Maureen Gevertz
Through her 20 years in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development Maureen has worked in organizations ranging from seventy-five to 160,000 employees in ten industries and across five continents. She is an expert in large-scale change efforts with extensive experience in integration strategy, organizational and cultural change planning, and strategic communication. During her notable career, she has applied her change management expertise and organizational behavior knowledge to a broad cross-section of events ranging from initial public offerings to rapid growth, multi-national expansion, global merger and acquisitions, downsizing, outsourcing, system implementation, re-branding, new leadership assimilation, and culture transformation. Prior to launching her consulting career, Maureen excelled in a number of Human Resource Management and Organizational Development positions with Gap, Inc, Silicon Graphics, Williams-Sonoma and a peak experience as the HR Executive for Phone.com, later to become Openwave Systems. In this position, Maureen honed her alignment and organizational transformation skills while she helped grow the Company from 75 employees to over 1000 in 24 months -mainly though the acquisition of 6 companies, both domestic and international. This work included creating and implementing strategies on pre-merger due diligence; integration of key cultural, organizational and operational processes; organizational design and employee communication. She also created the functions of Employee Communication and Change Management, which included the creation and implementation of a comprehensive Global Internal Communication Strategy around key Company imperatives; she was an effective Global Leader of a team of 15 HR Professionals located in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, England, Northern Ireland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Denmark; and as the Senior Human Resources Executive she also designed and implemented company-wide programs and processes to support the Company strategy including corporate culture definition & development. Maureen designed and wrote a change navigation workbook and tool to help make change easy, and received a copywright for her work. In addition to her consulting practice, she is actively involved in Women’s Forum West, the Association for Strategic Planners, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives, is a mentor for Clean Tech Open, and volunteers for the Institute for International Education and Upwardly Global. |
Maureen Gevertz’s passion is making change and transition easy, for individuals and organizations, to enable the attainment of their goals, business strategies and desired future state.
Her approach starts with helping to develop the high-level strategy and vision of “what is possible” and ends with detailed, yet, practical plans of “how do we get there”. She focuses particular analysis on the corporate culture and underlying organizational elements that will either enable a successful change adoption or become a stumbling block. She firmly believes that alignment and a clear vision are the cornerstones to any successful change and transition.