Gretchen Asher

Led all Change Management activities for Workday implementation driving the people side of change. Deliverables included change strategy, stakeholder analysis/management, readiness assessment, resistance mitigation activities, communications planning and deployment, training assessments, leadership coaching, and change network coaching.

Led all Change Management activities for large technology implementation driving the people side of change. Deliverables included change strategy, stakeholder analysis/management, readiness assessment, resistance mitigation activities, communications planning and deployment, training assessments, andleadership coaching.

Led change management activities for acquisition of DePuy Synthes Medical Devices + technology transition to SAP for ~8,000 customers and ~2,000 employees. Deliverables included change strategy, stakeholder analysis/management, readiness assessment, resistance mitigation activities, communications planning and deployment, training assessments, leadership coaching, conducted change workshops for external customers.

Coached team of newly certified Prosci Practitioners to implement Prosci change management methodology on large EPIC implementation and acquisition of 248 ambulatory care centers impacting 4,000 employees. Led all strategy development and execution of change management activities.

Led change management activities for a successful EPIC implementation of 15,000 users.

Led change management activities for acquisition of a medical group. Conducted leadership assignment workshops to ensure cultural alignment of combined entity. Deliverables for both projects included change strategy, stakeholder analysis/management, readiness assessment, resistance mitigation activities, communications planning and deployment, training assessments, leadership coaching.

Led change management activities for global SAP/Hana implementation. Deliverables included change strategy, stakeholder analysis/management, readiness assessment, resistance mitigation activities, communications planning and deployment, training assessments, leadership coaching, change network coaching.

Led process identification strategy and deployment to inform organization design and people movement plan to align Western & Central-Eastern Europe into One NSP Europe model impacting people movement across Europe; centralizing roles and functions, creation of new roles both at Nike Europe HQ and in territory and aligning talent and people to new structure. This included all stakeholder assessment and engagement planning and communications development and deployment as well as leadership coaching to lead for change. In addition, provided change management guidance to China NSP and as needed.

Intel Security (former McAfee Security): Led change management and culture change effort for acquisition of McAfee Security (~7,000+ employees globally) to ensure a smooth integration into Intel's processes, tools and systems.

Platform Engineering Group : Developed culture strategy and led execution plan for desired culture change for a global division of 24,000 employees. Mobilized and coached global volunteer network of change agents (~400 volunteers globally) for execution of corporate culture change initiative.

• Provide change management, culture consulting and New Service Line creation to various business divisions at Intel
• Selected Projects:
• Intel Security (former McAfee Security): Led change management and culture change effort for acquisition of McAfee Security (~7,000+ employees globally)
• Coached senior leaders and top global managers to lead for change and role model desired culture attributes
• Led org design work and people movement activities
• Effort led to a smooth integration into Intel's processes, tools and systems
• Wrote all communications for senior leaders
• Performance metrics include design and delivery of 9 training courses for 1300 managers between August and December with attendance rate of more than 73%
• Platform Engineering Group: Developed culture strategy and led execution plan for desired culture change for a global division of 24,000 employees
• Mobilized and coached global volunteer network of change agents (~400 volunteers globally) for execution of corporate change initiative
• Coached leaders and top global managers to lead for change and role model desired culture attributes
• Creation of New Service Line: Led global team to develop methodology, tools, templates to Stand Up an Organization (SUP) for Intel to stand up new (internal) organizations quickly and effectively and make them fully operational within 90 days
• Creation of New Service Line within HR: Created, staffed, trained an internal consulting group within HR to minimize Intel's dependence and costs of external consultants.

Lattice Semiconductors: Developed and executed change management strategy and all activities for a global Salesforce.com implementation. Coached senior management to define success metrics for user adoption. Developed and implemented adoption plan for global users in U.S., Asia, and Europe. Developed and deployed all training modules for full time sales, distributors, and channel partners on mobile platform.

Cambia Healthcare: Created internal Change Management Office. Coached/mentored Director and staff of the CMO. Designed Change Management methodology and tools/templates CMO.

Nike Digital : Developed change management strategy for digital expansion of Nike.com in Asia. Conducted detailed stakeholder assessment and management plans to ensure smooth adoption of change from brick & mortar delivery model to also include direct to consumer delivery. Coached senior executives to lead for change at U.S. Headquarters and in Japan, China, and Korea. Created and deployed all project communications world-wide in multiple languages. Served as Change Management portfolio lead for upcoming implementation of China & Korea.

Nike Finance : Developed change management strategy for global implementation of margin optimization system. Established, trained, and led global group of change agents to prepare organization for change initiatives in multiple countries. Conducted stakeholder management and developed/executed engagement plan to ensure adoption of new system.

Nestlé – Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Acquisition : Developed and executed change management strategy and culture initiative plans for the acquisition of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream and Kraft Pizza, impacting 10,000 employees to ensure a smooth integration into Nestle culture, processes, and systems.

Pacific Gas & Electric : Provided change management consulting for company for implementation of new resource management tool to improve alignment of skills of employees to job needs and growth plans.

HP-Compaq Merger: Developed and led stakeholder analysis for merger as well as workshops for cultural integration for the combined entity and all employees.

Provided Change Management Consulting to General Motors, Universal Studios, Sony Pictures and Silicon Graphics.