Sustaining Change

Compelling writer and thinking practitioner, DeborahRowland, CEO of Transcend Consultancy (formerly Rowland FisherLexon Consulting, RFLC), has had over a 20 year career inorganisational change, performance improvement, and leadershipdevelopment, both as a consultant at Towers Perrin and OmegaManagement consultants, a business practitioner at Shell andPepsiCo, and a teacher and lecturer at business Schools such asHenley Management College and Bath University, UK. Principalpositions have included VP Organisational Development for PepsiCola International, NY, PepsiCo's Director of Organisation andManagement Development, and Senior Organisational EffectivenessConsultant at Royal Dutch Shell, London. Rowland, who holds aDouble First in Archaeology and Anthropology from CambridgeUniversity, now consults extensively around the globe with CEOs andtheir senior leadership teams helping them to lead significantperformance change in their organisations. Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Southampton UniversitySchool of Management, Malcolm Higgs has extensive consultingexperience with the Hay Group, Arthur Young and as PrincipalPartner in towers Perrin's Human resource management practice. hehas published extensively on leadership, team development,executive assessment, change management, and emotional intelligence- he has jointly developed a psychometric test to measure this. Amember of the British Psychological Society and a CharteredOccupational Psychologist, Higgs is also actively involved inconsulting on leadership, change and assessment with internationalcompanies, both as an individual consultant and Chairman ofTranscend Consultancy.