Where Will This Go Wrong?

What Most Leaders Miss During Reorgs (and What FICPA  (Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants) Confirmed)

At FICPA, we unpacked the emotional side of transitions and one truth hit hard:

Reorgs don’t just move boxes on an org chart.

They rewire trust. And they often do it in silence.

Here’s what I learned the hard way:

• When a leader exits suddenly, teams don’t just lose direction. They lose safety.
• When no one names the grief or confusion, employees write their own story and it usually isn’t generous.
• When leadership skips the emotional part, it always resurfaces elsewhere.

We built the T.E.S.T. Me™ framework to help teams process the invisible parts of change, the identity shifts, broken trust, and quiet assumptions that stall performance.

Because that’s where reorgs go wrong: 

not in the strategy, but in the story people carry about it.

And here’s the kicker, your most loyal, most trusted team members are often the ones who feel the loss most deeply.

You won’t see it on a spreadsheet. But you’ll feel it in the culture.

FICPA leaders got this. 

• They asked brave questions,
• They shared their own moments of emotional whiplash, and
• They reminded me:

Even the most analytical leaders crave human-centered tools for moments of mess.

Where have you seen the biggest emotional blind spot during a reorg and what helped you move through it?

Let’s build stronger, more resilient teams together.

-The EOC Team