Strategic Change Management

Please note that this program will be on August 18.

DESCRIPTION:

“Transformational change”, “enterprise change management”, “building organizational capability to manage strategic change” – these are phrases found in the strategic plans of organizations re-aligning themselves to achieve their business strategies.  However, many business leaders, when asked, still think of change management practitioners as focused on building training plans and writing communications.  Why such a disconnect?

Darryl Wilson, Change Management Director at Highmark, Inc., based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will share his experience with identifying change management concepts and approaches that are being used to address the organization's transformational change initiatives. Through group learning activities, participants will be able to share their experiences in change management and make comparisons with the enterprise change management concepts that Darryl will discuss. Particpants wil leave the session with information which can be used to influence the design of their organization's change management strategy.

PROGRAM LEADER:

Darryl Wilson is a Director of Change Management with Highmark’s Change Management Center of Expertise.  He is responsible to provide change management expertise working with Highmark’s Health Services Organization and with Highmark’s enterprise-wide consumerism initiative.

Darryl has over six years of experience as an internal organization development consultant in the apparel and consumer packaged goods industries.  His experience also includes 5 years of functional business consulting work implementing new SAP human resource technology solutions with organizations ranging in size from 120 to over 10,000 employees in industries including telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, and pharmaceuticals.

Darryl holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Saint Louis University located in