Turn strategy and change into behaviour that sticks
Napica helps leaders make change land, from Australia and Asia-Pacific to Europe and the Middle East. Our training programs build the skills to lead, decide and persuade. Our change projects make sure the new strategy, merger or culture shows up in what people actually do.
Trusted by Arla Foods Ingredients, CitiPower and Powercor, Saudi Water Authority, Aarhus University and Ørsted
Most change doesn't fail in the plan. It fails in the conversation.
A new strategy gets launched at a town hall. A merger gets announced by email. Then everyone goes back to work, and very little changes. People don't resist change because they're stubborn. They resist it because nobody has explained why, what it means for them, or what to do differently on Monday.
That gap between the plan and everyday behaviour is where we work.
Start with a program. Grow into a project.
Training programs
Practical, research-based programs for leaders and teams, built around your own cases. Half-day workshops through to multi-module leadership programs.
- Leading new thinking and practical problem solving
- Leading and communicating change
- Presenting with power
- Getting a yes: proposals and decision papers
- Storytelling for leaders
Our flagship program can include a Monash University Digital Badge.
Change projects
We work alongside your leaders and HR or change team to plan and deliver the communication and behaviour change behind a big decision.
- Strategy implementation
- Mergers, acquisitions and integration
- Culture, purpose and values
- Psychosocial safety and wellbeing
Associates of Monash University's Enterprise Education
Napica designs and delivers executive programs as an associate of Monash University's Enterprise Education, for organisations such as CitiPower and Powercor, and Saudi Water Authority.
Participants who complete Leading new thinking and practical problem solving can earn a Monash University Digital Badge when the program is delivered with Monash: a verifiable credential they can share on LinkedIn.
Learn about the program →A proven model for change that people actually follow
Every project and program we run is built on Napica's change flow model. Six steps, grounded in research on decision making, persuasion and habit:
- 1Unfreeze
Communicate the why.
- 2Communicate the change
Shape attitudes and launch well.
- 3Simplify and integrate
Cut the noise and avoid decision fatigue.
- 4Turn micro actions into habits
Make the new behaviour easy.
- 5Share success stories
Keep motivation up.
- 6Celebrate and refreeze
Make it the new normal.
Recent work
CitiPower and Powercor
A ten-month leadership program for 24 leaders, built around real challenges in digital, energy and sustainability.
Read the case →
Saudi Water Authority
An executive leadership program in Riyadh helping senior managers lead change and communicate strategy during privatisation.
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Arla Foods Ingredients
Change, leadership and communication during the acquisition of Volac's whey nutrition business: core narrative, stakeholder mapping, town halls and leadership training.
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Aarhus University, Faculty of Natural Sciences
A faculty-wide strategy process and core narrative for Strategy 2030, from executive workshops to focus groups and implementation.
Read the case →Organisations we've worked with
What participants say
participants rated it 7 or higher out of 10
“I used to think that to change you had to use your power as a boss to get the change done.”
“But now I know that unfreezing the built in idea among the team is the key to start the change process.”
— Participant, executive leadership program, Saudi Water Authority, with Monash University
Why leaders choose Napica
Research-based, not theory-heavy.
Our methods draw on rhetoric, behavioural science and decision research, taught by people who also lecture at universities.
Your cases, not ours.
Participants work on their own real challenges, so learning turns into action straight away.
Built for change, not just training.
When a program reveals a bigger need, we can stay on to help deliver it.
Local and global.
Based in Melbourne and Copenhagen, working across Australia, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe since 2006.
Backed by Monash University.
We are associates of Monash University's Enterprise Education, and our flagship program can include a Monash Digital Badge.
Get the change flow model on one page
A free one-page guide to Napica's six steps, with the questions to ask at each stage.
What's changing in your organisation?
Tell us about the strategy, merger or culture shift you're working on. In 30 minutes we'll share how we'd approach it, with no obligation.
Prefer email? contact_ap@napica.com
Napica ApS is the parent company of Rhetorica, communication and rhetorical training.