EP 147 Dr Grant Van Ulbrich: Change Breaks You. Transformation Builds You.
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Bio:
Dr Grant Van Ulbrich is an internationally recognised pioneer in Personal Change Management and the founder of Scared So What®, the world’s first personal change model, methodology, and app. His work empowers individuals and organisations to embrace transformation through leadership development, executive coaching, and scalable technology.
A Forbes, Wall Street, Entrepreneur-featured thought leader and TEDx speaker with just over 2M views, Grant’s career spans over two decades in global leadership roles within the cruise and hospitality industry before dedicating his research and practice to sales transformation and change leadership. He is the first person worldwide to be awarded both an MSc in Leading Sales Transformation and a Doctorate in Sales Transformation, achieved through the Consalia Sales Business School and Middlesex University.
Grant is a Fellow of Personal Change Management at the Integrity Centre, a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Sales Professionals, a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning (ITOL), and a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University School of Management. His award winning publications, including Transforming Sales Management: Lead Sales Teams Through Change (Kogan Page, 2023), and peer-reviewed articles in The Oxford Review and Change Management Review, are widely referenced in the field.
Through his leadership at Scared So What Ltd, Grant continues to advance the practice of Personal Change Management, helping leaders, teams, and organisations transform with integrity and purpose.
Podcast Summary
🎙️ Podcast Summary: “Change Breaks You. Transformation Builds You.”
In this deeply moving and inspiring episode of The Security Circle, Yolanda Hamblen sits down with Dr. Grant Van Ulbrich — a man who has turned adversity into action, fear into fuel, and personal change into a global framework for transformation.
From growing up in conservative Kansas and serving in the U.S. Navy, to finding himself homeless — not once, but twice — Grant’s story is one of extraordinary resilience and reinvention. He shares how every setback became a stepping stone, leading him to a 25-year career at sea and ultimately to founding SCARED So What, a model for managing personal and organizational change.
Grant and Yolanda explore what it truly means to transform rather than just change, the power of vulnerability in leadership, and why transactional leaders fail while transformational leaders thrive. Together, they challenge listeners to rethink resilience, embrace uncertainty, and find courage in their own chapters of transformation.
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