Change Logic

Bridgette specializes in innovative global transformation and change programs. An organizational psychologist, she has over 12 years experience as a strategy and change consultant and human capital specialist, working for some of the world’s most recognized brands in Europe, Asia and the US.

Bridgette started her consulting career at Ernst & Young where she designed and delivered culture change programs. Bridgette then moved to IBM in a Strategy & Change Consulting role for Europe, Middle East & Africa and later for Asia Pacific, where she pioneered organizational change initiatives and architected key aspects of the significant transformation programs at IBM, Volvo, Kodak, Dana Corporation, Proctor & Gamble, Nokia and Deutsche Bank. She has successfully implemented programs ranging from increasing workforce flexibility, leadership empowerment, sales transformation, graduate development, talent management, HR process transformation, centralization and outsourcing. She has developed change programs for as many as 50 different countries. Bridgette has designed technological innovations and implementation frameworks for HR Self service and leadership strategies for business continuity. She is the author of white papers in these fields. Bridgette works closely at the C-level, facilitating strategy execution and coaching executives across a broad range of industries throughout the transformation journey.

Before joining Change Logic, Bridgette was the Asia Pacific Director for a global talent management consulting company and was responsible for building the consulting practice and thought leadership specifically for the emerging Asia Pacific region and implementing change programs at Deutsche Bank, RailCorp and ANZ bank.

Bridgette holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Jennifer S. Goldman is an organizational psychologist and consultant recognized for enabling senior executives to more effectively manage challenging conflict and strengthen leadership capacity.  She brings 15 years of experience working with global leaders in team and one-on-one settings in a wide range of industries, including financial services, high-tech, consumer goods, and global non-profit and governmental organizations.  Using a highly engaging teaching and coaching style, Jennifer blends her expertise in psychology and negotiation to help her clients drive bottom-line individual and organizational results. 

Jennifer is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University and an executive coach with the Program on Social Intelligence at Columbia Business School.  Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Negotiation Programs at Mediation Works Incorporated, and as a facilitator for the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. 

She has written articles and chapters on leadership and conflict in various publications including Chief Learning Officer Magazine Online, International Journal of Conflict Management, and The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice.  Jennifer received a B.A. in Social Psychology from Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. 

Christine has 15+ years of experience as both a strategy consultant and entrepreneurial executive.  As the co-founder, CEO and President of a Pittsburgh-based start-up focused on the sale of patented fluid injection technologies, she successfully raised close to $1M in angel investment, and directed all aspects of the start-up’s patent commercialization, operations, key hiring decisions, and branding, marketing and sales strategies. 

As a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Christine served Fortune 500 companies facing growth, branding, financial, and organizational design issues in sectors including: consumer packaged goods, retail, consumer electronics, healthcare, robotics, telecommunications, insurance, and education management.

Formerly a Strategic Planner at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Christine helped to design and implement the strategic planning process of this multi-disciplinary academic medical center. She also facilitated the strategic planning and resource allocation decision-making process of 20 multidisciplinary teams.

Before joining Change Logic, as the owner of a small boutique consultancy, Christine served growth-oriented companies by combining strategy facilitation and development with high-impact coaching and development programs designed to unite teams behind a consistent strategy.  She is trained in the use of Meyers-Briggs.

Christine holds an MBA from The Wharton School, and a BBA from The University of Notre Dame. 

Libby has ten years consulting experience in the areas of organizational development and change, strategy implementation, executive development, executive coaching and organizational learning. She has worked with clients in a broad range of industries including financial and professional services, transportation, non-profits, telecoms, and pharmaceuticals.

Previously Libby was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and with Katzenbach Partners, LLC as a project leader. She served clients and lead engagements in a broad spectrum of practice areas, including helping companies to align and motivate their talent base during times of organizational change. She has designed and implemented leadership capabilities at several organizations in Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and professional services.

Whether working one-on-one with executives, leading customized executive development programs, or facilitating strategic planning processes for leadership teams, Libby applies a knowledge of business dynamics and coaching and facilitation skills to support clients in addressing some of their most pressing challenges. Libby holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. She also holds certifications in several modalities related to executive coaching. Libby has extensive international work experience, and is a native speaker of French and fluent in German.

Adam Kleinbaum is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business. His research focuses on corporate innovation. In particular, he is interested in how large firms successfully create new businesses by combining resources from different parts of the organization. Adam has worked extensively with Professor Michael Tushman and individual work teams on understanding and then implementing change efforts. He has worked with clients in the information technology, manufacturing, electronics, communications, and government sectors.

Adam holds a doctorate in management from the Harvard Business School and graduated with honors from Harvard College. His work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal. Prior to his academic career, Adam worked in management consulting and was part of a corporate innovation team at Morgan Stanley.

