Leading Change Training

Leading change involves more than simply reducing resistance, but creating an awareness of the challenges and responsibilities faced as the initiative moves forward. Integrate the detailed change leadership models into training that promotes initiative and enables advancement.

Jeffrey and Linda Russell are the founders and co-directors of Russell Consulting, Inc., headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. For more than 15 years Jeff and Linda have provided consulting and training services in such areas as leadership, strategic thinking and planning, change implementation, employee quality of worklife surveys, organizational development, performance coaching, and performance management. Their diverse list of clients includes Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, social or nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.

Jeff has a bachelor or arts degree in humanism and cultural change and a master of arts in industrial relations, both from the University of Wisconsin. He serves as an ad hoc faculty member for the University of Wisconsin, teaching for the Small Business Development Center, the Wisconsin Certified Public Manager Program, and a number of other certification programs with the University of Wisconsin campuses. Jeff is a frequent presenter at local, state, regional, and international conferences.

Linda has a bachelor of arts degree in social work and completed graduate work in rehabilitation counseling. She specializes in designing and implementing quality of worklife surveys and in facilitating team and organizational development interventions.

Jeff and Linda have written three other books, including Managing Change (1998), and publish a journal of tips for leading organizations, Workplace Enhacement Notes.

With a company vision of helping to create and sustain great organizations, Russell Consulting, Inc., integrates theory, research, and "real-world" experience in their daily consulting and training practice. Jeff and Linda help their clients find practical management solutions to a challenging world that too often offers strategies that are long on hype and short on substance.