Leading Change: A Practical Guide for Change Agents

＂Dr. Peggie Koon is one of those rarest of change agents who can strike an amazing balance of encouraging different perspectives, being truly inclusive, while challenging the status quo. She can best be described as an innovator, visionary and an exceptional leader. Dr. Peggie has a proven track record of breaking down barriers - both cultural and organizational. When she talks, we can all benefit by listening and opening our minds.＂ Jim Keaveney, Emerson Process Automation Solutions ＂Smart, not afraid to tackle decades of doing things the same way.....as good at interacting with operations guys to develop the needed systems as interacting with owners and bankers explaining what we were trying to do and how we were changing the culture....I never had a more dedicated change agent in my employ.......＂ John L. Barnes, Former CFO, Graniteville Company ＂Transformational change, within any organization, can be either exhilarating or terrifying (or both, depending on one’s perspectives) including being on the roller-coaster journey that follows. I have now had the distinct privilege of both observing and collaborating with Peggie on a dynamic change process in which Peggie provided strong leadership throughout the transformational journey. In her role as former President of an international association of technical and trade professionals (ISA), Peggie identified the need for strategic and tactical change; then enlisted change agents; and jump-started the change process by facilitating an intervention summit retreat of dozens of leaders, volunteers, and executive staff management＂ Nelson Norden, Norden Analytics; Former Global Business Development Director, Emerson Automation Solutions Dr. Koon is an executive strategist, change leadership and management consultant and coach. She is the CEO and Founder of Leading Change, LLC., former Vice President at Morris Communications, Augusta, GA (USA), 2014 President of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and 2015 Chair of the Automation Federation (AF). She has more than 30 years of change leadership experience in the automotive, aerospace, nuclear reprocessing, insulating products, textile, and media industries, including IT & OT. Dr. Koon received a B.A. in mathematics from Smith College (Northampton, Mass, USA), completed 2 years of graduate study in Applied Statistics in the School of ISYE at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA USA), and received a PhD in MIS from Kennedy Western University ( Cheyenne, WY USA).