Change Management Coach for OCM Consultants, Teams & Leads
Process, Pricing, Timeframe | Everything You Need to Know
Change practitioners play a critical role in guiding organizations through changes. However, change managers and OCM consultants face significant challenges, such as resistance, organizational politics, inadequate support, lack of cross-functional experience, the need to balance competing interests, conflicting deadlines, and overwhelming demands on their time.
A change management coach plays a crucial role in guiding both new and experienced change managers, change management teams, and consultancies to increase their successes.
Are you seeking a change coach for you or your team? If so, read on.
My Experience as a Senior Change Management Lead & Why Coaching is Important
A decade after Steve Jobs handed the reins of leadership at Apple to Timothy Cook, I was hired as an Organizational Change Consultant to establish Apple’s Business-to-Business (B2B) Sales Organization Change Management COE. I created this Change Management Office from scratch, and planned, designed, launched, and managed it.
Throughout my change management tenure, I have coached change managers and OCM consultants at Apple, Cisco, Deloitte, Accenture, State Street, Bank of New York Mellon, Fannie Mae, Intel, and other global corporations. I realize that coaching is very important as many change managers are either new to change management or are experience but would like someone to bounce ideas off from and also to have another pair of eyes review their deliverables before they deliver to their clients or organizations.
In addition a lot of change consultants have some level of change management understanding, experience, and/or certification, but do not have end-to-end hands-on change management lead experience and so OCM coaching helps them to be more equipped, empowered, and enabled to deliver top performing change management.
My approach for coaching change practitioners, leaders, and teams involves a structured, but flexible approach, and is designed to empower you to deliver the best levels of organizational change management.
Ogbe A.
Sr. Change Management Lead & Consultant
Strategic and Tactical Change Implementation
Change Management Coach
A change coach offers a wealth of knowledge, experience, templates, tools, and support, empowering organizations to navigate complex transformations successfully. Embracing the expertise of a change management coach fosters a culture of learning, resilience, a repeatable change management approach, and adaptability, ultimately driving the change manager’s success in today’s ever-changing landscape.”
Change Management Coaching is Best for Which Individuals / Groups?
Change management coaching is suited for individual change managers, change management teams within organizations, and consultancies that specialize in delivering change management to clients.
Below are examples of when you will need a change management coach to support you or your team.
- You seek a change management coach to discuss key change management and stakeholder challenges you are running into, and get advice on how to resolve these challenges, or get hands-on help to resolve these challenges and pain points
- You are new to change management, or are certified in Prosci ADKAR or other change management certification but need hands-on help in applying change management to your projects, and increasing your successes
- You or your team need hands-on OCM training and/or certification
- You are experienced in change management but would like someone more experienced to bounce ideas off so that you don’t drop any balls
- You are a consultancy and need help building your team’s change management expertise, capabilities, and successes
- You work as a consultant and need help boosting your expertise, capabilities, and successes on current or upcoming projects
- You are a change management group within a large organization and need to rapidly boost your team’s change management capabilities and successes
- You have some change management understanding, but do not have end-to-end hands-on change management lead experience and you are interested in “Change Management Lead” opportunities.
- You have recently been accepted to a new change manager role and want hands-on change management coaching prep so you don’t inadequate when delivering change management.
- You are looking for a new change management job
- And many more.
OCM Coach Pricing
What are change management coaching rates?
Change management coaching rates typically range from $150 to $300 per hour, depending on the coach’s experience and the demand for their services. Rates can vary based on location and market conditions, and some coaches offer discounts for longer commitments or multiple sessions.
Check out my rates here: Senior OCM Coach Rate Table. If you are part of a consultancy or organization, consider asking them to cover the cost of coaching. You can use the information on this page to highlight the benefits of OCM coaching, increasing their buy-in and willingness to cover the expense. If you plan to cover the expenses yourself, I recommend signing up for more coaching hours to take advantage of the available discounts—the more hours you commit to, the greater the discount.
Includes a free complimentary call to ensure the right fit
I’m committed to supporting the change management community, so my rates are more affordable. As mentioned above, I also offer discounts for change practitioners who sign up for multiple OCM coaching hours, further reducing the hourly rate.
What Is Change Management Coaching?
Change management coaching is the process in which a change practitioner or team receives 1-on-1 coaching to help enhance their change management skills, techniques, and practices, and to increase their change management successes and expertise.
A change coach helps you plan, design, deliver, and manage your key change deliverables, and provides you with personalized support based on best change practices and methodologies.
OCM Change Coaching FAQs
Question: If I sign up for your coaching change management service, is the information I share with you kept confidential?
OCM Coach: Yes, your information is always kept strictly confidential. I never share information you share with me with anyone. In addition, I offer a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to give you full confidence that everything you share with me as part our coaching and change management agreement will be kept to the highest level of confidence.
Question: How frequently can I meet with you for change leadership coaching?
OCM Coach: You can meet with me once a week, twice a week, every other week, once a month, or more.
Question: What are your Coaching for Change availabilities? What times and days can you meet with me?
Ogbe: I am based in the San Jose, California area, but you can be based in any part of the world. You can be in New York, the East Coast, Midwest, Canada, Australia, Nigeria, Kenya, France, Taiwan, the U.K., West Africa, India or in any country. My coaching sessions are normally provided between 7:30am PST and 6:30pm PST. My process is to give you access to my Availability Calendar so you can schedule a time that works best for you. I am also available during the weekends, if that works best for you.
Question: What is your change manager coaching process? Can I get help on a Prosci coaching plan?
OCM Coach: I apply a flexible approach to my coaching services. We start out with a 1-hour coaching session that is focused on understanding what areas of change management you would like coaching on. In addition, if you have been assigned to one or more mid-to-large scale projects (for example a high visibility/high-profile, challenging, or complex project, or projects that will impact a large number of users), we will discuss these during our coaching kickoff session to align on how we can best support you and coach you to increase your success with these types of projects. And yes, I can guide you to develop your Prosci coaching plan you.
Best Practices – Coach Change Management
As part of our change management coaching, I can guide you with hands-on best change management practices and framework. You may be certified in one or more change management certifications including Prosci change plan and methodologies, but being change management certified is understanding the “Science” of change management, you will also need to build the “Art” of change management which involves real world expertise, and this is a key area where a change coach can help.
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Change management coaching is the collaborative process in which a practitioner receives 1-on-1 coaching to help increase their change management successes, and to help them plan, design, deliver, and manage key change deliverables.
A Change Management Coach is an experienced and tenured change practitioner who provides coaching services and support to change management practitioners, project managers, firm leaders, and other individuals who are interested in receiving organizational change support, training, and/or help.
Change management coaching is important for organizations, change practitioners, project managers, and program leads as it enables them to increase the success of their organizational business transformations. Change coaching, support, and training empowers you to navigate change management challenges.
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