Nina Dar
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Change management with real human consequences.
Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter treats change as something lived before it is managed. Across interviews and roundtable conversations, Nina Dar connects transformation theory to product data, workplace belonging, team responsibility, sustainability, and personal stories of cultural change.
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Nina Dar. The Change Troubleshooter is a business and change-management show with a noticeably human center. It is not built like a lecture. Conversations often begin with a plain question, then work outward through examples, interruptions, memories, and hard-earned practical detail. Nina Dar uses transformation language seriously, but the show keeps asking what those words mean inside actual teams and lives. One episode follows Nick Owens through selected steps from Your Move, The Human Reset, turning a book structure into a working conversation about delivery pressure, complex change, and what makes change stick. Another places sustainability beside data management, asking how endless storage, duplicated departmental information, and linear ways of working affect both decisions and environmental impact. The discussion is technical enough to talk about product portfolios and reuse, but grounded enough to stay with everyday habits. Workplace belonging is another recurring concern. In the FanatiCo conversation with James Ashworth, fandom becomes a way to test what connection at work can and cannot borrow from sport and music. The show is willing to admit when an idea is more provocative than deployable. That honesty gives it texture. Team-change episodes with Yasmin Hurst and Pete Allen keep coming back to individual contribution, leadership clarity, resources, and the ripple effect of people understanding their place in a project. Personal episodes broaden the frame without leaving the subject. Jean and Shaukat Dar’s story turns role models, cultural attitudes, and family acceptance into evidence of how slow change can become real. The show’s first-episode material also gives context for Nina Dar’s candid style, including her experience with venture capital, boardroom consequences, and the human impact of blunt change decisions. It can be warm. It can be grave. It is rarely abstract for long. The strongest moments happen when business theory is tested against something specific: a project room, a family table, a manufacturing process, a community expectation, or a person deciding what responsibility they can take. The Change Troubleshooter is for listeners who want change discussed as work people actually have to live through.
Made for: For transformation leaders, project teams, and workplace thinkers who care about adoption, belonging, sustainability, and practical delivery. It also suits listeners drawn to reflective business conversations with personal stakes.
What sets it apart: The show links change-management practice to lived experience rather than keeping business ideas inside corporate language. Its range from PLM and data sustainability to family role models and workplace fandom gives transformation a wider, more human field of evidence.
Change doesn’t only happen on big stages or inside shiny transformation programmes.It happens in real lives, real communities and often far from the spotlight.Nina Dar: The Change Troubleshooter is a podcast that gives space to those stories.Hosted by Nina Dar, transformation leader, executive coach and founder of Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions, the podcast features conversations with people who’ve driven change from the grassroots up, challenged the status quo, or quietly shaped the world in ways you may never have heard of, but should.Some episodes are planned. Some are wonderfully accidental. All are real.In 2026, the...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Nina Dar connects transformation strategy to the responsibilities, relationships and data practices that determine whether workplace change takes hold.
Nina Dar treats organisational change as a practical question about how people work, decide and take responsibility. Conversations with former colleagues and data technology professionals let her test ideas against experience, while a personal account of entrepreneurship…
The Cheeky Monkey table makes change recognizable in people, not just legible in your project plan.
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A grounded take on data discipline as climate concern and operations discipline.
Nina Dahr and guests Federico Pettinella, Anders Preisthoom, and Alan Walker frame sustainability as a practical question: what data deserves to stay, what can go, and what it costs to keep the rest.
A workplace conversation about belonging, loyalty, and the limits of turning employees into fans.
The episode follows Nina Dar and James Ashworth as they return to FanatiCo, the company Nina and Steve Smith set up to bring ideas from sport and music into the workplace.
A grounded change conversation that keeps the focus on roles, pressure, and what people can actually do.
Nina Dar starts with Adidas's 50-year Superstar campaign, then keeps the conversation on the ground where it belongs: how change actually gets done inside a team.
A warm, patient conversation about role models, acceptance, and cultural change.
Made of What Matters follows role models, shifting attitudes, and a mixed-race relationship in Manchester in the late 1960s. Nina Dar speaks with Jean and Shaukat Dar, and the episode moves through shock, then acceptance, and finally the longer reach of personal change in a…
Nina Dar frames enterprise as candor, consequence, and the uneasy work of changing a company.
Entrepreneurship is treated from an angle here. Nina Dar founded Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions in 2004 and has built commercial ventures, but she resists the label of entrepreneur.
Nina Dar interviews Nick Owens about his selection of steps from her book 'Your Move, The Human Reset', exploring their practical application in change management and transformation.
Data is not invisible.
Nina Dar sits down with James Ashworth to revisit FanatiCo and the idea of turning workplaces into fanbases.
Nina Dar brings Yasmin Hurst and Pete Allen back to the Cheeky Monkey table to ask whether change is really a team sport.
Made of What Matters brings Nina Dar together with her parents, Jean and Shaukat Dar.
Nina Dar introduces The Change Troubleshooter by tracing her path from temporary jobs and international travel to founding Cheeky Monkey Business Solutions in 2004.