I started this company after watching organizations spend thousands of dollars on change initiatives only to realize that no real change had occurred -- even though their employees were suffering from massive amounts of change fatigue.

In this era of almost constant change, your organization’s ability to adapt and respond quickly may mean its very survival. Yet research shows that almost 70 per cent of change initiatives fail and almost 75 per cent of those that are successful fail to achieve all of their intended results. Time and again, I have seen that the organizations with the most successful change initiatives are those that are most effective at addressing the human side of change.

My team and I specialize in helping leaders understand the human dynamics of change and incorporate this knowledge into practical plans that allow them to tap into the collective intelligence of their people to implement successful and sustainable change in their organizations.

DAWN-MARIE TURNER, PhD, President & Organizational Change Specialist
Dr. Dawn-Marie Turner is an organizational change specialist with more than 15 years experience and a doctorate in organizational change and decision science. Her experience includes the development and implementation of change programming, transition planning and executive change management coaching to help organizations maximize the adoption of new systems and business processes. Dawn-Marie’s clients include health care, government and Crown corporations, post-secondary educational institutions and private industry.

Dawn-Marie developed the DEAM© transition management methodology, which helps organizations increase their overall capacity for change and implement change with greater success. She has published and presented numerous articles on organizational change, project management, transition planning, and informatics.She is also the founder and chair of the International Council on Organizational Change (ICOC). The ICOC is a group of change management scholar practitioners working in a collaborative, non-competitive way to inform and advance the practice of change management worldwide.

Dawn-Marie works to help her clients use change to increase their competitive advantage. Her ultimate goal is to leave a positive legacy of sustainable change with the organizations and individuals she is dedicated to helping.

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SHERRY SUKKAU, Business Development Specialist

Sherry Sukkau is a dynamic sales and marketing professional with close to twenty years in the pharmaceutical industry including fifteen years as Area Business Manager for one of Canada's largest pharmaceutical companies. She has won several prestigious national awards recognizing outstanding performance.

Sherry has extensive change management experience including re-engineering sales and marketing structures as well as influencing product positioning, compensation, territory and team alignments. In addition, she has served on a National Advisory Board focused on change initiatives that contributed to the company's status as one of the Top 50 Employers in Canada for five consecutive years.   

Sherry is a strategic and visionary thinker, a natural communicator and team builder, and a results-focused leader. She believes in the value of change management and the contribution it makes to the success of a company. Her professional, enthusiastic and approachable manner coupled with her sales and marketing experience will add to Turner Change Management's continued commitment to provide clients with the very best in organizational change consulting and educational services.

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Carol Standil

Carol Standil is a versatile business leader and organizational change professional with more than 17 years experience in communications, marketing and management for charitable and not-for-profit organizations, community newspapers and a large public sector organization. She has led the change communications program for mergers, department alignments, culture change and service delivery transformations.

Carol is a big picture thinker. Taking to heart Stephen Covey's advice "seek first to understand", Carol draws on her journalistic training and an early background in retail sales to ask probing questions that deepen her understanding and enable her to work collaboratively with clients to develop effective, holistic solutions. 

Carol knows the power of effective transition management to help organizational growth and performance. 

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