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International Council on Organizational Change
International Council on Organizational ChangeThe International Council on Organizational Change (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. Founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 2008, the goal of the Council is to create a forum for the exchange of ideas and best practices to influence and elevate the science of change around the world. Members of the ICOC are experts in their field and deliver their work throughout the world through publications, workshops, seminars, white papers, conferences, and other avenues. MEMBERS Dawn-Marie Turner, PhD The founding member of the group and current chair, Dawn-Marie Turner, PhD, CMC is president of Turner Change Management Inc., and an organizational change specialist with over 15 years experience. Dawn-Marie has a doctorate in organizational change and decision science from Walden University and has developed her own proprietary change transition methodology - DEAM©. Her experience includes the development and implementation of change programming, transition planning and executive change management coaching. She has been a speaker at national and international conferences on organizational change. Learn more about Dawn-Marie Turner...
Kilian Bennebroek Gravenhorst Kilian is a certified management consultant and president of PlusPulse, a change management consulting company in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also an associate professor at Sioo, an inter-university centre for organizational change, in Utrecht. Following a study of barriers and success factors in complex change processes, Kilian developed the Change Monitor, an assessment tool successfully used throughout Europe and the Netherlands with numerous governments, municipalities and corporations, and by an international network of certified consultants. Learn more about Kilian Gravenhorst... (Note: you will need Google Translator)
Jacob Hallencreutz Jacob is a senior partner at Implement MP AB in Stockholm, Sweden, focusing on change management consultancy. He has more than 15 years of practical management experience from both service and manufacturing companies. Jacob is also a PhD student at Lulea University of Technology. His research interest focuses broadly on how to accelerate and execute organizational change, with a specific focus on process management based on systems thinking. Learn more about Jacob Hallencreutz... (Note: you will need Google Translator)
Karen Somerville Dr. Karen Somerville holds a PhD from Carleton University, an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a Certified General Accountant (CGA) designation from CGA Ontario, Canada. She is an assistant professor at the Hamline University School of Business in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. She teaches various business courses including organizational change, organizational behaviour and strategic management. In 1993, Karen founded Performance Plus Group, a management consulting firm focused on organizational change. She assists private and public sector organizations with their organizational change initiatives. Learn more about Karen Somerville...
Bob Meekin Bob is founder of The OD Center. He has learned about organizations through both hands-on experience and higher education. He has held senior leadership roles in organizations such as Chrysler Corporation, Exxon Chemical, Mesaba Airlines, Becton Dickinson and GN Hearing Instruments. Bob received a B.A. from St. John’s University, an M.A.I.R from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. Degree in OD from American University and NTL in Washington D.C. where he graduated with distinction. Bob is also a doctoral candidate at the University of St. Thomas. He teaches on an adjunct basis at Hamline University in the MBA program, at Capella University and at Concordia University.
Lysbeth van Silfhout
Lysbeth works as both practitioner and academic, combining her daily work as a change management consultant with PhD research on the role of the line manager in successful organizational change.
At the University of Twente she finds her challenge in improving quality of academic research by trying to answer the question: and what will we do different knowing what we found? An example of this question is the research
on the figurehead of change and resistance to change. When we know that choosing the right figurehead leads to increased change readiness, the next research topic is 'orchestrating the figureheads'.
Lysbeth has completed many change projects at leading companies around the globe. After a career with Ernst & Young consulting and Capgemini she started in 2007 her own practice
Learn more about Lysbeth... (Note: You will need Google Translator)
Els Koopmann-Duffhues
Els has almost 15 years of management experience in sales, (international) marketing and strategy. Born and raised in the Netherlands, she has been working and living in Germany since 1993. She founded Dutch Business Link (Hamburg) in 2005 and focuses on connecting Dutch and German organizations. She offers support in the areas of sales, marketing, strategy and intercultural understanding. Els is currently a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on cultural diversity between the Netherlands and Germany and its effect on bi-cultural cooperation and organizational change.
Kathy Cowan Sahadath
Kathy is a Program Manager at Hydro One Networks Inc. in Toronto, Ontario Canada. She is responsible for planning and facilitating transformational change with large project implementations. During the past 30 years, her responsibilities have focused on strategy development for major organizational change initaitives, advising senior executives and change leaders on change strategies.
She has a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems specializing in the area of organizational chagne and leadership from Fielding Graduate University. Her PhD dissertation entitled "Leading Change One Conversation at a Time: A Phenomenographic Study of Senior Leadership Conversations" extends our understanding of the organizational change process by focusing on the conversations that senior leaders use to create and sustain business transformation. Published Articles
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