Change Enablement Lead

Children's Hospital and Health System • Wauwatosa, WI

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About The Position

Serves as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to leaders, project teams, and team members responsible for delivering organizational change across Children's Wisconsin. This role leads the design and execution of change strategies that enable adoption, influence behavioral change, minimize disruption, accelerate organizational outcomes, and sustain new ways of working. Operating at both the initiative and enterprise levels, assesses organizational readiness, identifies people related risks and impacts, develops leader and stakeholder engagement strategies, and guides leaders and team members through complex transformations. This role partners closely with operational, clinical, digital, and corporate leaders to ensure organizational change efforts align with Children's Wisconsin's mission, strategic priorities, and commitment to improving the health and well-being of children and families. Influences without authority, coaches leaders through periods of ambiguity and transformation, and contributes to building Children's Wisconsin's organizational change management capability through the development and application of consistent methodologies, tools, and practices that strengthen organizational resilience, readiness, and adaptability. Success in this role is measured not only by the execution of change activities, but by the degree to which leaders and team members adopt and sustain new behaviors that improve organizational performance and business outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with emphasis in Business, Organization Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology or related field required
• 7+ years of progressive experience leading organizational change, organizational development, workforce transformation, learning and development, process improvement, organizational effectiveness, or strategic transformation initiatives. required
• Experience influencing leaders and stakeholders across multiple levels of an organization without direct authority. required
• Experience facilitating discussions and decision making among leaders and stakeholders with competing priorities, perspectives, and organizational impacts. required

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree with emphasis in Business, Organization Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology or related field preferred
• Professional certification in Organizational Change Management, Change Leadership, Organizational Development, Project Management, or a related discipline. preferred
• 5+ years experience within a healthcare system, pediatric healthcare environment, academic medical center, or other highly regulated and mission driven organization. preferred
• Professional in Human Resources - HR Certification Institute preferred
• Senior Professional in Human Resources - HR Certification Institute preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead organizational change management advisor on highly visible, complex, and enterprise impacting initiatives.
• Partner with executive sponsors, senior leaders, project leaders, and stakeholders to integrate change management strategies into initiative planning and execution.
• Develop and implement comprehensive change strategies that address people, process, technology, culture, and leadership considerations.
• Align change management efforts with organizational priorities, strategic objectives, operational goals, and desired outcomes.
• Anticipate organizational risks, barriers, and impacts associated with change and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Influence decision making by providing insight into organizational readiness, stakeholder needs, adoption risks, and change impacts.
• Conduct change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, organizational readiness assessments, and adoption risk evaluations.
• Identify change saturation, competing priorities, organizational capacity constraints, and potential barriers to successful adoption.
• Develop and execute change management plans that include stakeholder engagement, communication, learning, coaching, reinforcement, and sustainment strategies.
• Establish baseline and future state measures that evaluate readiness, adoption, behavioral change, proficiency, utilization, and organizational outcomes.
• Analyze adoption data, stakeholder feedback, and operational performance measures to evaluate change effectiveness, identify opportunities for intervention, and inform continuous improvement efforts.
• Develop measurement approaches that demonstrate the connection between change management activities, behavioral adoption, and organizational performance outcomes.
• Coach leaders and sponsors to effectively lead change, communicate key messages, manage resistance, and drive successful adoption.
• Build change leadership capability by providing consultation, tools, practical guidance, and ongoing support.
• Facilitate alignment discussions, decision making, and problem solving among leaders, sponsors, and stakeholders with varying priorities and perspectives.
• Support leaders in addressing team member concerns, ambiguity, and resistance throughout the change journey.
• Foster leadership accountability for adoption, sustainment, and achievement of desired organizational outcomes.
• Partner with project teams, operational leaders, learning partners, and communication teams to support successful implementation and adoption.
• Monitor organizational readiness, engagement, adoption, utilization, proficiency, and sustainment throughout the change lifecycle.
• Recommend and implement adjustments to change strategies based on organizational needs, stakeholder feedback, and performance outcomes.
• Develop approaches that reinforce desired behaviors, integrate changes into daily operations, and sustain long term results.
• Partners with leaders to build engagement, confidence, ownership, and accountability for sustained behavioral and organizational outcomes.
• Provide leaders with actionable insights and recommendations that maximize adoption, value realization, and organizational impact.
• Contribute to the advancement of Children's Wisconsin's Organizational Change Management capability through the promotion of scalable methodologies, tools, standards, and leading practices.
• Mentor change practitioners, project leaders, and stakeholders in effective management and change leadership practices.
• Support the development of organizational change leadership capabilities across Children's Wisconsin.
• Capture lessons learned and identify opportunities to strengthen organizational change maturity, effectiveness, and resilience.
• Contribute to the evolution of measures that demonstrate the value and impact of organizational change management.
• Build trusted relationships with leaders across clinical, operational, administrative, and corporate functions.
• Foster collaboration, alignment, and shared accountability among leaders, project teams, and impacted stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner in support of organizational priorities and transformation efforts.
• Represent Organizational Change Management as a valued business partner across Children's Wisconsin.

Benefits

• We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior