Evolving Strategies, LLC

Founded in 1999, Evolving Strategies helps leaders, teams and organizations learn, lead and change. Clients include Accenture, Ashland Inc., Bank of Oklahoma Financial, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), East West Bank, Northern Trust Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Spencer Stuart, Thomson Reuters, United Airlines, the United States federal government, and Zebra Technologies.

Founder

Forbes Coaches Council

Forbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only organization comprised of leading business coaches and career coaches. Members are hand-selected by the Council’s selection committee.

Official Member

PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in New York. PepsiCo's business encompasses all aspects of the food and beverage market. It oversees the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of its products. 

As of January 2021, the company possesses 23 brands that have over US$1 billion in sales annually. PepsiCo has operations all around the world and its products are distributed across more than 200 countries, with annual net revenues of over US$70 billion. PepsiCo is the second-largest food and beverage business in the world based on net revenue, profit, and market capitalization, behind Nestlé.

As part of the CIO transition, I led a team of employees and consultants to build the initial change management office (CMO) to enable the global technology organization to support Pepsico's digital transformation journey.

Global Information Technology | Strategy & Transformation Team | Senior Director

Northwestern University

Served as faculty for 'Executing Strategic Change,' a core, graduate level course of the Master of Science, Learning and Organizational Change program. The Master's program is grounded in concepts of cognitive science, psychology and education, and focuses on the applied areas of strategic change, performance, knowledge management, and learning.

Adjunct Faculty

Corporate Executive Board

Every year, the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) equips over 20,000 senior leaders from more than 10,000 organizations across 110 countries with the intelligence they need to respond quickly to evolving business conditions. In doing so, CEB helps them more effectively manage their talent, customers and operations to exceed business objectives.

As an Associate Director, I sold of CEB's HR-related best practices research, decision support tools, and executive education to a membership of the world's leading corporations and not-for-profit institutions.

Associate Director

Lante Corporation

Lante Corporation, a technology consulting company, customizes core extended enterprise applications to provide clients with new features to enable them to benefit from the trend toward information that is more interactive, real-time, collaborative, extended, and private.

Client Relationship Manager

Accenture

Accenture is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, providing consulting and outsourcing services through its strategy, digital, technology and operations capabilities.

Transition/Transformation Manager

CA Technologies

CA Technologies software and solutions have been powering innovation for over 35 years. Founded in 1976, CA Technologies has over 11,500 employees in 45 countries helping businesses thrive in a new world where every business is in the software business. CA Technologies has been recognized as a value leader by industry analysts and has been hailed as one of the “World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes, as well as one of the greenest companies in the United States by Newsweek®.

Sales and Marketing Associate (Pansophic Systems, Inc.)

Strengthen Your Change Leadership with a Coach You Can Trust |Forbes Contributor |Accenture Alum |Former NU Adjunct Faculty

Clients partner with me to address three key areas of need:

1. EXPANDING YOUR LEADERSHIP IMPACT
 	• Elevate Your Leadership Potential with Personalized Coaching
	• Foster Your Inclusivity as a Leader
	• Amplify Your Leadership Presence
	• Deepen Your Leadership Self-Awareness
	• Hone Your Coaching and Mentoring Skills

2. USING CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR STRATEGIC EXECUTION EXCELLENCE
	• Master the Six Levers of Change Leadership
	• Develop Resilience and Adaptability as a Leader of Change
	• Build High-Performance Teams

3.  COMMUNICATING FOR IMPACT
	• Communicate Effectively and Efficiently
	• Resolve Conflicts with Courage and Confidence
	• Engage Your Stakeholders 
	
Delivery method(s) are customized based on my client's preferences and needs. This may involve a combination of one-on-one in-person or virtual coaching sessions, team workshops, assessments, and ongoing support to ensure growth and development.

About me
I coach executives for swift, successful, impactful change in themselves, teams, companies, or industries. If this describes you and you're ready to make a transformative impact and lead with more confidence, let's go.

With over two decades of experience, I've had the privilege of guiding leaders and teams from diverse industries, functions, and locations to not just navigate, but truly excel in today's ever-evolving business landscape. Helping clients develop the change leadership skills to tackle complex challenges like digital transformations, process enhancements, and customer engagement strategies is what I do.

My proven approach fuses structure and adaptability. I tailor my approach to the distinct needs and objectives of each leader or team, using proven assessments, tools, and strategies as needed. 

My work is grounded in practical experience, having served as a leader and member of multiple high-performing teams (and some low-performing teams as well) with organizations such as Accenture and PepsiCo. By delving into and applying research on leadership, learning and change as an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University, I co-created and delivered a course on executing strategic change in the Masters level program. 

I'm honored to have earned a spot on the Forbes Coaches Council. Serving as a mentor, most recently as part of D CEO's Emerging Women Leadership Network, is also a privilege.

Sandy Schwan

Kristi Conlon Consulting LLC

Fractional Chief Learning Officer. Leadership Coach.

Appen

Led the Learning, Development and Inclusion strategic vision through a strong HR, BU and global region partnership for skill gap approaches, AI development strategy and tools, technical training, metric-driven L&D team operations. Created learning and talent capabilities and infrastructure for company-wide OKRs and new performance and growth processes. Responsible for leadership development, and facilitated internal coaching circles for managers which also facilitated change management, culture and employee engagement.

Vice President of Learning, Development & Inclusion (ASX)

DPR Construction

Led the strategic vision, implemented the technical infrastructure and designed the learning operations and services function in support of DPR Core Construction and the global family of companies.

Head of Learning and Development (Privately Held)

Responsible for strategic design, development, delivery and evaluation of all Global Training Center programs, processes, people and systems for internal and customer technical equipment certifications and upskilling. Executive sponsor of the Women at ASM leadership group.

Director of Global Learning and Development (ASM.AS)

Intel

Sales and Marketing University, L&D Strategist (2011- 2017),
Intel University/Intel Global Learning & Development, HR Enterprise Management & Leadership Development  (2003-2011)
Global Technology Manufacturing Group Training  (2000-2003)
Global Supply Chain Training (1997-2000)

Global Learning & Development Leader (INTC)

I love growing strengths in people, teams and organizations - and creating a performance culture. I'm also energized when I can drive the integration of people, process and technology to create business impact and value.

My background includes 30 years of global experience with public and private companies of all sizes and footprints. I work with a start-up mindset to systematize and scale learning solutions with a performance focus. I help companies architect, launch and sustain a skills strategy that improves employee engagement, retention, and business capabilities needed for improved KPIs.

I have served as an internal Learning & Talent Development Leader, as well as an external L&D expert for Fortune 100 CEOs and CHROs, and Pre-IPO CEOs and COOs to ensure alignment of the learning and talent strategy with the business strategy. I am also an ICF ACC credentialed leadership coach.


Areas of Experience:
*  Enterprise Learning Strategy, and functional/regional strategies
*  Talent operations, including LEAN principles
*  Broad network and understanding of L&D content, product and platform vendors/partners
*  Competency Architecture & Implementation for current and evolving/emerging roles
*  HRIS, LMS, LXP, LCM, KM, CRM, SEO, PLM and other Technology providers and ecosystems
*  Learner Experience 
*  Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
*  Org Development, including Job and Org Design
*  Leadership Development, Leadership transitions, Onboarding, Succession, Strategic scenario planning, Team development 
*  Assessment & Evaluation
*  Performance Thinking and Design Thinking Methodologies
*  PROSCI Change Management
*  Employee Experience and Value Proposition
*  Employee Engagement and Retention
* Enterprise KPI/OKRs
* Coaching and/or Mentoring of L&D and HR Professionals
*  Hogan Report interpretation and coaching
*  Custom designed solutions and programs, including immersive and VR
*  Shared Services

From a personal perspective, I love throwing clay on the pottery wheel and patiently creating something beautiful. I also love to cook and create a special meal experience for the people in my life.

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