Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This morning, I attended a Momentum session of the Society for Evidence-Based Organizational Consulting (SEBOC). I gained my first consulting client, a small mental health counseling service. In 2009, the recession from 2008 forced me to pivot, sell the business, and reenter consulting full-time. That’s a lot of bending!

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 12, 2023

Culture Change Strategy #6: How leaders recruit, promote, and fire Who gets hired, promoted , and fired, and for what both creates and reinforces your organization's culture. The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30 (4), 763-781. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 65 (3), 177-198. Bausch, A., &

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Organizational Development can support the implementation workshops with change models and activities for the workshops. Combined with leadership development, assessments can create a sense of urgency and motivation for change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

A framework for the role of the human resource in managing culture in mergers and acquisitions. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877. Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). A framework for the human resources role in managing culture in mergers and acquisitions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2018

By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. Jouko Karvinen, the CEO at the time, and his team decided not to depend on consultants, which would have been the typical way to go. Matt Lyon/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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