Valerie Ott

Valerie is an organizational consultant and business leader passionate about coaching leaders to deliver change that produces minimal business disruption and achieves sustainable results.

Valerie’s interpersonal and consulting skills shine in her ability to partner with C-suite and organizational leaders and teams to lead and make change stick. She is adept at listening to the client’s needs and identifying and implementing the right strategy to achieve the future state. Her leadership approach has proven successful in guiding teams to high performance. She has demonstrated expertise with identifying the right strategy and developing plans to consistently deliver successful change. Valerie’s deep change expertise allows her to deliver programs that delight both leaders and employees.

Valerie has over 20 years of experience providing business transformation and change management consulting services. Valerie’s client list spans a wide range of business industries including: PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz, TreeHouse Foods, Mondelēz International, Beam Suntory, Tribune Media, Bank of Montreal, Blue Cross Blue Shield, American Dental Association, Nicor, Alliant Energy, General Growth Properties, Equity Office Properties, Hewitt Financial Services, McCormick and Shmick’s, TTX and Lincoln International. She has earned several repeat clients with demonstrated success in domestic and international projects. Her professional background includes positions with large and independent consulting firms and industry leadership roles serving over 30 companies leading change initiatives for integrations, company spin-offs, shared services, technology, people, process, and culture transformations.

Certification

• Allscripts Touchworks
• Web Development

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, English with Honors, Northern Illinois University

Practice Areas

• Business Consulting
• Change Leadership
• Change Readiness
• Communication Strategy and Execution
• Employee Engagement
• Learning Strategy and Execution
• Onboarding
• Organization Alignment
• Organizational Change Management (Agile, PROSCI, John Kotter, LaMarsh, Bridges)
• Stakeholder Analysis and Planning
• Sustainment and Post-Implementation Support
• Visioning & Strategic Planning