Culture And Change Consultant

Summary

Join Blue Cottage of CannonDesign as a Culture and Change Consultant and develop actionable plans delivering measurable value to clients. You will source, pursue, and deliver solutions supporting organizational transformations across various markets. This role requires strong client relationship building, executive presence, and visual communication skills. You will develop client-facing solutions, lead projects, and contribute to thought leadership. Significant travel may be required. Success is measured by business development contributions, achieving minimum net-signed fees, contributing to firm growth, and maintaining project profitability.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in consulting and leadership in culture transformations across technology, start-ups, social enterprises, non-profits, and government agencies
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Deep expertise in strategy, innovation, and implementation of change and culture services in large-scale transformation programs and experience with change management related to physical facility transitions
• Ability to manage the political nature of high-investment projects
• Extensive experience presenting to clients, industry conferences, and internal leadership
• Business Development experience and proven ability to leverage a broad professional network of individuals that will help communicate our value and grow our brand and revenue

Responsibilities

• Identify, source, and position for strategic consulting opportunities that leverage Blue Cottage and CannonDesign services in any market, to innovate and bring value and benefit our clients who are interested in driving impact through change management and culture transformation
• Identify, establish and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with clients and internal partners through excellence, integrity, and reliability and in a way that grows the consulting practice and elevates the brand, while making measurable, living-centered impact
• Be a trusted advisor, demonstrate strong executive presence, and utilize visual storytelling and communication skills to inform research activities, engage users and distill insights to inform solutions
• Develop client-facing intuitive solutions (compelling dashboards, beautiful reports, and data driven visuals) that can guide client organizations to embrace change and build a culture that improves business outcomes and human experience
• Provide strong project leadership to fulfil and exceed Blue Cottage and client expectations, while successfully delivering on multiple consulting engagements simultaneously
• Elevate the firm as a leader in culture and change through thought leadership content, conference presentations, and case studies, balanced with delivering project work
• Support business development efforts as a key member of pursuit teams providing direction, leadership, and engaging collateral
• Secure individually, a minimum net-signed fee of 250K of Blue Cottage net signed fee per year and contribute to integrated project work that you assist by pre-positioning, participating in pursuits, interviews, etc
• Contribute to 10% Year-over-Year growth of Blue Cottage (grow the business, grow the team)
• Achieve minimum 15% profitability on projects you lead or in which you participate
• Achieve a balance of marketing, business development, team development and thought leadership, while hitting a billable utilization target of 65% or more (or generating equivalent value in new business and projects)
• Embrace and model living centered design ethos and competencies

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree preferred

Benefits

• Full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances
• Paid time off
• Flex-time schedules
• Remote work options
• 401k plan
• Employee perk programs
• Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses