Transform Better: Predictable Success for Complex Change Initiatives introduces a practical framework to help you see, monitor, and manage the structures and behaviors silently driving your organization’s outcomes.
Every year, organizations pour billions into transformation — ERP rollouts, digital shifts, M&A integrations — only to miss timelines, overshoot budgets, and fall short of strategic goals.
Beat the 70%: Turning Complex Change into Predictable Success is a practical guide for transformation leaders, senior project managers, and change enablement teams who are ready to break the failure cycle.
Author Paula Schwartz introduces the SCALE Framework — a field-tested system built from decades of experience leading and rescuing complex change efforts. With five interconnected elements —
Standardize, Centralize, Align, Lead, and Engage — it helps leaders see and shape the invisible structures and behaviors that determine outcomes.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Whether you're driving enterprise-wide change or advising clients through complexity, Beat the 70% gives you the clarity, confidence, and tools to make success not just possible — but predictable.
Ensure language, expectations, and ways of working are consistent across the enterprise
Enable the entire organization to access consistent and up-to-date data and information
Provide a single source of vision, priorities, and messaging
Model ownership, accountability, and trust
Invite stakeholders to participate in the journey -- past, present and future

As a Consultant, Coach, and Transformation Strategist, she partners with organizations leading high-visibility digital and operational change to drive sustainable culture shifts.Her work focuses on making structural and behavioral dynamics visible—the often-overlooked drivers behind transformation failure.
With decades of experience guiding large-scale change across sectors, Paula brings a practical, field-tested approach to helping teams lead with clarity, manage complexity, and achieve predictable success.
Transform Better brings together the insights and tools she’s used to help organizations turn risk into results—and failure into momentum.
This free preview includes Chapter 2 and an introduction to the SCALE Framework — a practical guide to making transformation success predictable.
Inside, you’ll discover:
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