Kasia Ganko-Rodriguez
Change Leader, People & Culture Consultant, Trusted Advisor
Chicago,IL
Summary
Dynamic and outcome-focused leader with 18 years of experience spearheading transformative people and culture initiatives across numerous industries and organizational types, including for-profit companies and not-for-profit organizations. Expert in designing and implementing impactful change initiatives with strategic stakeholder engagement to achieve Missions and goals. Proven record of creating buy-in, commitment to change, and ownership through alignment processes and intentional collaboration. Adept at relationship building, leading through influence, and navigating complexity and ambiguity.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
3
3
Languages
5
5
year of post-secondary education
Work History
Engagement Leader and Executive Consultant
The Kaleidoscope Group
01.2019 - Current
- Leading thought partner, strategic advisor, and engagement leader to Kaleidoscope's clients across multiple industries including financial, insurance, healthcare, government, consumer products, private equity, retail, construction, facilities & property management, academia, and non-profits.
- Oversees 10+ client engagements and leads internal teams and external associates in client deliverable execution.
- Go-to resource for complex, high-profile client engagements related to sensitive topics, difficult issues, and intricate people & culture change mgmt. efforts.
- Serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives on confidential issues at an intersection of business, people, and culture.
- Successfully led a change effort at a large insurance company to establish alignment and buy-in at an Executive level around a new culture initiative, resulting in sustainable and scalable long-term commitment.
- Implemented an effective change management effort that reset negative attitudes at a midsize organization, resulting in renewed excitement, broader buy-in, and alignment of key stakeholders around strategic outcomes.
- Led development of a new educational series that resulted in repeat sales for years in a row, generating almost 1 million $ in revenue.
- Designed business-embedded Change Ambassador infrastructure focused on enhancing employee experience and marketplace growth, for a global consumer product organization, leading to sustainability of effort and ownership within business units.
- Effectively recalibrated multiple Employee Councils and BRGs, resulting in their increased effectiveness, strategic focus, and role alignment.
- Developed and executed a successful change management strategy that aligned polarized stakeholder groups around a shared vision and desired outcomes.
- Regenerated commitment to an organizational change initiative in a large organization with a history of 10+ years of 'effort starts and stops' that led to enterprise-wide buy-in, and adoption of culturally competent methods to serve a broad pool of clients.
- Effectively pivoted and adapted Kaleidoscope's approach to change strategy development during the pandemic, enabling sales and continued engagement.
- Successfully coached client partners through evolving their people, community, and culture change initiatives to mitigate risk, manage ambiguity, and ensure Mission/business impact.
- Developed tailored programs for global and US-based HR / People and Culture Teams enhancing their ability to infuse organizational change initiative across employee life cycle.
Senior Consultant
The Kaleidoscope Group
02.2013 - 01.2019
- Promoted to Senior Consultant based on top performance to lead 8-10 simultaneous client engagements.
- Implemented tailored change adoption processes creating buy-in across stakeholder groups for people and culture change initiatives.
- Upskilled client stakeholder teams in Change Agent skills.
- Designed and delivered a top-ranking Leadership Program, for a Fortune 500 client partner with operations in the US and Europe resulting in repeat sales and firm engagement for 5+ years.
- Created urgency for change in client partner settings through effective data reporting and assessments.
- Launched effective employee councils equipping them with a sustainable structure, increased competence, and strategic plans around the organization's change effort.
- Upskilled client talent teams to effectively deliver education, serve as change ambassadors, and coach others on people, culture, and community efforts.
- Collaborated with internal and external client teams to develop long-term strategic people and culture change initiatives that were successfully implemented in client settings.
Consultant and Senior Facilitator
The Kaleidoscope Group
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Promoted to lead 3-5 simultaneous client engagements while supporting 5-7 engagements as a Client Services Manager.
- Oversaw global rollouts of leadership education.
- Facilitated highly ranked leadership and employee sessions in complex settings.
- Partnered with the CEO and Lead Instructional Designer on novel content development.
Client Services Manager and Facilitator
The Kaleidoscope Group
02.2007 - 12.2009
- Served as a project manager for 8-10 concurrent client engagements, overseeing resources, timeline, and workstream delivery.
- Facilitated programs weekly with individual contributors and leaders.
- Conducted research, authored articles for company newsletters, and led an internal think-tank group.
Education
Master of Arts - American Studies
Warsaw University
Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology - undefined
SWPS University
Bachelor of Arts - Teaching English as a Second Language
Warsaw University
Change Management Certificate -
Cornell University
01.2024 - 01.2025
PROSCI Change Management Certificate - undefined
Skills
Strategic Transformation
Professional Memberships
ACMP, Professional Member
Certification
Change Management
Timeline
Change Management
01-2025
Change Management Certificate -
Cornell University
01.2024 - 01.2025
Engagement Leader and Executive Consultant
The Kaleidoscope Group
01.2019 - Current
Senior Consultant
The Kaleidoscope Group
02.2013 - 01.2019
Consultant and Senior Facilitator
The Kaleidoscope Group
01.2010 - 01.2013
Client Services Manager and Facilitator
The Kaleidoscope Group
02.2007 - 12.2009
Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology - undefined
SWPS University
PROSCI Change Management Certificate - undefined
Master of Arts - American Studies
Warsaw University
Bachelor of Arts - Teaching English as a Second Language
Warsaw University
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