Change Check-up
One change, one diagnostic.
$750founding price, first 5 clients
- 90-minute working session on video
- Written diagnostic within 3 business days: the Loop map, three risks, three moves for the next 30 days
- 30-day follow-up call
Change stalls in the middle. Almost no one studies it there.
I help leaders find where their change is stuck, using research most consultants never read: an index of 35,000 management journal articles, built to look at the layer everyone else skips.
Each dot is one research abstract: 853 about executives, 68 about middle managers, in 22 management and organization development journals, 2007 to 2018.
853Executives
68Middle managers
where the work happensFront line
Every dot is one paper. The gap narrows a little, and never closes.
Abstracts in 21 core management journals that mention top executives (above the line) or middle managers (below it). Hover or tap a year.
1,267 to 1152007 to 2026, all years
1,267about executives
115about middle managers
11 to 1the ratio across twenty years
The Unfrozen Loop: five things the middle needs for a change to hold.
Each part is sized by how many of 117 middle-manager studies inform it. Pick a part.
Score your own change on the LoopTwo minutes, ten statements.
Evidence map of 117 middle-manager studies, 2007 to 2018, from the Unfrozen Research Index. A study can inform more than one part. Coding is exploratory and AI-assisted, pending human verification.
Find the weak part, then teach your managers to find it themselves.
Team workshop
Running Change from the Middle.
$2,500founding price, half day
- Your managers run the Loop on their own change
- They leave with a review rhythm they own
- Virtual or in person
Who you'd work with
I spent eight years in the U.S. Army, where after-action reviews and commander's intent are how work gets done. I did my doctoral coursework in organization development at Benedictine University, and I write Unfrozen, a newsletter on how change actually moves through organizations.
I built the Unfrozen Research Index because I wanted to know what the research really says about the middle. Mostly, it says very little. That's the gap I work in.
- ServiceU.S. Army, 2008 to 2016, Staff Sergeant
- TrainingDoctoral coursework in organization development, Benedictine University. MBA, Webster University.
- ResearchUnfrozen Research Index: 35,000+ articles, 28 journals, 2007 to 2026
- LanguagesEnglish and Spanish
- Contactgabriel@unfreeze.us