Use Your Influence for Good Change!

According to Ken Blanchard, the key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. An influencer is someone within our organization who has the authority or trust of, a certain group of people. This authority or trust is both helpful and necessary in the workplace. The challenge we are faced with is how can we identify, build and support our organizational influencers to include them in driving successful change. In this engaging session, participants learn powerful actions and strategies for identifying influencers and raising their skills. Participants walk away with practical tools and knowledge to help coach and build influencers for change!

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify common types of organizational influencers to leverage for change

2. Explore a model to leverage organizational influence for good

3. Using the model as a foundation, demonstrate critical influencer behaviors to put into action to help promote successful change

Audience: All levels of change management

Michelle Yanahan - Principal and Owner ChangeFit 360

Michelle Yanahan, Principal and Owner of ChangeFit 360, is a passionate organizational change management strategist and thought leader with proven expertise in executing change management programs that enhance and grow organizational change management as a strategic business competency. Michelle has 20+ years of leadership roles in operations, change management, IT and PMO development. Michelle holds a Masters in Organizational Behavior as well as CCMP (one of the first 500) and Prosci ADKAR change management certifications. Michelle has been a featured presenter for ACMP, ATD, Change Management Institute, Change Management Review, PMI, OD Network and SHRM Conferences as well as chapter webinars.