Copia Growth Partners Launches New Change Management Practice
Copia Growth Partners is launching a new practice focused on change management for both large and small high technology companies. The practice deploys proven, data-driven change management processes and years of hands on operational experience so corporate leaders can navigate challenges with clarity and confidence. This allows leaders to:
Move forward with speed and alignment
Avoid potential pitfalls and blindspots
Keep your employees engaged and motivated
Gain clarity in planning and communications
Copia Change Management Practice
Per the diagram above, the Copia Change Management Practice supports 6 mandates for effective change management. This includes:
Accelerating transformation with data and a proven change management process
Activating champions with transparency and clarity of purpose
Orchestrating alignment with inclusion and clarity of roles
Motivating employees with a mission and vision of what’s possible
Evaluating progress in the change of people, process, and deliverables
Celebrating results for each small win in each functional area
The Copia Change Management practice also includes support for some of the more challenging aspects of the planning phase for change. This includes:
Comprehending change of markets, customers and budgets
Change leadership with strategic context and values
Change management process alternatives from mandating to nudging to engaging
Steve Glaser and Naresh Malik are leading the practice as change management specialists. Both are Silicon Valley executives with extensive, hands-on, operational experiences. Together, they have
Led corporate growth-focused transformations
Led start-ups through difficult growth pains
Managed through significant demand crises
Streamlined operations with slashed budgets
Aligned teams across functional silos
Restructured divisions to centralized functions
Accelerated digital transformations
Enabled fundamental shifts in business models
About Steve
Steve has a passion for change, which ultimately drove him from technology start-ups into C level strategic positions in public companies. Most recently he led a significant corporate transformation, increasing the company’s market capitalization from $7B to $20B. He also actively works with technology start-ups, serving as an Executive-in-Residence of Plug and Play accelerator, and as a Sky Advisor with Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator.
Steve combines his strengths in change management and strategy with excellent communication skills, honed through years of CEO, investor, and employee communications, CEO chief of staff, and company level marketing roles. Steve has also been recognized for his creativity.
Steve is now offering leaders access to an objective executive that has been there and done that while infusing the latest best practices for change management, and creative solutions to each unique customer challenge.
About Naresh
Naresh has lived a multicultural lifestyle in 4 countries as an executive with global players like IBM, Philips, Cisco, and Silicon Valley startups. Throughout his career Naresh has focused on building transformational ventures as an engine for future growth. The one common theme was navigating change - ambiguity, uncertainty, and complexity - both at the business and people level.
Naresh now channels his career experience into advising and coaching clients who are going through change. He passionately believes that the more successful companies will transform their cultures to master ‘the art of change’ as a core capability.
For one page brief, see https://www.copiagrowth.com/change-management