Kathy Piestrzynski

Stretching into Program Management: a change practitioners perspective

Kathy Piestrzynski is an organisational change and transformation leader with more than 20 years experience working in complex organisational change programs. She has extensive experience introducing new organisational capabilities, including establishing organisational change functions and building organisational change capability. She is insatiably curious and loves to learn through immersive experience.

Kathy has experience establishing Program Management Offices, and has held roles in Governance and Reporting, as a Senior Project Manager and is now working as a Head of Program for CSR. Her experience provides a multi-dimensional view of organisational and transformational change and she is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and experience with interested people.

Her workshop – 

Working in organisational change, we know perspective matters, however we don’t often get the chance to walk in our stakeholders shoes. In January 2025 I took the opportunity to move from my Head of Change role into Head of Program role to really see what it was like leading transformational change wearing a different hat. 

This workshop will explore the change skills that helped me stretch into this new role and will provide insights about stakeholders from the Head of Program perspective.

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