Janine Lequay’s Amazon #1 Book on Navigating Change

by Klysha Best

Janine Lequay never planned to become an expert on change. But life, as it often does, had other plans.
Today, Lequay is a celebrated change strategist and the author of the newly released The DO IT Change Method™ , which debuted as an Amazon #1 New Release in Women & Business.

Her book offers a structured yet deeply human framework for navigating life’s transitions, whether chosen or unexpected. But the road to becoming a bestselling author was paved with multiple miscarriages, moves, corporate setbacks, and the profound grief of losing her mother just two weeks after giving birth to her first daughter.

“I eventually collapsed, right? Identity-wise,” Lequay admits, reflecting on the period when her own framework became her lifeline. “I really just had a really hard time understanding what was happening with me… And when I finally used my own framework to come out of that space, it was just so eye-opening. It’s what held me in a really difficult time.”

Lequay’s journey to becoming a change strategist is anything but linear and that’s precisely the point. With a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in English, her first job out of college was as a case manager for children in foster care. It was rewarding but devastating.

“The experiences that these children had, I realized it’s obviously through no fault of their own. It was really the adults in their lives who have failed them,” she recalls.

That realization propelled her into education, working with non-traditional students at DeVry University, and eventually into academic advising, where she thrived helping adults juggle families, jobs, and degrees. To better serve graduate students, she pursued a master’s in human resources management, a decision that exposed her to the world of training, development, and change management.

In 2013, Lequay made a life-altering move from Washington, D.C. where she resided, to Trinidad, following her now-husband. There, she worked with Profiles Trinidad and Tobago, a company focused on psychometric assessments, before returning to the United States during COVID with a nearly five-year old and a six-month-old in tow.

“It required a lot of adaptation,” she says simply. After securing roles with Fortune 500 companies in organizational change management, Lequay noticed a glaring gap: corporations spend billions on change management annually, but individuals are left to “wing it” through personal transitions.
“There’s corporate, individual. There unfortunately isn’t much for individuals to navigate change,” she explains. “Companies are spending billions of dollars a year in change management, but individuals are really just winging it and trying their best without any real tools or resources.”

Existing frameworks like Kotter’s Eight-Step Model or Bridges’ Transition Model, are designed for practitioners, not everyday people navigating grief, career pivots, empty nests, or identity shifts. However, The DO IT Change Method™ fills that gap.

Unlike traditional change models that focus on systems and processes, Lequay’s framework addresses the emotional impact of change, helping individuals manage their feelings in a structured way without ignoring them. It’s designed for laypeople, not just corporate consultants.

“We identified that at the core is that people experience change, it is emotional. Doesn’t matter if it’s work, doesn’t matter if it’s personal, it is emotional,” Lequay says. “DO IT actually provides a way for people to manage those emotions in a structured way without ignoring them, without just jumping to processes and systems.”

Central to Lequay’s methodology is the Change Archetype Assessment™ , a tool that helps individuals understand their natural relationship to transition. Why does the same life event, like a promotion, a move, a loss, feel manageable for one person and overwhelming for another?

The answer, Lequay explains, isn’t weakness. It’s wiring. By identifying their unique change archetype, individuals can stop fighting themselves and start navigating transitions with clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.

Lequay’s perspective is deeply shaped by her heritage. The daughter of Trinidadian immigrants, she grew up in a household where Trinidadian culture, the food, the music, the values, was woven into every aspect of life and today, she passes that same pride to her three children.

The DO IT Change Method™ is available now on Barnes & Noble and Amazon, where it debuted as a #1 New Release in Women & Business. Readers can also learn more about Janine’s work and take the Change Archetype Assessment™ at:
www.doitchangemethod.com
www.mychangearchetype.com

For those navigating life’s inevitable transitions, whether chosen or unexpected, Lequay’s message is clear: you don’t have to wing it. There is a framework. There is a way through. And sometimes, the journey through the mess is exactly what reveals who we’re meant to become.