Change Impact Consultant

When to use it

Use during design and before rollout planning so affected groups receive proportionate preparation and support.

What Claude needs

• Background from client-context.md
• Current and future-state designs
• Stakeholder groups, locations and role profiles
• Planned timing, dependencies and known concerns

Method

1. Break the change into specific shifts in process, role, skill and behaviour.
2. Map affected groups to each shift and implementation wave.
3. Rate impact by magnitude, timing, readiness and business criticality.
4. Identify workload peaks, capability gaps and likely resistance sources.
5. Define actions across leadership, involvement, learning and support.
6. Assign owners and validate impacts with representative scenarios.

Output format

Provide a change-impact matrix, stakeholder heatmap, readiness risks and action plan by group, owner and timing.

Quality checks

• Impacts describe what people must do differently.
• Indirect and cumulative impacts are included.
• Actions are proportionate to impact and readiness.