the skills you need. This interactive, real-life story will help you re-purpose change-management tools and apply them to your own life challenges, allowing you to ninja your life and get the best possible outcome.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Forward again!
• Preface
• 1. Taking back control
• 2. Why it stings when life throws you lemons.
• 3. Climbing the stairs to make lemonade
• 4. Emergency help
• 5. Characters
• 6. A call to action
• 7. Dream a little dream.
• 8. Into the abyss
  • Life ninja move 1
• 9. Between a rock and a hard place
  • Life ninja move 2
• 10. Plans that stick.
  • Life ninja move 3
• 11. Decisions, decisions
  • Life ninja move 4
• 12. Magic box of tricks
  • Life ninja move 5
• 13. The fog begins to lift.
  • Life ninja move 6
• 14. Endings and beginnings.
  • Life ninja move 7
• 15. A Tinderella story
  • Life ninja move 8
• 16. Sami’s fables
  • Life ninja move 9
• 17. Once upon a time
  • Life ninja move 10
• 18. Ninjaing Christmas
  • Life ninja move 11
• 19. Making lemonade
• 20. Over to you
  • Life ninja move 12
• 21. Twelve rules for ninjaing life
• References
• Want to know more?
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Following an unexpected and unwanted personal upheaval, Dr Tammy Watchorn, the original Change Ninja, became her own real-life case study.

She decided to test just how effective the change management and neuroscience tools she’d been using professionally might be outside the workplace, when the stakes were high, the emotions raw and a wrong decision could end in disaster.

Building on The Change Ninja Handbook’s gamified approach, Tammy’s story unfolds in parallel to you gaining fresh insights with practical tools that will equip you to navigate your own life’s challenges, from managing your emotions to making the right decision when you’ve no idea what to do next.

If you’re facing unwanted change in your life, you might be surprised to find that you already have many of the resources and skills you need, and this story and toolkit will ensure you can easily access them when needed.

Discover how to Ninja your life!

“I love this book. It’s practical, accessible, and full of humour.” - Jenny Landreth, Writer and script editor

"Read this book to find your own recipe and awaken your hidden ‘doer’.” - Margo Waldorf, Founder at Change Awards

Dr Tammy Watchorn’s experiences of leading transformational change in complex highly resistant environments led to The Change Ninja Handbook. She now focuses on writing, training, facilitating and coaching at all levels within and across organizations with a strong focus on change management, neuroscience, behaviours and resistance to change, effective delivery and productivity.

I love this book. It’s practical, accessible, and full of humour. So many innovative ways of addressing the problems life throws at you, I’ll definitely be reaching for it next time I get stuck. Jenny Landreth – Writer and script editor of all sorts of things, from episodic radio pieces and kids’ TV animation to newspaper articles, reviews, and books

In this refreshingly jovial and light-hearted book about change, Tammy shares her own story of how she overcame a major personal challenge by using a suite of well-known change tools. These are tried and tested tools that are easy to apply and that can work wonders. If you’re faced with a challenging situation in your personal life that you would like to change, look no further. Tammy’s book is a great inspiration that will show how to do it. Susanne Madsen – Author of The Power of Project Leadership and How to do the Inner Work

We have all been there: the life that had suddenly crashed, 3am panic wakeups, emotional turmoil, self-doubt, and seemingly no choices.

Tammy lets the reader into her home and psyche with the most actionable guide to change I have ever read. As all humans act irrationally, especially when exposed to adversity, we need a recipe for a way out when we feel stuck. Read this book to find your own recipe and awaken your
hidden ‘doer’. Margo Waldorf – Founder at Change Awards

So much of this book resonates. It’s a personal story and I was invested in the triumph of the heroine over adversity – yet it’s not a tale of yore, battling against all odds, instead it’s a practical and pragmatic approach and set of resources we can all use to deal with change. And that’s why I loved it. It’s to use when and however it is needed and I will be coming back to it time and time again. Ian Clarkson – Director of Portfolio Management, QA Ltd

I was lucky to be invited to the Change Ninja Way retreat that accompanies this book. I realized within one of the first exercises Tam led, that I was holding on to an outdated narrative. I was projecting an experience of the past on to the present and it was inhibiting me from taking a necessary leap. Tam’s supportive provocation, knowledge of how the brain works and the environment she created helped me to shift my perspective over the course of the weekend. If you want to release fears that’s exactly what Tam’s retreat (and book) is about. Alex Barker – Co-author of Be More Pirate

Change is good they say... Close a door, a window opens. I know ‘I should but...’ Sometimes it doesn’t feel good and we don’t know where to start so how do I change ‘Should’ to ‘Would’?

This book is not just an ordinary way to work through a change, personal transformation, or any day challenges in your life. Rather it’s an EXTRAORDINARY way to support yourself!

This time it’s personal, change ninjaing is a fantastic resource, manages all the above, creatively, skilfully, successfully. Sam Brandes – Global Wellbeing Lead, Novartis

A story with purpose, humour, authenticity, and humanity that builds trust due to the author’s vulnerability; tools that invite us, the reader, to dare to apply them to our own life situations encouraging us to be better at creating our own path. I was able to change my own neurobiology as I read it. This is a manual for being a human being. Cath Cooney – Coach and Consultant

A poignant and personal journey that draws on the strength and resilience of the author in using change management skills, tools, and techniques to overcome personal challenges. Most of us do not have that strength and resilience, but we do now have access to the tools and techniques that she used to help us get through our own personal change to arrive at a happy ending. Jooli Atkins – Digital Partnering NHS England

The world needs a new dynamic by which to engage, collaborate, innovate, and improve, we need to learn to adapt to more subtle and positive ways of engaging people in change, approaching change with more compassion and subtlety for healthier outcomes. This is what is at the heart of becoming a Change Ninja, and building on the awareness and insights from the first book, you can take away positive tools and methods to nimbly work around the challenges. Tammy’s book is a whole new dimension on dealing with people change and is leading the way in a space that is much in demand. Be the change and lead the way for yourself and others by joining the Change Ninja community! Jo Stanford – CEO Healthcare Project and Change Association and Change Ninja!

Tammy’s holistic approach to storytelling which guides you through the art of enacting change that makes a difference, has evolved, and informed my own ninja like practice. Her tools and top tips have enabled me to be brave, give things a go, and build in precious time to stop, reflect, and step forward with purpose and clarity for myself, my team, my organization, and my family. Marie Hernandez – People Practitioner and Working Mum

In The Change Ninja Returns, Tammy masterfully intertwines her personal story with potent tools from the Change Ninja methodology, creating a transformative journey that resonated deeply with me. I was, quite literally, on the edge of my seat. With vulnerability and authenticity, Tammy invites us all to navigate the labyrinth of change, equipping us with incredibly useful practical strategies to tackle real-life situations head-on. I bloody loved it. Michelle Minnikin, Captain of Culture at Work Pirates and author of Good Girl Deprogramming