ChangeFusion happens when people who don’t think change is attainable, realize it is. Uncertainty becomes clarity. Fear becomes belief. Immobility becomes momentum. Teams achieve results that far surpass expectations. Companies become places people are proud to work. Leaders drive businesses to success with a new perspective. This is possible. This is ChangeFusion.
What are the principles behind our business?
In working with us you will find a true partner. We bring focus, insight, and ease into the messiest of situations and partner with you to find a way out together. Our commitment and expertise are true differentiators and our emphasis on partnership paves the way for results that matter and change that transforms.
ChangeFusers are dedicated, smart, and driven. Clients know us for our business savvy, authenticity, and unwavering commitment to make a meaningful difference. Together we create a company that asks powerful questions and partners with you in creative ways to achieve more.
ChangeFusion’s community of diverse consultants has a deep global footprint. When staffing our projects, we bring together consultants and colleagues from around the world to work together under a shared purpose and common vision.
The average employee dreads going to work on Monday. We’ve all been there, or seen it, and the truth is when people aren’t productive, businesses aren’t successful. We don’t believe this has to be the norm.
That’s why we started ChangeFusion.
ChangeFusion exists to guide leaders and businesses to greatness: the sweet spot where financial success and employee happiness meet. We’ll take you straight into the brawl of change and lead you to the tipping point where momentum begins and innovation is unleashed.
We are a community of colleagues working toward a common goal: Ensuring all businesses and humans reach their fullest potential.
We honor you and your company’s individual experience without judgement, becoming a trusted advisor, and guiding you to moments of insight. We work with unwavering commitment to make a difference for each and every client.
Let’s get to work.
“We want to create a different kind of consulting company.” A company that helps people work together to achieve real results and business success. A company that helps its clients tackle tough problems and inspire powerful change and transformation.
A company that truly makes a difference.
Those are the seeds from which ChangeFusion was created. Since then, our clients and employees have enabled our success and we’ve developed a proven track record of expertise and results. This is our company and the journey is ongoing.
Be a part of our story.
At ChangeFusion we are committed to your success.
We use a simple and effective project methodology grounded in applied behavioral science, human systems, complexity science, and neuroscience. We know your situation is unique, which makes true partnership, adaptation, and flexibility a must. We commit to being easy to work with, thinking like a real partner, and delivering high quality work.
President & Chief Innovation Officer
I help leaders, teams, and organizations find and be their best. It’s my passion and specialty, and something I’ve been doing for over 20 years as a coach, facilitator, leader, speaker, and teacher. You’ll see me putting this passion into action most often by strategizing large-scale change, building senior team effectiveness, and developing and coaching leaders and managers.
The creative nature. I love the innovative thinking, continual learning, and discovery as we support people and organizations in finding and being their best. I also love how we, as a team, constantly push ourselves and our clients to see new patterns and perspectives. I am known for listening to and noticing subtle patterns within a team or organization and helping frame and bring these dynamics to light in ways that can propel a group forward. It is powerful to partner with clients in this moment of insight, when you can actually feel the tension release as a strategic challenge becomes a new opportunity or an option for action emerge. I also love rolling up my sleeves and finding strategic, yet practical, solutions to complex organizational dilemmas. It’s fun and high impact.
The first decade of my career was in marketing and leadership as a Nordy (aka, someone who works at Nordstrom). I then found my way to S.W.I.F.T., a global financial telecommunications organization, where I held enterprise-wide responsibilities for Corporate Programs and supported internal clients, including IT/Operations and Commercial divisions. During my time at S.W.I.F.T. I developed and implemented leadership development programs, led cultural change initiatives, revamped the performance management process, onboarded senior managers, and developed teams and leaders. My passion for helping others then brought me to initiate the conversations that led to the creation of ChangeFusion, where I’ve been president since 2010.
You will find me cooking, walking Ivy the family dog, meditating, doing yoga, reading voraciously, exploring, taking photos, or simply enjoying a good glass of wine and time and space to revel in my job of being a mom.
Gratitude and kindness to all (it really begins and ends there for me), smiles and laughter, and the courage and wisdom to be oneself.
Organization and Leadership Development Consultant
I help leaders, teams, and organizations solve dilemmas, work collaboratively, make changes, and achieve results. I use a collaborative, results-oriented approach and hold a simple, yet powerful, intention to make a meaningful difference in each client interaction. I bring 20+ years of experience doing this as a coach, facilitator, change consultant, leader, speaker, and teacher.
