Welcome to episode 45 of the Inner Game of Change Podcast where I focus on exploring the multi layers of managing and enabling organisational change.

Today, my guest is Julie Hodges;  A professor of Organisational Change, an Author and a leading Change Management Influencer .

Through her extensive work in both global businesses and academia, Julie's area of interest and research is the impact of change on people and how to gain their commitment and ownership to change.

As an author of many books including the book 'Managing and Leading People through Change', Julie shares her extensive wealth of research based knowledge on the theory and practice of sustaining change through people.

In this episode, Julie and I chat about the direct link between the way we manage change in the workplace and employee engagement.

I am grateful to have Julie chatting with me today.

Topics Include:

1. The 'ghosts' of change in the organisation
2. The key role of middle management in managing change
3. The change experience as a measure of success or failure
4. Ways to adapt change models to the context
5. Organisations develop their own change framework
6. Uncertainty is normal
7. Change is everyone's business
8. Top down vs co-created change
9. Why change has sometimes bad press
10. Julie's invaluable advice to the change practice community

And much more...

About Julie (In her own words)
As a leading expert in organisational change I have worked extensively at a strategic level in academia and in the global business world in the field of organisational change and transformation.

I am an experienced consultant, coach and a facilitator of individuals, groups and businesses facing and going through change. My particular area of interest and research is the impact of change on people and how to gain their committment and ownership to change. I am the author of several books including ‘Consultancy, Organizational Development and Change’, ‘ Managing and Leading People through Change’ (Kogan Page); Sustaining Change in Organizations(Sage) and ‘Employee Engagement for Organizational Change’ (Routledge) and ‘Organization Development: how organizations change and develop effectively’ (Palgrave McMillan). My latest book is ‘Reshaping the HR: the role of HR in organizational change’.

My work has including designing and delivering workshops on sustaining change for a number of organizations worldwide and also leadership programmes for women in Middle East, Asia and UK.

I am a Principal Fellow of the Advance HE (previously HEA), an Academic Fellow of the ICMCI, a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE), a Senior Fellow of the FME (Foundation for Management Education) and an CMCE (Centre for Management Consulting Excellence) Associate.

Contact Julie
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linkedin.com/in/professor-julie-hodges-9787836

Email
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Twitter
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