Embracing Organizational ChangeDustin Howard, CISSP
Vice-President, GRC Services
Change: “you cannot run, you cannot escape”
Change: Inevitability
• Entrance Song: “you cannot run, you cannot escape” CHANGE– A Promise to Fail (local AZ Band)
• Nothing endures but change. (Heraclitus)
• Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. (Christina Baldwin)
Dustin’s assignment
• Close out the Conference
• Motivate, challenge, and send the team back with enthusiasm
• Note: Friday afternoon, after a long three days
• So what about CHANGE?!?
Start with the NEED for Change
The Stages of Change
1. Shock!
2. Disbelief
3. Self Doubt
4. Acceptance
5. Experimentation
6. Search for Meaning
7. Integration
There’s risk, fear, and possibly failure in change
Aspects of Change
People define CULTURE
CULTURE drives CHANGE
PROCESS is the RESULT
Understanding Change
• Change can be scary due to the unknown
• But the results are positive if you influence them to be
Change has a considerable
psychological impact on the human mind.
To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may
get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the
challenge exists to make things better.
(King Whitney Jr.)
PEOPLE Influence Change
Change is POWER
• This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same. – Real Live Preacher
CHANGE can be GOOD
CHANGE must have a good RESULT
How do we embrace change?
The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Michael Fry and T. Lewis
CHANGE requires LEADERS
EVERYONE is a LEADER regardless of title
Robert Cooper on Leadership
Leadership is…
The act of making a difference
Leadership is…
The ability to achieve results through people
Leadership is…
Who you are when no one else is
looking
Leadership is…
Connecting every day to your most enduring values
Leadership is…
Greatness is born during tough times and
unexpected circumstances
Making adversity your ally…
Leadership is…
Knowing that from time to time you have to look backward to see forward
Leadership is…
Excelling instead of competing
No one has to lose for you to win!!!
Leadership is…
Having an irrational sense of hope
Leadership is…
Knowing that every day you have the same number of minutes as:
Lincoln EinsteinThorea
uGalileo Mandela
Gates Mother Teresa
ANYONE
Leadership is…
Aligning your daily efforts with BIG DREAMS and
GREAT GOALS
Leadership is…
Glancing farther ahead
Leadership is…
Viewing life as a laboratory instead of a stage
Changing times are meant to be a test of spirit, not theatrics
Leadership is…
Knowing that the gap between what can be
imagined and what can be accomplished has never
been smaller
Leadership is…
Learning faster than the world is changing
Leadership is…
Constantly discovering and applying new
strengths, talents, and passions
Leadership is…
Acknowledging that every day is a battle for control
Not of the world around you, but of your response to it
Leadership is…
Envisioning how your choices and actions
today may influence the next ten years
Leadership is…
Never forgetting from how far back a human
being can come and still make a difference
Leadership is…
Knowing that your path has a purpose beyond
where it leads
Leadership is…
Knowing that the greatest risk in life is
not to risk at all
Leadership is…
Living so that when other people think of integrity, enthusiasm,
commitment, and caring,
They think of YOU
Leadership is…
Knowing you can’t play it safe,
sit this one out
Leadership is…
Valuing even thesmallest moments of
inspiration
Leadership is…
Facing the truth aboutweaknesses – first about
yourself, and second in others – and managing these
Leadership is…
Learning from everystumble and setback
No defensiveness
Leadership is…
Trusting enough to be trusted
Leadership
The TIME is NOW
Leadership
The LEADER is YOU
Leadership
If not NOW, WHEN?
Questions?
Embrace CHANGE!
Good luck!!!