What's holding it?
The question behind every lasting decision.
Mofoyeke Omole is an organisational change consultant helping leaders build decisions that last.
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Every day, people decide to change something. A habit. A strategy. A policy. A culture.
Most of those decisions disappear quietly. Not because they failed, but because nothing was built to hold them.
What's holding it?
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You probably can't name the day it stopped.
Think about a decision that mattered to you this year. A healthier routine. A new way of working. A strategic priority. A promise you made to yourself.
Can you point to the day it stopped?
Most people can't. There was no meeting where everyone agreed to abandon it. There was no crisis. It became a little less present each week until one day it was no longer shaping anything.
That's how most changes disappears.
Quietly.
No announcement. No crisis. No meeting where anyone decided to stop. Just a little less present each week, until one day it wasn't happening any more.
What’s holding it?
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Nothing holds by itself.
Every decision that survives is held by something stronger than intention. Not motivation. Not discipline. Not goodwill. Something else.
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A named owner
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A routine that already exists
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Leadership that stays long enough for the new way to become the ordinary way.
Take those away and change rarely fails. It expires.
Does the decision you're trying to make last have what it needs?
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Three moments
to ask it.
Most people ask it once something has already gone quiet. It works from the day the decision is made.
AT THE POINT OF DESIGN
Before the strategy is approved, the policy is signed or the initiative is launched.
Ask it while the decision is still taking shape, and the structures that hold it get designed in rather than added once implementation is already underway.
DURING IMPLEMENTATION
The work is underway. Progress alone won't tell you whether the decision will last.
Ask it now and you see what is holding the work, what is weakening, and where attention is needed before it fades.
AT TRANSITION
Leadership changes. Funding ends. Programmes conclude. Teams move on.
Ask it before the transition rather than after, and what was holding the decision can be transferred onto something that stays.
The words never change.
The answer does.
04
One question.
Every context.
Across the public sector, private sector, nonprofit and community-led initiatives, the work has been different, but the underlying challenge has remained remarkably consistent. Different people. Different priorities. The same question.
What's holding it?
Organizations Engaged
Practitioners trained
National Policy instruments shaped through technical input
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See what's holding
your decision.
Some decisions are well supported. Others are running on hope.
The Five-Minute Check takes one decision, yours or your organisation's, and tells you what is actually keeping it alive, what isn't, and what happens next if nothing changes.
It works on something you're about to start as well as something that has been running for years.
An immediate result on screen. No email required.
WHAT YOU GET
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One sentence naming what is actually holding the decision today
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What happens next if nothing changes, written plainly
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What is and isn't keeping it alive, at a glance
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One thing to do before Friday
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The full working report, by email, if you want it
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Put the question to work.
A question only becomes valuable when it changes the way people think, decide and act. This is where the question becomes practical.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Advisory
For organisations navigating significant change and determined to make it stick.
Speaking
For conferences and leadership teams looking for a different conversation about change.
Executive Facilitation
For executive teams, boards and policy leaders making decisions that need to endure.
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Advisory
A small group of leaders and practitioners working through real decisions together, with a start date and an end date.
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Field notes.
Ideas refined through practice. Written, spoken and filmed. Only when there's something worth saying.
WRITING
THE PODCAST
ON CAMERA
Trusted by institutions across sectors:
Every important decision deserves one more question.
Before asking whether it's working, ask
what's holding it?
What’s holding it?
FIELD NOTES
One observation, when there’s something worth saying.
Which is not often.
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