LINDA ACKERMAN ANDERSON is a co-founder and
vice-president of Being
First, Inc., a change leadership development and
transformational change consulting and training firm located
in Durango, Colorado.
Ms. Ackerman Anderson specializes in
planning for and facilitating transformational change in
Fortune 1000 businesses and the military. Linda has spoken
about her work on conscious transformation at national and
international conferences, and is known as a thought leader
and inspiring model of her message. During the past
twenty-five years, her practice has focused on strategy
development for major organizational change using Being
First’s renown nine-phase Change Leader's Roadmap. She is a
preeminent coach to senior executives and change leaders on
their change strategies and personal modeling of the changes
they seek to create in their organizations. In the past
fifteen years, she and her partner have established
themselves as pushing the envelope of leading
transformation, and changing organizational mindset and
culture as drivers of conscious transformation. She is
currently developing a leadership curriculum called “Women
as Leaders of Change,” and coaches women leaders on how to
lead transformation.
Ms. Ackerman Anderson’s client list
includes Wachovia Corporation, United Way of America, Peace
Health, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System, the
Canadian government, Intel, Shell Services International,
The Nature Conservancy world headquarters, DTE Energy, US
West, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Gas and Electric, the DuPont
Company, Kaiser Permanente, GTE, several Bell System
operating companies, ALCOA, the U.S. Army and Navy,
McDonnell Douglas, and Honeywell. In 1981, Linda formed
Linda S. Ackerman, Inc., a leading provider of change
management services and trainings in leading organization
transformation. In 1988, she merged Linda S. Ackerman, Inc.
with the Optimal Performance Institute, headed by Dean
Anderson, to form Being First, Inc.
Prior to forming her first business, Ms.
Ackerman Anderson spent four years working at Sun Company,
Inc. and one of its subsidiaries, Sun Petroleum Products
Company. During this time, she was both an organization
development consultant and Manager of Human Resources
Planning and Development. Her major Sun Oil accomplishments
include designing and implementing a corporate-wide work
planning and review system, building an extensive Management
Development Committee network, and directing a massive
reorganization.
Before joining Sun, Linda was a management
and marketing consultant with Coxe Associates, a firm
serving architectural and engineering companies. She also
served as Assistant Director of Continuing Education at the
American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Ackerman Anderson, along with
Dean
Anderson, wrote
Beyond Change Management: Advanced Strategies for Today’s
Transformational Leaders and
The
Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s
Transformation, published in 2001. She led the
development of the landmark work, the Change Process
Guidebook, a methodology featuring the nine-phase Change
Process Model and its supporting tools and workbooks. The
Guidebook has been called the most comprehensive, pragmatic
and user-friendly resource for organizations undergoing
transformational and transitional change in the world.
Linda has also published several articles,
including “Awake
at the Wheel: Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious
Change Leadership”; ”Development,
Transition or Transformation: Bringing Change Leadership
into the 21st Century”; “Transition
Management: An In-Depth Look at Managing Complex Change”;
“The
Flow State: A New View of Organizations and Leadership”;
and “Flow
State Leadership in Action: Managing Organizational Energy.”
She was one of the first to articulate the notion and use of
organizational energy as a tool for transformation. She has
keynoted at many universities, national and international
conferences, most recently at the International Organization
Development Network Conference and Linkage’s Change 2001
Conference.
Linda’s professional education includes
Columbia’s Advanced Organization Development and Human
Resources Management Program (1978-1979) and University
Associates’ Laboratory Education Internship Program
(1977-1978). She has served on the faculty of this and other
UA conferences and several university professional
development programs. Ms. Ackerman Anderson was a founding
leader of the field of Organization Transformation and
chaired the Second International Symposium on Organization
Transformation in 1984. Ms. Ackerman Anderson received her
Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Arts and Education from
Columbia University’s Teachers College and her Bachelors
degree in Art History and Education from Boston University.
Her hobbies include mask-making, cooking, snow boarding,
camping, weight lifting and participating in women’s
circles. Her most important priorities in life are her
family--husband, Dean, and daughter, Terra, and her health
and happiness.
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