University of Washington Human Resources

Jeff Petee

Jeff Petee

PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

My deep experience in organizational transformation work allows me to work with you to fully understand your needs and facilitate successful outcomes. I have over 30 years of experience in coaching, training, and supporting leadership teams and internal change groups to increase their effectiveness in leading change.

Experience/Selected Projects

• Change manager for global deployment of a new process for managing collaboration spaces, involving new governance policies for meeting rooms and new global room booking/management tools deployed to all employees and contractors globally. Development and execution of deployment model, end-user readiness strategy, stakeholder engagement and communication, and go-live support.
• Led change management team to facilitate the implementation of a people effectiveness and organizational transition strategy for a 300+ IT infrastructure shared service organization to improve customer service and successfully implement a new organizational structure and culture. Integrated HR, communications, and organizational change and development. Resulted in stabilizing a shared service in crisis, while maintaining cost reduction targets and raising service levels.
• Led change management team in enterprise-wide implementation of new HR/Payroll system, successfully establishing first common HR/Payroll system (a platform for future HR transformation, e.g., Employee Service Center), common HR processes, and improved enterprise-wide decision making.

Credentials

• 30+ years’ work to build effective teams, help departments, business units, and entire enterprises plan
• M.A. in Education; Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior
• Former Director of Change Management for the Providence Health System; former Director of Organizational Development at the Cleveland Clinic; Project Director for Organizational Design at Rockwell (now Boeing)
• Former member of the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science – conducted experience learning workshops for leaders.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE/RESULTS

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