The Change Artist

This season is all about Transformation.  Transformation is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, particularly by consultants, but what does it really mean.  This season, we have a great line-up of business and thought leaders who are at the forefront of the theory and execution of transformation to help us shed a little light on what transformation is and how we execute it well.  

So to help us kick off the season, ...

This season we’ve looked at a range of structures, from the project management office to practices within the organization that help promote employee work-life fit.  We wrap up this series of episodes by taking a look at shadow boards.  

This week on The Change Artist, we talk to Mahwesh Khan, a senior advisor and researcher at the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with specific expertise i...

As we continue to examine the structures in and outside our organizations that help us work through change, I wanted to spend a minute thinking about structures and practices within the organization that help promote employee work-life fit.  It’s incredibly hard to accommodate change, and be resilient in the face of change, when you’re dealing with overwhelm and, at least for me, one of the biggest triggers of overwhelm comes when ...

I’ve talked to many people who have a love hate relationship with project management.  When there’s no project management rigor around the change programs we’re trying to drive, programs can feel chaotic and collapse under the weight of that chaos.  When there’s dogmatic adherence to standard project management one-size-fits-all practices, it can feel like change initiatives collapse under the weight of non-value-add administrative...

As we continue to examine the structures in and outside our organizations that help us work through change, we’re taking a minute to shine a spotlight on professional associations.  These are organizations that operate outside of a specific employer who focus on a specific skillset or industry and provide opportunities to build skills and network.  There’s a professional association for almost any line of work you might be interest...

The organization operates as a complex ecosystem of people, policy, process, structure, and tools.  Trying to drive change in a single aspect, without considering the reinforcing structures across the full ecosystem is likely to render those changes unsustainable.

This week on The Change Artist, we talk to Darin Dorsey, an experienced anti-violence consultant and trainer, and the co-founder of Rooting Movements, and he sha...

This week on The Change Artist  we continue our conversation on measuring change and how we talk about the degree to which we’ve been successful in driving our desired change.  Our guest today is Dr. Jue Wu, a postdoc researcher in STEM education at UC Berkley and the author of the recent paper in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education -  “Change mapping of models to diversify STEM faculty as practiced by alliances for gradua...

"When you go in to collect data, step one is why.  What is your purpose?  What is the mission you're trying to move forward."  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Sertrice Grice, cofounder and chief consulting officer of Mattingly Solutions, a woman-owned diversity, equity and inclusion consulting firm.  She’s also the co-author of "Inclusalytics - How Diversity Equity & Inclusion L...

"There's no business without showbusiness."

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Mike Verret, principal of Verrett & Associates - a firm that helps entrepreneurs shape their message and talk about their businesses in a way that makes investors and buyers say “Tell me more!”, and he’s with us today to challenge our thinking on how we craft messaging that engages our audience and helps us ge...

"Instead of fighting [sexism] and saying we don't want to do this, let's just stop doing it.  Let's just stop using gender as this meta context and the most important thing when writing about women in their fields."

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Christie Aschwanden, science journalist, author, and advocate for the Finkbeiner Test - a checklist to help science journalists avoid...

"The management skill for this era is knowing how to communicate with your team, and to create a holding space, often remotely, in the face of so much uncertainty."  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Morra Aarons-Mele, a global speaker, best-selling author, and strategic communications consultant.  She's also the host of the The Anxious Achiever, a podcast on a mission to reframe how we th...

"Your industry may be technology or medicine or research, but the business that you're in is the people business."  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Jay Williams, an author, speaker, and communication coach focused on helping his clients create alignment among leaders and executives to ensure clarity of values, company culture, strategic priorities, and key business metrics.  He shares hi...

"Your thoughts become your words.  Your words become your actions." - Gandhi  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Akua Nyame-Mensah, an executive coach, recognized facilitator, and former start-up leader who supports reluctant, fire-fighting, and overwhelmed leaders.  She shares her insights around not only the language we use with others, but also the language we use with ourselves and how that ...

 "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry.   

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Alex Echols, a coach, consultant, and speaker focusing on the intersection of emotional intelligence-based leadership, mindfulness, and wealth building, as we...

How do we understand the behavior of others?  As leaders, how do we tailor our approach to the individuals on our team to help everyone be as successful as possible?  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Gregg Gregory, a teambuilding mastermind with over 25 years of experience helping organizations build the leadership, cultlure and teaming behaviors that allow them to produce breakthrough results.  In our conversati...

How do we understand our work in the context of the broader organization? How does that understanding impact our engagement with the change initiatives going on around us?  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Kevin Herring, founder of Ascent Management Consulting, specializing in work-group and business unit turnarounds, coaching and other workforce performance solutions. He shares his insights on the importance of ...

"Behavior change is what backs up good intentions or the desire to correct something."  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Diana Alt, career growth coach and strategist, who shares her insights on the importance, as a team, of getting on the same side of a mission or problem as a way to maintain a productive relationship to the hard work that needs to be done.

To learn more, you can visit Diana a...

"If the external environment is moving faster than your internal environment, then you're going to fall behind until you fall over, whether we're talking about 'you' as a person or 'you' as an organization."  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Rich Alderton, a speaker and coach with over 25 years leading change in some of the world's most innovative organizatio...

"When we can really understand what's driving behavior in the first place, we can find ways to meet those needs in a better way and create a path of least resistance with our change."  

This week on The Change Artist we're joined by Chris Gray, pioneering expert in buyer psychology and purchase behavior, who shares his insights on relationships as the foundation of effective change.  

To learn ...