“Change” has changed… change used to refer to driving new initiatives from within the organization, but now organizations are adjusting to changes from the outside as the new normalcy. As a leader are you expecting the talent in your group to thrive in an environment that increasingly demands people self-organize around and self-synchronize with business priorities that are in a constant state of flux? How do you lead by example? Companies feeling the brunt of social, environmental, and economic upheavals are rarely in the right position to leverage those disruptions... as a leader how do you communicate the opportunities associated with change?
How do you communicate to the people you lead that they have less predictable “job duties,” and that as leaders you want them to develop the competencies to thrive in roles that demand greater levels of self-learning, self-synchronization, and self-organization? Sara Roberts discusses ways leaders can enable their teams to adapt to this new normalcy and adopt new ways of working that are more collaborative, more social, and less reliant on top-down management direction. Beyond technology tools, putting in place a governance and change management framework that is people-centric is critical for success. If you are a leader involved in business transformation and talent engagement, bring your questions and challenges...this Executive Conversation is for you!

Sara Roberts is President & CEO of Roberts Golden Consulting, headquartered in San Francisco, and a recognized thought leader in the workplace of the future and emerging technologies. She and her team have lead large-scale change management, employee engagement, culture transformation efforts for a wide variety of Fortune 250 companies including AAA, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, FedEx, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Safeway, Sprint and Virgin Media. Prior to founding Roberts Golden, she held senior consulting positions within companies including Sprint, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ketchum.
Sara is the co-author of the best-selling book, Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers (Kaplan 2005), is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at leading industry events including Gartner, The Conference Board and Enterprise 2.0 on the topics of change management, innovation and enterprise social networking and has been quoted in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Fast Company and Forbes. She received her M.S. in Instructional Technology from the University of Nebraska.
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