Association of Change Management Professionals Global Conference

Liz Guthridge Managing Coach and Consultant, Connect Consulting Group	Michael Nestor Vice President, Head of Change Management, Bayer Group	Deborah Nystrom Owner, Reveln Consulting	Gail Severini Director, Conner Partners	James Bohn Global Director, CMO Johnson Controls
Presentation:
Level: Experienced Topic Area: Best Practices, How-to, Case Study
"Success Secrets of Trusted Change Advisors" What does it mean to be a trusted change advisor in today's turbulent times? Learn from this panel of internal and external change advisors who support leaders dealing with complex, time-sensitive challenges. The advisors will talk about how they vary their approach and style for different leaders so they can build trust and accelerate change, especially dealing with diverse stakeholders who want their voices heard. You'll also hear about what works and what to avoid in the role of a strategic change advisor. This includes serving as a sounding board, helping uncover issues, testing ideas and taking an active role in execution. Plus, you'll get tips, techniques and practical ideas from the panelists as well as other workshop participants. In addition to the panel discussion, the workshop will include an Open Space portion where we'll discuss issues that are top of mind for all workshop participants. You'll have opportunities to shape the session with your peers to get actionable insights that you can start to apply. Key Takeaways: What it means to be a credible head, hands and heart change management advisor today How to balance different approaches, including evidence-based management and visionary How to earn trust quickly and help time-pressured leaders navigate the discomfort of change How to deal with being lonely in the change manager role while your leaders are lonely at the top
Biography:
Liz Guthridge: Liz Guthridge of Connect Consulting Group works with leaders to influence employees to get on board with change. She helps leaders gain clarity around change so they can share their vision, explain their goals and clearly articulate their "ask" of team members, peers and other employees who often don't work for them. Liz is probably the only change coach and consultant who has trained with David Nadler, the founder of Delta Consulting Group; Roger D'Aprix, the father of employee communications; and David Rock, the founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and studied General Henry M. Robert's Robert's Rules of Order. This training has provided her with a strong grounding in change leadership principles and practices, employee communication expertise, and group dynamics and meetings. Liz combines all these disciplines to serve as a strategic advisor to help leaders navigate a clear, credible path for successful, sustainable organizational change. Michael Nestor: Mike Nestor is the Head of Change Management globally for the Bayer Group. He is responsible for leading an enterprise-wide change management approach. Mike has been with Bayer for more than 13 years, serving in a variety of executive level HR and Organizational Change related positions. Before this current assignment, Mike was Global Head of Organizational Effectiveness for Bayer HealthCare where he led many large scale organizational change projects, including the integration for several acquisitions. Before joining Bayer, Mike held HR leadership positions with Engelhard Corporation (now part of BASF) and Royal Dutch Shell. Mike started his career as a human resources officer in the United States Army where he developed his specialty in organizational and leadership development He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Central Connecticut State University and a Masters of Arts degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Houston, Clear Lake, Texas. Mike is also an honor graduate of the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (an intense four month program based on Kurt Lewin's organizational and social change concepts.) Deborah Nystrom: Deborah Nystrom of Reveln Consulting is a change facilitator & strategist; executive, leader team, and group coach; and an organization development (OD) consultant. Deb started her career as an internal multi-unit consultant in the 1980′s working with many change projects and initiatives. She became the OD practice lead at the University of Michigan in 2005. Deb continues today as owner of Reveln Consulting, working with and advising leadership teams and organizations including faculty and physician leaders, researchers, unions, and college presidents focusing on strategy development, process consultation and managing change and transition. Deb's education and skills are well represented on her main website, http://www.Reveln.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook (Reveln Consulting, Change Management Results and the Social Media Learning Lab), YouTube (ChangeResults & SocMediaLearnLab), Twitter (@dnrevel & @RevelnConsults.) She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband, and often talks with her adult children IRL (In Real Life) and via text, Facebook and sometimes using a phone. Gail Severini: Gail is a director with Conner Partners. For more than 20 years, Gail Severini has partnered with business leaders executing strategic initiatives. In roles as internal business lead and external change agent, she has developed a deep respect for the organizational challenges that leaders must navigate and has demonstrated capability for handling the dynamics and negotiations required to optimize Return on Investment. Her work has created broad and deep change within the organizations she has served. Gail has led teams launching new products and services, as well as start-ups; negotiated strategic alliances and partnerships; and implemented re-organizations, business process re-engineering, and new technologies. A graduate of Queen's University (B.A. Hon), Gail earned her Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation in 1993 and Prosci Research's Change Management Program Certification in 2009. She continues to study, write, teach and speak on the topics of change and change management. James Bohn: Jim Bohn is the Global Director of the Change Management Office for Johnson Controls. His change mantra is: "Reduce anxiety to improve adaptation." Throughout his career, he has served in variety of roles ranging from the shop floor to design, engineering, sales and service. He considers his early operations experience to be invaluable for understanding stakeholder acceptance. He has held various managerial change roles including: Director of the Customer Success Center, Director of Best Business Practices for North American Service Operations and Director of Change Management and Communications. Jim holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught MBA level change management and organization development classes at the University of Wisconsin's prestigious LUBAR School of Business, Marquette University and Concordia University. Business Week interviewed him in 2008 on the subject of business resilience. Jim has published numerous journal articles on leadership and organizational change. He also is the developer of the Organizational Efficacy Scale published by HRDJ in 2010, and has an ongoing research program in Organizational Efficacy.
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