Craig Kamins, JD, MBA, spanning multiple decades in global consulting companies, Korn Ferry, Gallup, and McKinsey, extends the firm’s leadership advisory services, broadening its ability to help executive leaders navigate culture change.
Leveraging Culture to Enable Organizational Change
Mr. Craig Kamins will serve as the head of the firm’s new Culture and Change Management Practice. Carpe Diem sees this as an area of vital importance to clients as they attempt to navigate through another period of dynamic change.
For a few years, organizations framed their people strategy around their response to COVID. Then they had to deal with the recession, return to work and its aftermath, and now the onslaught of artificial intelligence. Organizations with healthy and supportive cultures are in the best position to weather the storm.
Helping Leaders Properly Assess and Map Culture Change – at Scale
Mr. Kamins has helped Boards, CEOs, and CHROs achieve their short, near, and long term objectives with a proprietary sequence of building blocks that drive organizational change at scale, through a focus on culture. His legacy of culture and change management engagements had Mr. Kamins partnering closely with functional leaders spanning Commercial, Marketing, IT, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Total Rewards, and Organizational Design. Craig’s deep expertise assessing and measuring current and future states of culture brings our clients better clarity for road mapping change,” said DeFazio.
Building Leadership Capability Faster
A developed competency of Mr. Kamins is closely tied to the core skills of Carpe Diem Partners: the assessment and development of leadership, aligning leadership, and most importantly, helping quickly and successfully drive execution. The latter is a core differentiator of the firm. “Clients continue to value the range of leadership services Carpe Diem provides its leaders, allowing for vendor consolidation and lower client costs,” said DeFazio.
“Craig’s clients will value the multi-decade operating experiences of his colleagues. Here, he can work side by side with subject matter experts who have faced repeatedly, complex change initiatives in former operating roles. Those practical experiences in execution married with Craig’s domain expertise takes risk off the table for clients,” said DeFazio
“I am particularly excited to work with the firm’s executive search and leadership development partners. Often in executive search, we think of fit to role. I want to help clients explore a candidate’s fit to role AND culture and to help identify developmental opportunities that will allow a new leader to more quickly adapt to the culture and to be an effective agent of change themselves.”
The Assessment of Culture – Three Decades of Subject Matter Expertise
Mr. Kamins is a frequently published author and speaker. His articles include: Four Rules for Successful Change Management, How to Make Training a Catalyst for Real Change, 3 Daily Actions that Set the Tone for Workplace Culture, and The Pandemic’s Surprising Impact on Employee Engagement and Enablement.
Kamins received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Northwestern University. He holds a Juris Doctorate Degree from Pepperdine University School of Law and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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