Carol is a consultant and adviser on strategy, innovation and change for technology and healthcare companies. She was most recently a Managing Director at venture capital firm, Burrill & Company. Before that, she was General Manager for IBM's global Healthcare and Life Sciences business. She led a team in developing the latest information technology solutions and services, establishing partnerships and overseeing IBM investment within the healthcare, pharmaceutical and life sciences markets. In more than 20 years at IBM, Dr. Kovac held a number of executive management positions, including vice president at IBM Research, where she was instrumental in launching the Computational Biology Center and the Blue Gene supercomputer project.

IBM Life Sciences was one of IBM’s original ‘Emerging Business Opportunities.’ She started with only two employees in the year 2000 and successfully grew the unit into a multi-billion dollar business, and one of IBM's most successful ventures to date with more than 1500 employees worldwide.

Dr. Kovac holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College. She sits on the Board of Directors of Research America, Africa Harvest and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Advisory Council. In 2004, Carol had the distinction of being named one of the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune magazine and won the Scrip 2005 Pharmaceutical Executive of the Year Award.

Ellen Krause-Grosman is the Business Manager for Change Logic. Ellen manages the commercial, marketing and financial affairs of Change Logic, creating a seamless experience of excellence for our clients and associates.

Ellen brings more than 15 years of diverse experience as a consultant, coach, video producer and educator. Ellen has worked with WGBH, Tufts University, and Thrive Coaching. Ellen earned her Masters in Education from the Harvard University and received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago. 

Narendra Laljani is a director at Ashridge Business School, a leading international business school in the UK, where he teaches, researches and consults on business strategy. His main interests and expertise include strategic change, the strategic process, innovative growth strategies, and the challenges of building market-focused organizations. He works with senior managers and directors across a range of international organizations and industries. Narendra has worked with many companies such as Carnegie Mellon Bank, Lafarge, Smith & Nephew and Unilever on consulting and executive education projects.

At Ashridge Narendra leads Qualification Programs and the Leading Strategy and Change faculty group. He received his Doctor of Business Administration from Cranfield University and has degrees in economics and management. Prior to joining Ashridge, Narendra worked with the chemical multinational ICI for 15 years in a variety of capacities.

Donna specializes in aligning talent and culture to support organizations strategic growth goals. Donna has over 20 years of experience as an organizational development and human resources executive.  She began her corporate career in the financial services sector.  At American Savings Bank she led the implementation of large scale technology and training projects. 

With over 15 years as Executive Vice President of Human Resources in the Financial Services and Education sectors Donna has been the architect of organizational change initiatives to support business growth.  She has led the development of strategic talent management systems to support accelerated growth, facilitated the development and implementation of strategies, organizational designs and culture change needed to meet rapidly changing business demands, as well as building and leading strategic HR functions.  Donna has worked closely with CEO’s, executive teams and board members to advise and support the development of their top talent.

Donna received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology and teaching certificate from the University of Washington.

Kevin McCarthy is a consultant whose primary work focuses on exploring how learning dynamics are integral in change efforts; either individual or collective. He has extensive training and experience with adult learning models in post-graduate education. He has trained and studied with William Isaacs and Peter Garrett through the organization Dialogos, Inc., a recognized leader in the theory and practice of dialogue, organizational learning and collective  leadership.

Kevin has consulted globally to companies in the technology, health and manufacturing sectors, applying the Tushman & O’Reilly models to achieve lasting change. Kevin has been a faculty member for the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal program at Stanford and Harvard. He leads a program for the American Leadership Forum that brings together a diverse community of business leaders and is Director of Integrative Health and Wellness at Northwestern Health Sciences. Kevin was the Vice President for Education for the Palmer University System.

Kevin is a doctoral student at the Fielding Graduate University. Originally trained as a Doctor of Chiropractic with his Masters in Health Professions education from the University of Southern California, Kevin has also trained in health systems performance improvement with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Christine acts as the point person for internal and external projects across the Change Logic organization. Christine provides a high level of logistical support from project conception to completion, ensuring exceptional deliverables for Change Logic clients.

Christine graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a BA in Legal Studies. She is an alumna of Sigma Kappa sorority where she held multiple leadership positions, including Vice President of Membership. After graduating, Christine worked as a membership coordinator and event planner for The Association for Corporate Growth, Boston Chapter.

Reshma Palaniappan is the Project Manager for Change Logic.  Reshma drives project management for key clients, executes business development activities, and provides administrative support to the Change Logic team. 

Reshma brings more than 10 years of experience working internationally in Hong Kong, Switerzerland and the United States.  Reshma has had diverse experience in areas of sales, business development, and recruting capacities across the hotel, telecom, and real estate industries.  Reshma earned her Bachelors of Arts in Business Adminstration from AIU in Atlanta and a Bachelors of Hotel Managment from "Les Roches" Hotel Managment School based in Crans Montana, Switerzerland.

