Facilitating Organizational Change Certificate

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Elaine Biech

ASTD lead facilitator, Elaine Biech, has 23 year of experience with government, corporate, and nonprofit clients, including the U.S. Navy, NASA, Newport News Shipbuilding, American Red Cross, Lands’ End, and numerous other public and private sector organizations. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including Training for Dummies, The Consultant’s Quick Start Guide and Interpersonal Skills: Understanding Your Impact on Others.

Mitch Kotula

Since 1982, Mitch has held a wide variety of Change Management leadership positions and is known as an innovator and as an expert in change implementation and transition. He is a practical consultant who can translate theories and concepts into effective solutions that work in real life situations. He is currently operating a private consulting practice, working also as a certificate program facilitator for ASTD.

While at Accenture from 1995 through 1999, Mitch had worldwide responsibility for the development and delivery of training and competency development for the Change Management practice area. As such, he worked with internal development teams and a wide variety of thought-leaders, academic institutions and practitioner organizations to provide state-of-the-art training solutions for a global practice.

Before joining Accenture, Mitch co-developed and managed KPMG Peat Marwick’s Change Management practice while maintaining an active consulting practice with clients. Prior to his KPMG experience, Mitch was a senior consultant with ODR in Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked with Daryl Conner in writing the book, Managing at the Speed of Change. Recently, Mitch was a key contributor working with Peter Robertson on the book, Always Change a Winning Team.