I love helping people who don’t believe change is possible realize that it is. I love the challenge of strategizing how to create organization-wide change. I love the feeling of momentum that emerges as an organization approaches the tipping point of change. It is fun, powerful, and meaningful. And it makes me love what I do every day.
I started my career as an entry-level sales person with Proctor and Gamble. While at P&G, I progressed through several levels, eventually coming to lead a $200 million business unit through a re-organization and culture change that resulted in improved customer relationships and double digit business growth. That experience helped me realize my passion and expertise for change and led me to return to grad school to pursue a new career path. For the past 20+ years since obtaining my degree in organization development, I have worked around the world in multiple industries as a coach, facilitator, and change consultant.
You will find me enjoying dinner and a glass of wine with family and friends, spending time in nature (hiking, camping, gardening, simply being), and playing or watching any of my favorite sports: golf, football, basketball, and hockey.
The importance of kindness, the power of love, and the potential in each person.
Vice President, Programs and Product Development
I work with leaders at all levels of organizations to implement large-scale change and increase team effectiveness, engagement, and individual leadership capacity. I specialize in training and change strategy, both of which help me actualize my passion for helping others find creative solutions for what’s “not working.” I’m an out-of-the-box, creative thinker steeped in a strong research and analytical background through my I/O degree. I love to infuse humor and a smile into what I do every day.
I love the collaborative nature and spirit of our work. I am continually inspired and challenged to think differently by working with new and existing clients and by working internally on ChangeFusion team. The concept of challenge is another thing I love about my life as a ChangeFuser. Our work brings us into organizations during times of complex change and immense uncertainty. In that space, I enjoy supporting clients find creative solutions that are simple, practical, accessible, and tailored to their needs.
My career began at JPMorganChase where I worked on a survey team providing analysis and support to business lines. Following that, I became a HR Business Partner at S.W.I.F.T., a financial telecommunications firm where I provided change management, leadership development, and performance management support to various divisions. I then transitioned to Booz Allen Hamilton, where I supported government agencies by providing human capital consulting. In 2012, I joined conversations that led to the creation of ChangeFusion (over runs, bottles of wine, and fires). The decision to come on board was clear and I’ve been ChangeFusing ever since. Here I play a leadership role in driving our program and product development, as well as leading key client engagements. One informal, yet important, role I play is to keep everyone laughing with practical jokes and my razor sharp wit.
My weekends are usually spent with family and friends. In 2014, I developed an interest in cooking. Somewhere between julienning carrots, burning myself, and garnishing a finished plate with obscure herbs, I found a hobby that blends my desire for precision with my love for the unexpectedly cheeky. I’m guilty of spending Saturdays in my pajamas, decorating for upcoming holidays, or catching up with friends over brunch. Come Sunday, I’m at pilates, playing with Sophie and Boo (our dogs), or trying to best my co-workers on the Weekend Warrior FitBit challenge (did I mention I’m competitive?).
A good belly laugh, saying I love you just because it’s true, the weightiness of “real” books, a healthy pour of cabernet, and finally (and perhaps most importantly) my Mom.
Senior Director of Organizational Change and Development
I seek out and help close the gap between the current state and desired future for individuals and organizations. I focus on surfacing their strengths to improve performance and help them achieve more than they realized possible. I enjoy doing this through coaching, facilitating capacity building workshops, and utilizing the principles of human performance technology (a process of performance analysis, cause analysis, and intervention selection).
I love the opportunity to know diverse groups of people on a meaningful level, especially through coaching and problem solving. I love going into an organization and making a significant, measurable difference that serves them in the present and future. I love providing clarity and solvency to tricky situations that recur and feel like brick walls. But perhaps one of the things I love most is simply helping others find the tools they need to realize their own strengths and solutions.
Prior to ChangeFusion I spent 13+ years working for Sprint, the third largest wireless provider in the United States. I provided national support for the Consumer Sales division in operations, sales, and management initiatives. I enjoyed working with leadership to approach challenges from a comprehensive, objective perspective. My key contributions included: conducting readiness assessments, facilitating change and leadership development programs, coaching management, and using human performance technology to improve organizational processes and performance. During my tenure at Sprint I also fulfilled one of my greatest joys, working with and helping children, by serving as Executive Director of Fusion Dance Company, a non-profit focused on bringing the arts to underprivileged youth and children.