Alexander is a leadership development and organizational change specialist with 11 years proven capability in supporting leaders and leadership teams to improve their ability to implement their agendas and strategies.

 Previously Alexander was Director of Leadership, Talent and Learning for Kingfisher Group and before this was Head of Leadership and Talent Development for BT Global Services.   Kingfisher Group is Europe’s leading home improvement retailer and the third largest in the world with 75,000 people and $15B of revenue, and BT Global Services is one of the most successful Global IT Network Services organisations with 30,000 people and $12B of revenue.

In these roles, he was responsible for executive development and the design and delivery of programs to support business transformation.  He designed the core foundations of these organization’s approaches to leadership development and personally delivered a range of change interventions, development programs and executive coaching.  He has established a reputation for helping leaders and executives improve their performance by increasing their personal leadership impact, developing their ability to create effective action in others, and demonstrating successful team and organizational leadership.

 Before working with BT, Alexander led his own leadership development practice working with clients in public and private sectors to promote the behaviors necessary to underpin performance improvement.  Prior to this he founded and led the learning and development consultancy unit for University College, Chichester.  He holds a Bachelor of Education and is certified in a broad range of psychometric tools and methodologies. 

Curtis Rising helps clients design breakthrough strategies and make the organizational changes needed to execute those strategies. Curtis’s specialty is helping clients evaluate and pursue inorganic growth options – licensing, alliances, joint ventures, M&A – starting with the key questions of “Build or Buy?” and “Buy or Ally?” He has deep experience as a consultant, executive and academic in the design and management of M&A integrations.

Curtis was previously Director of Organization Development at Mercury Computer Systems. At Mercury, he led complex enterprise changes and built the leadership development system. Curtis created and applied a tool for M&A target assessment and integration based on a framework of Professor Clayton Christensen. Curtis then worked with Christensen at the Harvard Business School. They have since co-authored “New M&A Playbook,” published in the Harvard Business Review. The playbook guides companies through the process of finding the right target, paying the right price and doing the right integration. They also co-authored a HBS case study, "A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources."

 Curtis started his for-profit career as an entrepreneur. He was Co-Founder, President & CEO of Beowulf Technologies, a disruptive technology play focused on low-price, high-performance servers.

Curtis graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dartmouth College and has a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School. He has studied at University College London, the University of Granada, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ben Shenoy is a social scientist and consultant whose expertise is in what happens when individuals interact with each other and with the complex organizational systems in which they find themselves. He is interested in how these interactions influence decision-making, team dynamics, and organizational performance. Ben holds a PhD in Organizational Behaviour & Social Psychology awarded jointly by Harvard Business School and Harvard University’s Psychology Department. He has taught a variety of courses on organizational change, innovation and decision-making at Harvard’s Business School, Kennedy School of Government and Psychology Department.

Ben gained several years’ experience as a consultant with KPMG and Ernst & Young, focusing particularly on energy, telecommunications and media companies. He has been involved in several organizational change initiatives, working with senior teams on formulating strategy, implementing change, through to monitoring resultant performance. Before starting his PhD, Ben was a Principal in Ernst & Young’s Strategy Consulting Practice, as well as an Account Director responsible for managing relationships with the headquarters of one of the firm’s largest global energy clients.

In addition to his doctorate, Ben holds Masters degrees in systems engineering (from Cambridge University), business administration (from London Business School), and social psychology (from Harvard University).

Wendy Smith is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Alfred Lerner School of Business at the University of Delaware. Wendy’s work focuses on how organizational leaders manage strategic paradoxes – simultaneously managing strategies for today and tomorrow, innovation and existing products, financial and social bottom lines.

Wendy has taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard University and was recently nominated as Best MBA Teacher at the Alfred Lerner School of Business. Wendy earned her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Her research has been published in journals such as Organization Science and Management Science and has presented these ideas to academics at the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society and practitioners at Project World and the Center for Quality Management’s Executive Roundtables.

Brian Woolf is a consultant providing expertise in the areas of human resources and accelerated change. Brian has worked with clients in the manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, health, information technology and banking sectors. He specializes in enabling leaders and their teams to structure programs of change and achieve tangible results.

Prior to his consulting career, Brian was Director of Human Resources for IBM Sales and Distribution in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). His responsibility in that role was for human resource policy and practices affecting more than 25,000 employees. During his career at IBM, he held numerous positions spanning many areas of the business — from sales and services to manufacturing, development and corporate functions. Brian’s human resources expertise is comprehensive. Before senior management assignments, he was a lead staff member in compensation and benefits, employee and industrial relations. Brian was a leading member of various internal change efforts at IBM, including those initiated by Lou Gerstner when he joined IBM as CEO. Brian was actively involved in changes related to server and software businesses, segmentation of industry coverage and routes to market via business partners and telesales. Brian is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and has lectured at the London School of Economics.