The Organizational-Based Approach to Drive Change in Organizations, With Michelle Yanahan

Summary:

In this episode of the Change Management Review™ “From the Field” Series, Managing Editor Brian Gorman interviews Michelle Yanahan, Principal and Owner of ChangeFit 360. Michelle 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.

Attendees of our Lead Change 2017 event will remember her exciting, dynamic presentation called “Behave Yourself: Using Behavior to Activate Change”.

In this brief, action-packed interview, Michelle shares lessons from her work in the change management field, focusing on the behavior-based approach to change and what you can do to gain benefits from this approach in your own work today.

Questions Asked:

1. What opportunities are you seeing in the industry that you are looking to capitalize on with ChangeFit 360?
2. You talk about a behavior based approach to change. Can you explain more about that and how it differs from traditional change mgmt?
3. What are some practical things change practitioners can do to bring in this behavior based approach as part of their toolkit?
4. Clearly, you are not only intellectually dipped, if you will, into this behavior-based approach, but you’re passionate about it as well. How do you bring this all together at ChangeFit 360?