Michael Kutner, Organizational Change Management Consultant
Since 1995, Michael Kutner has helped Fortune 100 companies and other businesses successfully implement organizational change management strategies. He creates plans that support employees, clearly communicate goals, remove uncertainty, and ultimately help companies attain 100% of their change objectives.
J&J Case Study
Michael Kutner and Distilled Leadership helped Johnson & Johnson “build the plane mid-flight” to streamline their clinical trials — an organizational change that affected 2,000+ employees over three continents. Find out how in this case study.
Organizational Change Management Consultant Services for Philadelphia and Beyond
Preamble: Companies across the United States including Fortune 100 corporations recognize Michael Kutner at Distilled Leadership as one of the leading organizational change management consultants working today. Michael’s unique blend of knowledge, expertise, and personality will help your company through any organizational change. He’s led Change Programs large and small, from single site-impacts to transformations with global-scope and thousands of employees and $200-million impact. He designs a customized strategy to help you support your leaders and employees through the transition process. The results will be faster adoption, higher morale, and a more successful implementation no matter what change you’re experiencing.
Your Change Programs should deliver an ROI. And with Distilled Leadership, they do.
“Michael is fun to work with and infused every interaction with energy...”
“Michael is a delight to work with. He seamlessly weaves together his decades of experience in leading change along with his background as an executive coach to deliver a flexible approach that met our needs. Michael quickly gained trust with our team by listening closely, internalizing our corporate culture, and understanding the circumstances of our project, all of which he used to design and implement a bespoke change leadership plan. On top of that, Michael is fun to work with and infused every interaction with energy.”
- Lauren, Director, Global Data Privacy, at a global life sciences company
Helping You Turn an Uncertain Future into an Exciting Adventure for Your Employees
Almost all corporate cultures are resistant to change – even cultures that emphasize innovation such as cutting-edge industries like tech and biomedical. That’s because at a personal level, change brings uncertainty including questions about how impending organizational changes will affect:
Job security and performance expectations
Job title security (will my role in the company change?)
Leadership Impact (is my scope of influence growing or shrinking?)
Day-to-day life (does this mean no more free coffee in the break room?)
Reporting relationships and hierarchy (who will my boss be tomorrow?)
...and possibly many other questions that add anxiety, tension, and uncertainty to the workplace. It’s the reason why 50-70% of organizational change plans fail to meet all of their objectives.
But with the right strategy, planning and communication, you can turn uncertainty into enthusiasm within your company for most types of change*. That’s where Distilled Leadership comes in: providing you with the organizational change management expertise that will help you succeed and ultimately reach 100% of your organizational change objectives. Contact Michael to find out more.
“With Michael Kutner’s leadership, professionalism, and easy-to-engage demeanor, we increased organizational awareness and removed unwarranted fear, and our employees are better prepared for our post-transformation future.”
Michael Kutner, Organizational Change Management Consultant
Since 1995, President Michael Kutner has worked with Fortune 100 companies including Johnson & Johnson, Cigna, and GE to help them implement changes company-wide or within specific branch offices and departments. He has a number of organizational change management strategies at his disposal that he will customize to suit your particular needs. These include:
Coaching to help your leadership better understand and champion organizational change
Developing communication plans, covering everything you’ve thought of – and some things you haven’t
Implementing a timeline planning based on Fisher’s Change Curve
Providing insights into how to identify champions within your company and how to address issues that cause people to resist or delay your program and overall user adoption.
Presenting you with a unified plan that will map every step from idea to implementation to reduce uncertainty and encourage excitement
With Michael Kutner’s organization change management plan, you’ll be much more likely to communicate clearly and effectively to your team, get everyone on board, and reach 100% of your implementation goals.
Organization Change Management Consulting That’s Distinctly Different
Michael Kutner offers a particular viewpoint and approach to organizational change management that you won’t find elsewhere. His system is flexible and adaptable, taking all the best practices and customizing them to your particular situation. Cookie cutter solutions never work. Distilled Leadership’s customized plan will.
No matter what type of organizational change your team or company is experiencing, Michael can help during:
New product launches
Mergers or acquisitions of a new company
Company restructuring
Periods of high growth rate
Company downsizing
Any type of change that will affect the lives of your leaders and employees and their day-to-day tasks
Michael has extensive experience working with Fortune 100 companies both as an employee/manager and as an independent consultant. He sees challenges – and solutions – from all angles, providing you with unique and relevant insights.
Based in Philadelphia but Serving the Country
Michael Kutner and Distilled Leadership is based in the Philadelphia area (Bucks County), but he is available to consult virtually or in person anywhere in the country.
Contact Distilled Leadership to learn how Michael Kutner can customize an organizational change management strategy for your company.
*There are some types of organizational change such as downsizing that will never be seen as “exciting.” But strong communication is even more important in these situations. Making the transition as easy as possible on all employees, whether they are staying or leaving, is key to smooth organizational change management.