This paper deals with organizational change and contributes knowledge about the experiences of a local educational organizer when introducing and putting managerial shared leadership into practice in some schools and pre-schools. The organizer’s aim with the change was to achieve better results by means of improved pedagogical leadership, better health and use of resources. The study builds on recorded meetings and interviews with the organizer’s top management group in a Swedish municipality that introduced managerial shared leadership in the specific form of functionshared leadership. Valuable knowledge is now available for future organizers’ quest for knowledge when introducing managerial shared leadership.