Chris Rodgers - Pen Picture
| "Chris is good at helping scope out "the big picture" of change plans and steps you can take to get it on the way; getting people involved - either at management or staff level, which can be useful in kicking off change programmes; creative thinking around issues, overcoming concerns etc. His style is all about creativity, involvement etc." PLC HR Director |
Independent Consultant: Chris has been an independent consultant since August 1998. He works with senior management teams, large groups and individuals, to help them address key aspects of strategic performance, change leadership and organisational dynamics. He also lectures on the dynamics of change and organisational performance.
For a number of years, he has also worked closely with global performance development consultancy Lane4, both on client projects and providing internal consultancy on organisational change to Lane4’s own staff.
Author: Chris’s first book, Informal Coalitions, was published worldwide by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. This deals with the hidden, messy and informal dynamics of organisational change.
Previously Senior Manager in Power Generation Industry: Before establishing his consulting business, Chris held a wide range of senior positions in the power generation industry. These initially included a variety of engineering and managerial roles in power stations across the UK, culminating in that of Business Performance Manager at Drax, which is Western Europe’s largest coal-fired power station and was recently listed in the FTSE 100.
At the end of 1992, he moved to National Power’s headquarters, where he carried out a number of senior managerial roles before becoming the company’s Organisational Development Manager in 1995. The last ten years of his career with National Power, and its predecessor the CEGB, spanned the period of the industry’s groundbreaking privatisation and its subsequent commercial development – a time of unprecedented change and organisational transformation.
Qualifications and Affiliations: Chris has an MSc in Managing Change (1999) and completed an Advanced Coach Training Course in 2002. He runs the OD Innovation Network (ODiN) and is a founder member of the Complexity Society. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), a Member of the Institute of Business Consulting (MIBC), a member of the Association for Management Education and Development (AMED) and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
In December 2008, Chris was appointed to the position of Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Management at Cass Business School, City University, London.
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