Linda Ackerman Anderson is co-founder of Being First, Inc., a consulting, training and publishing firm specializing in change leadership development and organizational change, specifically transformational change for Fortune 1000 businesses, government, the military, and large not-for-profit organizations. Linda is a masterful change strategist and speaks about leading conscious transformation at national and international conferences. She is known as an inspiring model of her message who devotes herself to teaching others the best practices of organizational change that she has developed from over thirty years of being a coach to senior executive change leaders. Key areas of her consulting specialty include assisting senior leaders to sort through the chaos of transformation to develop change processes that produce extraordinary business outcomes while simultaneously transforming organizational culture. She spends a significant amount of her time developing conscious change consultants and equipping them with the insights and methods to become experts in their fields.
Dean Anderson is CEO and co-founder of Being First, Inc., a change leadership development and transformational change consulting, training and publishing firm. Mr. Anderson coaches and consults to executives and senior consultants of Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and large non-profit organizations.
Mr. Anderson is known as a masterful change strategist, insightful speaker and author, and no-nonsense trainer. As a change strategist, he assists clients to design and implement transformational change that simultaneously delivers breakthrough results, increases organizational change capacity and capability, and establishes a high performing, co-creative coporate culture that unleashes the human potential in the organization. His training specialty is developing leaders and consultants into conscious and competent change leaders who can intelligently lead their organization through the challenges of complex transformation. Jim Kouzes, best-selling author of The Leadership Challenge, calls Mr. Anderson and his partner, Linda Ackerman Anderson, “the leading authorities on change leadership and organization transformation.”