S3E635 April 2021

S3E63: Everything you need to know about Change Management with Paul Major

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S3E63: Everything you need to know about Change Management with Paul Major

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In this episode, Val and Dale get super geeky about change, psychology and people. Change is all around us and one of the key challenges when delivering a project. We're joined today by Paul Major. Paul has over 20 years of experience in leading and...

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Paul Major

Co-founder & Director at https://www.changemaker.org.uk/

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in leading and delivering strategic change and transformation across the private sector, public sector and NGO’s. In rôles including Executive Management, Programme Leader, Facilitator and Leadership Coach he has gained a unique insight into the challenges of creating, delivering and realising sustained benefits from complex organisational change. Over recent years Paul has focused on how to support the human side of change and leads the changemaker human change practice. This group supports leaders and their teams in times of transformation and change to fully embrace new ways of working, encourage cultural shift and adopt behavioural changes that in turn lead to the realisation of tangible business benefits and competitive advantage. As well as being a regular and popular conference and event speaker, Paul is also a leadership coach, a qualified practitioner using the Lumina Learning psychometric tools and a Prosci Certified Change Management practitioner.

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