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Avneet Jolly

About the Session

Change Management & the Role of Communications

This session will focus on some of the lessons Mr. Jolly has learned about change management as a consultant or leader in dozens of transformation initiatives, and more recently as an entrepreneur. Most of the popular theories of change fail to take into account human and organizational realities. We’ve all read the the “8 Steps to Organizational Change” and “10 Reasons Why Change Fails” but few theories account for “reality” – in which some people just get tired, some are just not smart enough, some really don’t care and almost everyone makes big mistakes. We'll cover:

Success stories of organizations that have recognized – and overcome – these realities
What communication professionals can do to increase their impact in a change initiative
Three roles communicators can play – the writer, the project manager and the CEO-implementer, and the different ways in which each of these roles makes a difference

Biography

Avneet Jolly, Founder and CEO, Insightory Inc. Mr. Jolly has nearly 15 years of management and HR consulting experience, and he is a frequent speaker on topics of global sourcing and change managment. Insightory Inc. runs the leading website for sharing management insights and also provides management consulting services to corporations of all sizes.

Until July 2007, Mr. Jolly was the North America Practice Leader for Global Sourcing (Globalization) Consulting at Hewitt Associates. He was responsible for helping clients achieve multi-million dollar efficiences, or create major new markets through globalization programs. Specific areas of intervention included sourcing strategy, labor cost analysis, location selection, process migration, and project and change management. He was a frequent speaker on the topics of global sourcing and change management.

Prior to this role, Mr. Jolly was a Senior Consultant and Project Manager at Hewitt, working on a wide range of projects including organization design and restructuring, staffing models and HR program design. Mr. Jolly has experience in a variety of industries, including information technology, energy, manufacturing, financial services and healthcare, and has worked with companies of all sizes, ranging from small, 10-person start-ups to the largest companies in the world, including three of the "Fortune 10."

Mr. Jolly has lived and worked in U.S., Europe and Asia. He holds an MBA from XLRI and a BA in Economics from Osmania University (both in India). Visit insightory.com.