Change Management Consulting

Change Management Consulting that Works

“You have become our premier change leadership strategic partner. Your change management consulting expertise in the human side of change is unparalleled and enabled our company to successfully implement our ERP Solution.”
Ted Ramlet | CIO & SVP | McKesson Corporation

“I can’t emphasize enough what a huge shift you helped to create for us as an organization. Thanks again for your change management help and guidance.

The clarity, practicality, focus, and accountability are exactly what we needed to make this major  transformation a success from a hearts and minds perspective.”
Cris Alvarez | VP Corporate Strategy | Cambridge Investment Research

“Thank you so much for being the right person with the right experience and expertise to lead our Executive Team in re-examining our approach to change leadership.

I’m grateful for how you engaged and challenged us with so many “holy crap!” insights and realizations that we needed.”
Jeff Nally | Chief Coaching Officer & CHRO | CoachSource

“You and your change management approach were exactly what we needed to create the clarity, transparency, and alignment for our ERP implementation from a leadership, change, and process perspective.

Thank you for navigating a high stakes, complex, and political process with thoughtfulness and practicality.”
Martena Kusz | VP of Strategy | J.S. Held

Large scale change is inevitable. Breadth, complexity, and the speed of change provide a unique challenge to leading organizations implementing change around the world. Yet, most change initiatives fail to meet original expectations — up to 70% by some accounts.

LSA Global’s customized change management consulting services produce innovative solutions for organizations facing changes in the areas of strategy, structure, leadership, and process. Using a process pioneered by Changeworks Global for more than 25 years, we help clients to design, mobilize, and transform their organization by effectively linking strategy, culture, talent, and results.

LSA Global’s change management consulting expertise helps leading organizations achieve rapid and sustainable results through change. Using proven change management consulting and implementation methodologies, we identify the key approaches and structures to:

• Help an under performing leader or business unit
• Improve collaboration or unmet synergies across business units
• Ensure that organizational culture does not inhibit strategic goals
• Create effective approaches and systems to develop leaders
• Increase meeting management, leading change, and cross-functional team skills
• Integrate multiple change initiatives
• Increase stakeholder and employee engagement
• Improve leadership and change agent readiness

Related Change Management Consulting Solutions:

Organizational Change and Alignment
We provide end-to-end Change Leadership services for major transitions such as mergers and acquisitions, new strategy execution, technology implementations, shifts in organization and leadership, and market changes.

Our proprietary change management approach includes the high involvement of change experts combined with proven and behavior-based change methodologies that create alignment, engagement, and business results. Areas of expertise include:

• Blueprinting the current state and urgency for change
• Designing and mapping the vision for change and the business case for change
• Assessment to determine organizational and leadership change readiness
• Development of leadership ability to effectively lead change
• Development of a stakeholder network and guiding alliances
• Implementing new technologies, processes, and business practices
• Sessions to engage employees and communicate plans for change
• Aligning and implementing strategy, culture, talent, and performance

FAQ

Question #1: What is a change management consultant?    

Answer #1: A change management consultant actively guides companies and change leaders through strategic transitions. In partnership, they help assess change readiness, fortify the business case for change, create a compelling vision for change, structure transition plans, align key stakeholders, manage change resistance, and implement measurable shifts in the hearts and minds of those most affected by change.

Change management consulting supports smooth execution across departments by actively involving those most affected by change in the process from the beginning.

Question #2: Why is change management so challenging?

Answer #2: For many leaders, change management seems deceptively simple: (1) Define the desired change, (2) Communicate it, (3) Implement it, and (4) Support people through the transition. If only it was that linear and easy.  In practice, change management is one of the most difficult endeavors an organization can undertake. Why?

Because organizational change impacts the way people think, behave, and work — often at individual, team, and organizational levels.  Change (even positive change) frequently triggers uncertainty, fear, resistance, and confusion.  Successful change requires a clear, thoughtful, and iterative process that actively involves those most affected by change to design, implement, and live the new ways.  While most leaders are under enormous pressure to make rapid change, change success takes time, patience, and empathy. Finding the right balance is critical.

Question #3: What if change initiatives have failed in the past?

Answer #3: Failed change initiatives leave an organizational wake. If employees are accustomed to stalled or unsuccessful change projects, they may struggle to move past previous failures and get on board. To set yourself up for success, be prepared to honestly acknowledge and take responsibility for the past, explicitly learn from it, and incorporate agreed upon key lessons into a practical plan for change.  People need to feel like it will be different this time.