As a ChangeFuser, I support a diverse range of public and private clients in developing creative solutions that align with their goals and strategies for long-term growth and sustainability. My work includes mentoring and coaching leaders to increase employee engagement, team building, facilitating, and implementing change strategies.
When the weekend comes I disconnect from technology and reconnect with nature, friends, and family. I show my love through cooking, so making a huge meal, inviting family over to share it, and then going kayaking with friends (the next day – I need time to digest) is my weekend pulse. When my introverted self needs rejuvenation, I enjoy journaling, reading, and taking longs walks with my dog Cheyenne (my best friend on four paws).
Acting out of kindness, with forgiveness, and seeking to understand, not judge. I believe a day shouldn’t go by without making at least one-person laugh or smile, even if that person is me.
Senior Consultant
Leveraging the power of teams, and working with teams at all levels to discover their strengths, I am a creative out-of-the-box problem solver with a strong pragmatic streak. Big, “unsolvable” problems that require collaboration, new ways of thinking, and relationship development are very motivating to me. I am especially strong with turn-arounds and starting programs from scratch. I am comfortable and confident with staff at all levels; developing trusting, durable relationships is a key strength.
Leveraging the power of teams, and working with teams at all levels to discover their strengths, I am a creative out-of-the-box problem solver with a strong pragmatic streak. Big, “unsolvable” problems that require collaboration, new ways of thinking, and relationship development are very motivating to me. I am especially strong with turn-arounds and starting programs from scratch. I am comfortable and confident with staff at all levels; developing trusting, durable relationships is a key strength.
I started my career in non-profit leadership and had my first taste of organization development as part of a leadership development program when I was 24. I was hired a few years later by a large bank in San Francisco as a training specialist and advanced there to lead the Human Resources function and implemented the bank’s first OD function. I have developed two HR functions from scratch, and worked as an OD leader at several global technology and financial services corporations, a bio-tech start-up, and as the head of talent management at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC.
I’m passionate about rooting for the Orioles (and my hometown Dodgers), traveling, doing volunteer work, and raising our new puppy to become a therapy dog. There’s a nice wine collection in the basement that requires routine attention for “quality control.” I’m an intermediate ukulele player, and when pressed can sing a little in Hawaiian.
The art of the possible – that with a clear vision, solid planning, and good intention, most things are possible. That leaders are made, and born and exist at every level in an organization. That all of us are smarter than any one of us. And, nothing beats kindness and thoughtfulness in helping people succeed.
General Manager
With over twenty years of hands-on experience in diverse business settings, I offer timely and reliable assistance to facilitate informed decision-making and business growth. I proactively analyze problems, break them down into achievable steps and tackle them one by one. Organization, time management, communication, and technical skills enable me to maintain seamless operations and deliver indispensable support for our team and clients
Contributing to the team, being part of the solution, and seeing results make it a joy to come to work. I love working with intelligent, compassionate people that inspire me to learn something new every day.
Early in my career, I worked for Southern States Cooperative (Richmond, VA) as a Retail Support Trainer for stores in a five-state territory. I trained and supported locations as they transitioned the new computerized platform.
At Computer Sciences Corporation, now DXC Technology, (Falls Church, VA) in the Corporate MIS department, I established and managed MIS Customer Support to improve service to all divisions within the company. I was also the voice behind the Time Entry System.
I accepted a unique opportunity to work abroad in Islamabad, Pakistan, for a privately held power plant. In the corporate office, I managed administration, payroll, HR, and medical insurance.
At IrisGuard Corporation (McLean, VA), I assisted in establishing the US office, of a British start-up tech firm; hired, onboarded, and managed the team of sales and technical staff, while leading daily operations for the US branch in the absence of the CEO and COO.
As the business manager for Culinaria Cooking School (Vienna, VA), I managed all phases of production for the tri-annual course catalog. I drove marketing initiatives through social media platforms and maintained the company website. While at Culinaria, I was also a Wellness Coach for WW (formerly Weight Watchers).
It is important to be present and find joy in the smallest things daily. I continue to be curious and learn constantly. Acknowledging the presence of others, regardless how brief the encounter, is crucial – people are worthy of attention.
I am on the Board of Directors for the Fredericksburg Food Co-operative – a gorgeous community-owned grocery store. I firmly believe in our core values of a locally sourced, environmental sustainability, vibrant/engaged community, and financially strong organization.
Chief Cuddle Officer
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