Alan Cay Culler
Alan Cay Culler is a management consultant with 37 years of experience, specializing in strategic leadership and change. Alan has worked with name clients in many industries. He has taught in executive education programs at several universities including The Wharton School, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Alan has worked for 5 consulting firms including Gemini Consulting where he rose to be the head of the leadership and organisational practice, and Katzenbach Partners, a start-up, McKinsey spinoff, which combined strategic analytics with organisational consulting. In 2014 Alan founded The Results-Alliance, a confederation of independent consultants and small firms that help companies implement sustainable change, mostly through initiaves of integration, innovation and continuous improvement, www.results-alliance.com
So you want to know how to influence organisational change? I think that the first time I was called the “change guy,” it was a thinly-veiled insult. “OK everybody listen up. This is Alan; he’s the change guy. He’s gonna help us change.” The implication was that management had hired me and I was there to change a recalcitrant workforce. Of course, that’s nonsense. It is impossible to change someone else. That’s one of the reasons the divorce rate is as high as it is.
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