Kathy Coffey Solberg book offers a framework for workplace change

Kathy Coffey Solberg’s new book, Reweaving What Matters, gives leaders and teams a two-part method for understanding workplace patterns before launching another fix. The Sept. 10 release argues organizations can avoid repeated change failures by examining structure, culture and behavior first.

Why it matters: - Reweaving What Matters targets a common workplace problem: organizations launch new strategies, training programs or systems, but the underlying issues remain. - The book aims to help leaders, teams and changemakers understand how workplace problems take shape before choosing a solution. - Solberg’s approach could matter for business, government and nonprofit organizations that want change to stick instead of layering new programs on top of old problems.

What happened: - Kathy Coffey Solberg published Reweaving What Matters: Practical Tools for Workplace Transformation through Creative Courage Press on Sept. 10, 2026. - The book presents a two-part framework for workplace transformation: Unweaving and Reweaving. - Solberg built the framework from 25 years of work with leaders across business, government and nonprofit organizations. - Solberg is also a fiber weaver, and she uses weaving as the core metaphor for organizational change.

The details: - Unweaving includes three steps: Notice, Clarify, Act. - The Unweaving phase asks readers to identify repeating patterns, understand why they developed, consider what purpose they once served and determine what they may be protecting now. - Reweaving includes three steps: Envision, Structure, Weave. - The Reweaving phase focuses on defining what is needed now, building supporting structures and integrating new ways of working into daily organizational life. - Solberg compares workplace structure to the warp in woven fabric. - In Solberg’s model, structure includes policies, decision-making, resource allocation, information systems and formal structures. - Solberg compares culture to the weft in woven fabric. - In Solberg’s model, culture includes communication, relationships, leadership behavior and values in action. - The book says both structure and culture have to be addressed for change to work. - Solberg says changing culture without examining structure can leave the underlying system untouched. - Solberg says changing structure without attending to relationships and behavior can create a different version of the same problem. - The book introduces the Penelope Principle, named after Penelope in The Odyssey. - In Solberg’s use of the story, unweaving means looking closely at what has been created, deciding what should remain and identifying what can be loosened and changed. - The book includes exercises, conversation tools and worksheets for use at work and beyond. - The paperback price is $24.95 and the ebook price is $12.99. - The book is 230 pages and measures 6 by 9 inches. - Available formats include paperback, ebook and audiobook. - ISBNs are 978-1-959921-10-3 for paperback, 978-1-959921-11-0 for ebook and 979-8-234-08859-8 for audiobook. - The book is categorized under Workplace Culture, Decision-Making & Problem Solving and Leadership. - Free companion worksheets are available here. - Media inquiries, interviews and review copies are handled by Joanne McCall at McCall Media Group through this contact page.

Between the lines: - The book pushes back on a familiar instinct in organizations: move quickly to a new fix before examining the system that produced the problem. - Solberg’s weaving metaphor gives leaders a simple way to separate structure from culture, which can help clarify why some change efforts fail. - Adam Kahane of Reos Partners describes the method as pragmatic and applicable “at every scale: a team, an organization, a community.” - Bob Stilger, author of After Now: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin?, wrote the foreword.

What's next: - Solberg is offering free companion worksheets online for readers who want to use the framework in practice. - The book’s publication gives leaders and teams a new toolkit for diagnosing workplace problems before designing interventions. - The release also positions Solberg for interviews, speaking and review coverage through McCall Media Group.

The bottom line: - Reweaving What Matters argues that better workplace change starts with careful diagnosis, not a faster rollout of the next solution.