Gretchen Asher

The Essential CEO
The EssentialCEO
January 01, 2019

You've got Change Management Superheroes in your organization just waiting to be unleashed! I'm here to help companies, and organizations within companies to develop their own Change Superheroes in-house.

Ep 7. Back to the Office Strategies.
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May 10, 2020

Ep 6. Obstacles to Working From Home
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May 09, 2020

Ep 5 How WFH Impacts Employee Loyalty & Retention
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May 09, 2020

Ep . 4c What a Remote Work Strategy Does for the Environment: It's Good to Care for Mother Nature
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May 07, 2020

Ep 4b Saving the Big Bucks: What Corporate 1000 Companies Report in Specific Cost Savings of WFH
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May 07, 2020

Ep. 4a The Dollars & Sense of Remote Working Strategies
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May 07, 2020

Ep. 3c The Results Corporate Execs Tell Us They Enjoy Because of Their WFH Strategies
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May 07, 2020

K.T.B.R. in the Days of COVID19: Ep 8 - How to Avoid Burnout While Working Remotely.
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April 11, 2020

K.T.B.R. in the Days of COVID19: Ep 7 - Ten Fun Ways to Start Your Virtual Meetings.
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April 11, 2020

K.T.B.R.in the Days of COVID19: Ep 6 - Seven Tips for Managers of Remote Workers.
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April 01, 2020

Anticipating the Workplace New Normal Post COVID-19
The Essential CEO
May 14, 2020

This information is for corporate executives and HR Executives.

COVID-19 is reshaping the corporate workplace and culture. The outbreak is radically changing how many U.S. companies operate.

The new research tells us that we aren't going back to the way things were before the pandemic. In this video series, we'll take a look at what the new normal will look like.

Do you have a solid plan for your company's new normal? Join us in this video series to learn what other companies are doing and what you can do as well.

Anticipating the Workplace New Normal Post COVID-19
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May 08, 2020

COVID-19 is reshaping the corporate workplace and culture. The outbreak is radically changing how many U.S. companies operate.

The new research tells us that we aren't going back to the way things were before the pandemic. In this video series, we'll take a look at what the new normal will look like.

Do you have a solid plan for your company's new normal? Join us in this video series to learn what other companies are doing and what you can do as well.

How to Keep The Business running During Stay-at-Home Orders
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May 08, 2020

We suddenly found ourselves working remotely for the last many weeks. We didn't have much time to prepare for the Stay-at-Home orders around the world.

Here are 8 short videos to help leaders and project managers keep their teams and projects on track while working remotely.

Ep. 3b Here's How You Can Reduce Unscheduled Absences
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May 07, 2020

The question for corporations now is could COVID-19 usher in a new ear of what the workplace will look like post-pandemic?

The answer is YES! The research tells us we aren't going to go back to the way things were before. In this series, we take the data from the top workplace research firms to help leaders understand what the New Normal may look like and how to prepare for it post-pandemic.

In this episode, we'll look at what the data tells us about how remote working lowers unscheduled absences...by a lot!

Ep. 3a Remote Workers and Productivity: It's Better than You Think
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May 07, 2020

The question for corporations now is could COVID-19 usher in a new ear of what the workplace will look like post-pandemic?

The answer is YES! The research tells us we aren't going to go back to the way things were before. In this series, we take the data from the top workplace research firms to help leaders understand what the New Normal may look like and how to prepare for it post-pandemic.

In this episode, we'll look at what employers and employees say about work productivity for remote workers and on-site workers.

Ep. 2b How Managers Can Measure the Performance of Remote Workers
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May 07, 2020

With so much uncertainty going on in workplaces across the country, I put together a helpful series on creative ways companies can get a handle on what's to come post-pandemic. In this episode, we'll look at WHY implementing a work from home strategy post-COVID-19 may be a non-negotiable for organizations:

Ep 2a The WHY of Incorporating a Work From Home Strategy Post COVID-19
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May 07, 2020

With so much uncertainty going on in workplaces across the country, I put together a helpful series on creative ways companies can get a handle on what's to come post-pandemic. In this episode, we'll look at WHY implementing a work from home strategy post-COVID-19 may be a non-negotiable for organizations..

Ep 1 Anticipating the Workplace New Normal Post COVID-19: What the Research Tells Us
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May 07, 2020

With many states reopening and so many professionals being uncertain about what the post-pandemic future holds for their company, I decided to compile the tons of research I found from credible research firms like Gartner, Gallup, Owl Labs, and Global Workplace Analytics, to make a series of videos on what to expect for our "new normal". I thought it'd be nice to share Ep. 1 with my network...

Keeping The Business Running (KTBR) in the Days of COVID19
The Essential CEO
April 06, 2020

For Corporate Leaders

We suddenly found ourselves working remotely for the last many weeks. We didn't have much time to prepare for the Stay-at-Home orders around the world. Here are 8 short videos to help leaders and project managers keep their teams and projects on track while working remotely.

The Consulting Dilemma
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January 03, 2020

Change Management Consulting is broken and it's time we change CHANGE.

I continually see organizations spending too much of their budgeted project dollars on consulting fees. It's time to get off the consultant merry-go-round. It's easy and affordable to develop internal capability.

I'm changing Change Management consulting to accomplish this.

Change Enablement Expert

Location: Virtual    Fees: TBD

Service Type: Service Offered

I’ve been a senior Change Management consultant for nearly 3 decades, working at the highest levels with Fortune 500 companies. These are some of the largest global companies, covering a broad spectrum of industries with all types of change initiatives.

My clients include Nike, Intel, MacAfee Security, Chevron, hp, General Motors, Universal Studios, Kaiser Permanente, Stanford Health Services, Camino Medical Group, Nestle, Dreyers Grand Ice Cream, United Airlines, to name just a few.

My Change Management specialties include:
- Large ERP & all technology implementations
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Global and local reorganizations
- Operations improvements
- Culture change

I’ve seen it all. As a former senior consultant for one of the Big Firms (PwC), I've led the Change Management strategy & execution activities to get your company/organization across the finish line, only to then move on out of your organization/company as soon as go-live is complete or to a new project within your company. And yes, any consulting firm’s dream is to move from project to project within the same client. Ka-ching!

And they want to staff as many consultants as possible for as many hours as possible. I don't work this way.

I’ve seen this time and time again as change consultants are utilized repeatedly; the organization doesn’t think about the dependency that is created by NOT developing in-house Change Management capability.

I feel it's a tragedy, really.?

On every global project, I direct and guide people to develop the strategies that work for their organizations and to execute the Change Management activities in other countries; Europe, Israel, India, Asia, South America, Canada, etc., all from the U.S.

For U.S.-based client work, I also guide change management teams in companies with locations across many states in this very same manner. Happily, it just requires less time zone calculation.

I’ve spent years guiding and directing client's “in-the-trenches” employees to execute the Change Management activities from across the world via video conferencing. The end results are growing a client's internal Change Management capability within their own workforce.

I'm here to help companies and organizations within companies to develop their own Change Superheroes in-house. Let's get to it!

Why I want to change Change...

It's long overdue that organizations become change-enabled. I want to help as many as possible build strong in-house capabilities to move up the Change Management maturity model; from at the lowest level employing change management to ad hoc projects all the way incorporating Change Management tools as "the way we do business."

It's been proven for decades that when Change Management is done effectively, the result is faster speed of adoption, a greater level of proficiency, and higher utilization rates. This triumvirate drives higher ROI for organizations.