Monthly Program | Behave Yourself! Using Behavior to Drive Change

Behave Yourself! Using Behavior to Drive Change

Facilitated by Michelle Yanahan

Friday, February 16th, 2018

Are your organization transformation efforts falling short?  Are you feeling ill equipped to support your organization’s volume and rate of change? You are not alone!

In this session, we explore using a behavior based approach to driving change resulting in improved business ROI and outcomes.
 
What to Expect from this Interactive Session:
1.    Understand state of change and why change matters
2.    Define behavior including how behavior gets rooted and reinforced 
3.    Learn 3 practical ways to implement behavior to more successfully drive change

Meet Michelle:

Michelle Yanahan, Principal and Owner of ChangeFit 360, is a passionate organizational change management strategist & thought leader with proven expertise in executing programs to enhance and grow organizational change management as a strategic business competency.

Michelle has 15 +years progressive business experience in leadership roles in operations, change capability and competency development, change execution, IT execution, project execution/management and project management office (PMO) development and operations.  

Michelle's professional expertise includes the following:

• Corporate office operational transformation for insurance and financial services in national and global operations
• Successfully grew the discipline of organizational change capability for a recognized market leader in financial services 
• Represented North America as the face of change partnering with colleagues across the globe to help them establish regional change capabilities and competencies to help transform their businesses
• Coached business and project execution leaders on transformational change 
• Conceptualized, built and delivered behavior focused leader and employee learning solutions for 400+ resulting in an average 25% project execution lift
• Created and actively engaged a change special interest group with 300 +members to drive organizational change
• Founded ChangeFit 360 to drive a behavioral based approach to organizational change that drives results

Michelle holds a Masters in Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University as well as CCMP and Prosci ADKAR change management certifications.  Michelle is a member of industry associations such as ACMP, CODIC and ATDChi and has been a featured presenter at the ACMP Midwest Conference for both 2015 & 2016 and ACMP Webinar series presenter in 2017.  Michelle holds a Board position for the ACMP Midwest Chapter.  

Session Details:

7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Registration and Networking

8:00 - 9:30 a.m. Presentation

9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Open Networking