ChangePace consultants are seasoned and deeply experienced in building capability and ways of working for successful transformation – ways of working that help an organisation align its strategies, deliver its goals and improve performance. The ChangePace Consulting model is to work in collaboration with our clients as we navigate strategic initiative delivery together. Our work is based on the belief that it is better to ‘teach our clients to fish’ rather than ‘to fish for them’, passing on our skills and capabilities in our projects rather than creating dependency. We believe in building internal transformation programmes that do the same. In our experience this is one of the most successful strategies for long term scalability and sustainability of any change in organisations.
ChangePace Consulting
ABOUT US
Who We Are
Why Choose Us
Our clients value our honest, direct and pragmatic approach, an approach that:
- develops new capability that is scalable and sustainable. We enable our clients to own and drive their change at the right pace.
- is underpinned by a strong track record. What we do is not an experiment and we deliver capabilities that have been proven to work.
- is delivered by deeply experienced transformation consultants. We know the terrain and the challenges of organisational change.
- is tailored to address the bespoke needs of what will help our clients, rather than imposing a rigid, ‘off the shelf’ one size fits all approach.
Our Values
ChangePace Consulting is dedicated to changing how organisations change, creating new high performing work behaviours and delivering improved individual and business performance. Core to this mission we hold a set of values that guide our work with clients:
- Fairness – acting with respect and equity
- Partnership – collaborating and empowering our clients and associates
- Creativity – stimulating innovation and liberating potential
- Impact – developing self-sustaining capability for individuals and organisations
- Fun – bringing ‘serious fun’ to foster learning and breakthroughs
Our Team
Jacqui is an award-winning expert in business transformation with a proven track record of delivering improved business results. She has over 25 years of experience; the first half working as a management consultant and the second half working as an internal business transformation leader. She has experience across multiple sectors including pharmaceuticals, energy, management consulting and information services.
From 2009-16 Jacqui served as Vice President of Change and Accelerated Delivery & Performance at GlaxoSmithKline. She led the global programme to drive sustainable performance improvement through applying a unique blend of change management, continuous improvement and project management. In 2012, the programme delivered financial improvements in excess of £300m and has since developed over 2,000 internal expert practitioners with approximately 30,000 people applying the new improved way of working. During 2016, Jacqui worked in the GSK-Save the Children Partnership to enable their global strategy of becoming a high performing organisation.
Her approach is particularly impactful when shifts in mindset, culture or ways of working are imperative for business success.
Put simply, Jacqui has the ability to influence a business system and its people to deliver sustainable change and continuous improvement over time.
Jacqui is lead of the consulting team of Changepace Consulting Ltd Consulting Ltd, developing and shaping client programmes for maximum business impact and success.
Jacqui's Awards
Excellence in European OD Award
ODN Europe is the European Chapter of the profession of organisation development practitioners. Excellence in European OD. At the ODN Europe annual conference (7th – 8th May, The Roffey Park Institute, UK), the following award was presented by Michael Jenkins, Chief Executive of Roffey Park:
WINNER: Jacqui Alexander for GlaxoSmithKline: The GlaxoSmithKline ‘Accelerating Delivery and Performance’ initiative: the application of a synthesis of the best of multiple frameworks and models in use in OD, Lean Six Sigma and Project Management, underpinned by the GSK Change Framework.
Distinguishing quality: A masterful, creative and practical synthesis of current methodologies with a proven success record across the globe. The judges particularly liked the ‘Forum, Fieldwork, Feedback’ teaching and coaching approach used to implement the initiative.
To read more visit http://www.odneurope.org
Excellence in Performance Improvement Award (runner up)
The Association of Business Psychology
May 2015
Jacqui Alexander and the GSK Accelerated Delivery & Performance (ADP) team came runner up in the ‘Excellence in Performance Improvement’ at the 2015 Association of Business Psychology Awards. The Association of Business Psychology seeks to champion and progress the field of business psychology within organisations through sharing of learning, highlighting best practice (showcasing excellence via their annual awards) and building capability.
To read more visit http://www.theabp.org.uk/home.aspx
Rachel is a professionally certified coach (International Coach Federation – PCC level) with NLP and MBTi qualifications and author. In a career spanning over 25 years, Rachel has held senior positions at Departmental Head, Director and Board Trustee levels. As a leader she focused on developing high performing teams and individuals. Rachel is a preferred coach at several FTSE 500 companies from a variety of different sectors including pharmaceuticals, international banking, insurance and management consultancies.
Rachel’s style of coaching has been described by former clients as:
- Non-judgmental and realistic
- Supportive and focused upon client outcomes
- Challenging and adaptable
- Straight forward and honest
- Encouraging and motivating
Rachel has extensive experience in delivering coaching during times of change and transition, particularly when individuals:
- are addressing difficult challenges
- want to manage conflict more effectively
- want to improve the quality of key stakeholder relationships
- are feeling stressed or overwhelmed by change
In addition to managing coaching services to clients, Rachel also runs the day to day operations and Associate team of ChangePace Consulting Ltd.
Our Associates
The ChangePace Consulting associates are currently based in the UK and the US; all with extensive experience in helping complex global organisations drive change at pace at individual, team and organisation levels. Our associates have experience of living and working in Europe, North America and the Far East.
What Our Clients Say
At Save the Children, we have been incredibly lucky to have had Jacqui work for us this past year, to design and implement a global change and project management approach. Jacqui is a real change agent, who manages to bring people along without making them feel that they are being pushed. Save the Children is a complex, global organisation which is trying to resolve complex problems for children and Jacqui has been able to hit the ground running, coming in without any prior knowledge of the development sector, but by being actively curious and listening to people has made the key issues her own. I personally greatly value her coaching and commitment to me and the team. Jacqui will always be driving us to define what ‘winning’ means and encourage people to drive towards their ambitions
Janti Soeripto
I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be coached and mentored by Jacqui. She is an inspirational coach who has a unique ability to visualise and to unlock the talent in both individuals and organisations alike. Jacqui has mastered the art of helping organisations undertake and embed large scale transformative change. She manages to differentiate herself from others in this space by focussing on people and acknowledging that building inspiring, genuine trusted relationships is the key to achieving sustained organisational change.
Zahed Kamathia
Rachel is fantastic to work with. She brings perspective, energy and suggestions that lead to quick and sustained changes. What’s incredible is how natural and seamless it is working with Rachel and what’s valuable is her focus on the agreed goals which you can be confident WILL be achieved.
Ben Wales
Rachel is an excellent coach. During the time I worked with her, she consistently received very positive feedback from clients who were able to get real change and enhanced performance as a result of her coaching. Rachel was one of a group of coaches I hired to provide performance coaching in a development program. Rachel contributed creative and expert input to help improve and shape the coaching model for this program, so that it was of the highest standard. I highly recommend her.