Amplifying Impact in Organizational Change through a Coach Approach
Presenting with Kevin Zemetis
This session will explore how a collaborative effort between the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF) is developing key insights on how harnessing both change management and coaching skill sets can amplify impact in organizational change. The ACMP-ICF Joint Task Force has been examining the “power of both” over the last two and half years and this session will focus specifically on one of their four focus areas, the use of “coach approach” in organizational change and transformation initiatives.
Task Force Leader Maria Darby and Task Force “Coach Approach” co-lead Kevin Zemetis will share the ACMP-ICF view on the value of adopting a coach approach as an essential and powerful tool in the change practitioners toolkit. Additionally, they will welcome input from participants and invite all to be part of this dynamic collaboration of the two professions.
Maria is an executive leader and change strategy execution consultant and served as a senior strategist, advisor, and program leader across diverse change and transformation efforts involving organizational restructures, mergers and integration, innovation, digital transformation and culture change.
Maria was an Executive Vice President and Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led the Firm’s change management capability and client change and transformation engagements across a diverse set of industries. She has been a key driver in formalizing change management as a recognized profession and discipline, having served as the CEO and Board President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP), where she contributed to advancing the practice of change management worldwide.
Maria also served on The Conference Board’s Change and Transformation Council where she contributed to change management thought leadership, and industry-wide collaboration on change management best practices. She co-led a collaboration between Booz Allen and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to develop and institutionalize graduate-level change management education - Change Management Advanced Practitioner (CMAP) certificate program.
A natural facilitator and cross-organizational broker, Maria brings her passion for building change leadership competency, bias for action, natural empathy, and unwavering commitment to the continued advancement of the change management discipline.
Maria is an executive leader and change strategy execution consultant and served as a senior strategist, advisor, and program leader across diverse change and transformation efforts involving organizational restructures, mergers and integration, innovation, digital transformation and culture change.
Maria was an Executive Vice President and Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led the Firm’s change management capability and client change and transformation engagements across a diverse set of industries. She has been a key driver in formalizing change management as a recognized profession and discipline, having served as the CEO and Board President of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP), where she contributed to advancing the practice of change management worldwide.
Maria also served on The Conference Board’s Change and Transformation Council where she contributed to change management thought leadership, and industry-wide collaboration on change management best practices. She co-led a collaboration between Booz Allen and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business to develop and institutionalize graduate-level change management education - Change Management Advanced Practitioner (CMAP) certificate program.
A natural facilitator and cross-organizational broker, Maria brings her passion for building change leadership competency, bias for action, natural empathy, and unwavering commitment to the continued advancement of the change management discipline.
