A Framework for Change

Riding Change

How Change Moves — and How to Move With It

Every change follows a pattern. Four realms, sixteen challenges, four threshold events. Once you can read the map, you know where you are — and what the situation requires.

Riding Change

How Change Moves — and How to Move With It

Raimo van der Klein
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Part One

The Code

A symbol built in layers. Each layer adds a dimension to the map of change.

HOW THE SYMBOL IS BUILT
Select a layer
Each element of The Code adds a dimension to the map of change. Begin with the circle and work outward.
Team Assessment

Where do you
naturally belong
in the cycle?

Every person has a natural orientation — phases of the change cycle where they are energised, effective, and in their element. Twenty questions reveal yours.

Answer on instinct. There are no right answers — only accurate ones.

1 / 20
Closer to ACloser to B
Almost there

What should we
call you?

Your name will appear in the constellation.

Constellation
Click any segment to explore
Top five challenges
By realm
All 16 challenges
About

Riding Change

Raimo van der Klein

I have always been drawn to the edge — the place where what exists gives way to what could exist next.

I spent my career inside some of the most intense change environments I could find. At Nokia during the smartphone revolution, I watched a world-changing company navigate transformation in real time. At KPN, I experienced the challenge of innovating inside a large incumbent. Then I co-founded Layar, the world's first mobile augmented reality browser — a product that was genuinely ahead of its moment.

Across all of those experiences, a pattern kept showing itself. Change was not random. It moved in a cycle — through distinct phases, each with its own character and its own kind of work. Once I could see that cycle clearly, I started to understand why some transitions succeeded and others stalled. The pattern was always the same. What mattered was knowing where you were in it.

I spent the next fifteen years testing and refining that pattern — coaching founding teams, facilitating transformation programmes, and building practical tools like the TEAMDRIVER methodology and the Team Journey Canvas. The framework held, across industries, cultures, and scales.

Riding Change is the map I wish I'd had from the beginning. I wrote it so you don't have to discover the pattern the hard way.

The Book
Riding Change
How Change Moves — and How to Move With It
Raimo van der Klein
~330 pages · Hardcover
Four Parts · Sixteen Challenges
Four Singularity Events
Part OneThe Code
Part TwoThe Four Realms
Part ThreeThe Pattern in Motion
Part FourRiding Change

Four stories — a restaurant, a startup, a shamanic initiation, and the smartphone revolution — that show the pattern in motion.