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“If we believe that helping organizations, teams and individuals to change is ultimately about changing behaviors, then our jobs as change agents is to open them up to new ideas, assumptions, beliefs and experiences that will shape those new behaviours. The most successful way to do this is through dialogue or more accurately, conversations. This means that the smallest unit of change is a conversation”

RON SCHWARTZ

Change management

Ron is a highly experienced corporate change agent with over 20 years of experience helping leaders, teams and organizations improve their effectiveness and performance. His work in organizational design and alignment has extended from mature multinationals to early stage startups.

EXPERTISE

  • Organizational change and alignment
  • Culture shaping
  • Improving team effectiveness
  • Leadership development and personal effectiveness

INDUSTRIES WITH DEEP EXPERIENCE

  • Retail
  • Financial services
  • IT/SaaS

20 years of experience  •  5  years consulting experience

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Client Quotes

“I had the pleasure of working with Ron on an extended engagement over approximately 24 months. He has an uncanny ability to establish trust, be direct and transparent all while being objective with the outcomes in mind. Our business saw a complete turnaround and 18 months of the best success in the 40+ year old brand’s history.” Chief People Officer, Large Retail Brand

“Ron’s personal touch and consultative style worked well with our leadership team. The end result was a reversal of a negative business trend with eight consecutive quarters of positive comp store growth.” SVP and General Manager, Large Fashion Retail Brand 

“I first worked with Ron 10 years ago. He genuinely cares about his clients and is passionate about improving business results.  I still use the lessons I learned from the time we worked together and believe he’s made me a better business leader.” Finance vertical leader, IT company

Consulting Spotlight

Ron worked with an industry leading retailer with sales in excess of US$2b that was struggling with the consequences of 8 years of consistent decline in traffic, sales and employee engagement and the threat of online disruption. He partnered with the leader and his executive team to implement a new management system and change cultural norms and expectations. The result of these efforts was a complete turnaround of performance with increases in traffic, customer conversion, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, revenue and comparative sales.

Ron worked with a boutique funds management business, with $38b in funds under management, that was growing successfully, but had aspirations to unseat an industry encumbent and expand into new global markets. The CEO, COO and Board all leveraged Ron’s guidance while designing and implementing a new strategic planning and execution process, stakeholder engagement protocols and cultural change efforts. The result of this effort was a threefold increase in total assets under management in a five year period,and a leading position influenceing global policy in their specific asset expertise all while successfully improving employee, customer, investor and shareholder engagement and satisfaction.

Mature businesses: Luxottica Optical Retail USA (Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Sears Optical and Eyemed), Crown Casinos, Bayer, IFM Investors, CSC

Startup, Scaleup or PE backed growth businesses – CoverGenius, 2020Onsite, CLEAResult, Easy Aerial

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