Speaker Profile
CLAUDETTE ROWLEY
Claudette Rowley, Cultural Brilliance CEO, is a cultural design and change management consultant with a knack for building strategic plans and orchestrating organizational changes that boost business performance and increase employee engagement at the same time. For the past eighteen years, Claudette has consulted, trained, and coached executive leaders and management teams at Fortune 1000 companies, small businesses, and start-ups to create a pro-active and innovative workplace culture that delivers outstanding results throughout all areas of an organization.
Claudette is the creator of the Cultural Brilliance System™, author of Embrace Your Brilliance: Align Yourself With Your Unique Potential, and co-host of the globally syndicated radio show, Cultural Brilliance The DNA of Organizational Excellence™. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Michigan, is a certified coach through Coaches Training Institute and International Coach Federation, and has trained in leading methodologies in organizational development, conflict resolution, mediation, the Predictable Success business lifecycle model, and related systems. Claudette is also a certified partner with CultureTalk.

Maximizing Organizational Change: How to Manage Transitions, Dynamics and Benefits
It’s often cited that 70% of change or transformation initiatives fail (McKinsey, Kotter, Blanchard). Much of the research into these failures point a lack of planning, communication, and recognition of the impact on employees. William Bridges, author of Transitions and numerous other publications, notes that once leaders announce a change to their organization, they have already spent around six months pon..