An executive with her operations team in a city office on go-live morning.

Change management for mid-market go‑lives

Your people will be trained.
Will they be ready?

Your SI gets the system live. I make sure your people can run the operation on day one, whether it’s an ERP, CRM or HR go-live or a merger integration.

  • System-agnosticReadiness across ERP, CRM and HR systems and integrations
  • One accountable leadAssociates create communications and training under my direction
  • Certified Prosci CCP and CMCP
  • WBENC certifiedHelps clients and SI partners meet supplier diversity goals

The gap

Most go-live plans treat people readiness as a training line item.

Training tells you who attended. It doesn't tell you who can do the job on day one.

Status reports track scope, schedule and budget. None of them tell you whether operations is ready.

The SI knows the system. I know your people.

2007
The year my training and readiness work began, inside ERP, CRM and HR programs
11
Industries served, including insurance, manufacturing, automotive and pharmaceuticals
4
Weeks or less from start to readiness findings
3
Phases, each scoped and approved before it starts

What we offer

Where you are decides where to start.

After go-live≤ 90 daysKickoff · 12 months

At kickoff Fits now

Project Role Readiness

Prepares SMEs, the project team, managers and sponsors for the roles they’ll play in the change, before design sessions with your SI begin.

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From design through adoption Fits now

OCM Leadership

One accountable senior lead for the people side, from the first design session through adoption. Three phases, each scoped and approved before it starts.

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90 days or less to go-liveFits now

Readiness Assessment

A 3–4 week diagnostic 90 days or less before go-live. Know, with evidence, whether people will be able to do the job on day one. Make a go/no-go call you can defend.

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Who this is for

Mid-market companies with a go-live date

I work on programs big enough to need a dedicated change lead, reporting directly to the executive who owns the date.

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Company size
$100M–$1B in revenue. 500–5,000 employees, with 250+ affected by the go-live.
Industries
Deepest experience in insurance, plus manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and automotive.
Sponsor
An executive owns the go-live and wants one accountable lead for the people side.
Initiative
Fixed go-live date for ERP, CRM and HR rollouts, and merger integrations.

How an engagement runs

Phased, with your approval at each step.

  1. PHASE 1

    Prepare

    Maps your current and future state, who is impacted and how, and where the change is most at risk.

  2. PHASE 2

    Act

    Builds communications, training and manager readiness through go-live, with a readiness read before the go/no-go decision.

  3. PHASE 3

    Sustain

    Runs two to three months past hypercare, reinforcing new ways of working and measuring adoption.

Sponsor access and go/no-go criteria are written into every engagement.

Latest insights

Readiness, one post a month

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From clients and audiences

“Unlike many consultants, Jennifer is unafraid to ‘roll up her sleeves’ and do the work, lead by doing and demonstrates focused creativity to accomplish the short-term task at hand, while keeping an eye on successful delivery of the long-term objectives.”
Brian MillerAssistant Director – New Business, Front-End Operations
“Jennifer designed and delivered training for a key enterprise initiative. The 1,000+ training surveys revealed that the content met the learning objectives while indicating Jennifer was well-received by attendees.”
Dennis UhnavyDirector, Human Performance
“Jennifer’s strategy included the development of playbooks which provided repeatable content, templates, and tools to onboard new teams to the system modules. This approach not only simplified the implementation it provided consistency in timing and messaging.”
Deb MakiSenior Operational Excellence, Business Process and Change Management Leader

For SI partners

When adoption stalls, the client blames the implementation.

Offer OCM without building a practice. I join your delivery team under your SOW, or deliver readiness assessments and training under your brand. Your client sees one team.

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The first call

Who can lead the people side? Who can do the work?

The people side means getting managers, SMEs and frontline teams ready to run the operation on day one.

Pick the quadrant that sounds like your program right now.

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