Sustainment Planning: Unlocking the Secrets to Long-Term Change Success

You've dedicated time and effort to implement change, but we all know true success lies in sustaining those changes. Yet, organizations often neglect sustainment planning and quickly move resources and focus to the next big change.

Join us as we delve into why sustainment planning is crucial for realizing the full business value of change. Discover the art of crafting effective and scalable sustainment plans to avoid the pitfalls of short-lived transformations. Discuss practical tips to enable project teams to step back while empowering stakeholders to take ownership.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Understand what is a sustainment plan and why is it necessary.
2.  Determine what components of a change need to be sustained. 
3. Discuss practical tips to transition ownership to stakeholders.   

About the Speaker: Annie Thomas

Annie Thomas is the Head of Change Management Center of Excellence at Bayer Crop Science and leads the Change Management Community of Practice across the enterprise. She is a people-centric executive with 20+ years of experience planning and implementing complex global transformations across diverse spaces including digital, supply chain, customer operations, quality, manufacturing, and business development. As a strategic leader with deep expertise in orchestrating people, processes, and programs, she is passionate about helping organizations transform a vision into reality.

Annie recently moved to Dallas, TX where she lives with her husband and daughter. She enjoys traveling, public speaking & teaching the Bible, mentoring women and youth, and trying her hand at various arts and crafts.