Embracing Organizational ChangeDustin Howard, CISSP

Vice-President, GRC Services

Change: “you cannot run, you cannot escape”

Change: Inevitability

• Entrance Song: “you cannot run, you cannot escape” CHANGE– A Promise to Fail (local AZ Band)

• Nothing endures but change. (Heraclitus)

• Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. (Christina Baldwin)

Dustin’s assignment

• Close out the Conference

• Motivate, challenge, and send the team back with enthusiasm

• Note: Friday afternoon, after a long three days

• So what about CHANGE?!?

Start with the NEED for Change

The Stages of Change

1. Shock!

2. Disbelief

3. Self Doubt

4. Acceptance

5. Experimentation

6. Search for Meaning

7. Integration

There’s risk, fear, and possibly failure in change

Aspects of Change

People define CULTURE

CULTURE drives CHANGE

PROCESS is the RESULT

Understanding Change

• Change can be scary due to the unknown

• But the results are positive if you influence them to be

Change has a considerable

psychological impact on the human mind.

To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may

get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the

challenge exists to make things better.

(King Whitney Jr.)

PEOPLE Influence Change

Change is POWER

• This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same. – Real Live Preacher

CHANGE can be GOOD

CHANGE must have a good RESULT

How do we embrace change?

The more things change, the more they remain... insane. Michael Fry and T. Lewis

CHANGE requires LEADERS

EVERYONE is a LEADER regardless of title

Robert Cooper on Leadership

Leadership is…

The act of making a difference

Leadership is…

The ability to achieve results through people

Leadership is…

Who you are when no one else is

looking

Leadership is…

Connecting every day to your most enduring values

Leadership is…

Greatness is born during tough times and

unexpected circumstances

Making adversity your ally…

Leadership is…

Knowing that from time to time you have to look backward to see forward

Leadership is…

Excelling instead of competing

No one has to lose for you to win!!!

Leadership is…

Having an irrational sense of hope

Leadership is…

Knowing that every day you have the same number of minutes as:

Lincoln EinsteinThorea

uGalileo Mandela

Gates Mother Teresa

ANYONE

Leadership is…

Aligning your daily efforts with BIG DREAMS and

GREAT GOALS

Leadership is…

Glancing farther ahead

Leadership is…

Viewing life as a laboratory instead of a stage

Changing times are meant to be a test of spirit, not theatrics

Leadership is…

Knowing that the gap between what can be

imagined and what can be accomplished has never

been smaller

Leadership is…

Learning faster than the world is changing

Leadership is…

Constantly discovering and applying new

strengths, talents, and passions

Leadership is…

Acknowledging that every day is a battle for control

Not of the world around you, but of your response to it

Leadership is…

Envisioning how your choices and actions

today may influence the next ten years

Leadership is…

Never forgetting from how far back a human

being can come and still make a difference

Leadership is…

Knowing that your path has a purpose beyond

where it leads

Leadership is…

Knowing that the greatest risk in life is

not to risk at all

Leadership is…

Living so that when other people think of integrity, enthusiasm,

commitment, and caring,

They think of YOU

Leadership is…

Knowing you can’t play it safe,

sit this one out

Leadership is…

Valuing even thesmallest moments of

inspiration

Leadership is…

Facing the truth aboutweaknesses – first about

yourself, and second in others – and managing these

Leadership is…

Learning from everystumble and setback

No defensiveness

Leadership is…

Trusting enough to be trusted

Leadership

The TIME is NOW

Leadership

The LEADER is YOU

Leadership

If not NOW, WHEN?

Questions?

Embrace CHANGE!

Good luck!!!