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Earn Your Seat in the C - Suite with Darden’s Chief People & Diversity Officer Sarah King

Consulting Matters

Sarah and I met in 2012 when she hired me to consult with her and the senior team at Wyndham Vacation Ownership on a massive org transformation project she was leading. Sarah is a visionary who can see a better future for the organization she serves, AND she is a warrior who can make this type of change happen.

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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

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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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

Courtship of a Client (Business Development) March 2012: I ask a few consulting friends to introduce me to their corporate HR colleagues as a way to get my foot in the door. I have a need for an independent change management consultant in LA. If you don’t want to learn from the story, just skip to the lessons learned at the end.)

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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

I am a Change Management Consultant working with leaders around the world on change initiatives, and in this blog, I focus on the positive impact the situation could have on workplace behaviour. Seeing these results, management at CTRIP offered all their employees the option to WFH, which boosted the firm’s productivity by 22%.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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How to be a Seriously Effective Leader in a Crisis

Organizational Talent Consulting

Academy of management perspectives , 20 (2), 58-69. Service amid crisis: the role of supervisor humor and discretionary organizational support. The Journal of Services Marketing. & Viswesvaran, C. analysis of positive humor in the workplace. Journal of Managerial Psychology. Romero, E. & Cruthirds, K.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). & Quinn, R. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Heffernan, M. Why Mergers Fail. link] Schein, E. & Schein, P. Organizational culture and leadership, 5th edition (5th ed.) John Wiley & Sons. & Mirvis, P.

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