Christopher Grivas

Background

About Christopher Grivas

I am an Organizational Development professional and author with more than 25 years of experience improving business results by using organizational change and creative thinking methods. Specialties: Organizational ChangeAppreciative InquiryAccelerated Team Formation Cultural challenges of M & AOrganizational DesignOrganizational assessment through surveys and focus groupsNew product development and adoptionFacilitationCoachingLeadership DevelopmentSome RESULTS I’ve achieved:• Significantly contributed to reducing turnover 50% in 10 months through employee-engagement activities focused on improving work experience.• Led an organizational change initiative that increased the employee net promoter score for a organization by 9% in one year.• Increased employee engagement by 4% during times of turbulent change through interpreting engagement survey data and counseling executives through addressing key themes.• Increased adoption of organizational changes by surfacing resistance and accommodating it within implementation and communication plans. • Coached leaders to individual successes including building better teams, creating succession plans, developing better relationships and meeting their own career goals• Advised and counseled C-level teams on the development, communication and implementation of organizational strategy• Designed and facilitated sessions for building consensus across silos and accelerating team developmentMy book,"The Innovative Team" with Dr. Gerard Puccio, was published in 2012 by Wiley. It showed how people of different problem-solving preferences interact while getting work done. Teams with a shared understanding of their thinking styles can accelerate their success.My dissertation,"Organizational Design for Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility," was completed in 2022. I learned that organizations that are committed to social responsibility were more profitable over the long term than those that were not. Consciously applying organizational design practices along side change management efforts rewires and transforms organizations to be better for their employees, their community, and all their stakeholders.