April 9, 2019 (ATLANTA) – Management consulting firm North Highland is excited to announce that the firm was ranked by leading analyst firm ALM Intelligence as a Vanguard Leader in the Communications and Change Management Consulting 2019 report. Additionally, the firm was recognized as a Best in Class provider for the Operating System capability area.
“With its people-centric, experience design-driven approach, North Highland stands out for its ability to operationalize change strategies and mobilize client resources to achieve tangible results,” said Liz DeVito, Associate Director, Management Consulting Research at ALM Intelligence. “The Change Capability framework is particularly effective at helping clients think through and selecting the operating system that is most likely to effect change given their unique culture and maturity level.”
“Our approach begins with an understanding that people are the key to success for any project and that they’re a company’s biggest differentiator,” said Mindy Bostick, Global People and Change Lead. “Being named a Vanguard Leader highlights our efforts to create lasting and holistic solutions for clients in order to build a foundation for new behaviors and mindsets.”
Additional findings included:
- “North Highland executes on this humanizing approach by infusing the principles of agile, neuroscience, experience design, and creative communications into change management solutions, enhancing the likelihood and degree of program success.”
- “North Highland also modified its service delivery model around a new framework, Change Capability, to help clients select the type of consulting support that is most appropriate for their organization’s culture, governance model, level of change maturity, volume of change programs, and more.”
- “The move creates a more involved and interactive collaboration with the client by embedding design thinking and experience design into the development of change strategies and tactics. This approach is also at the heart of North Highland’s new service model supporting executives leading transformational change, the Experiential Leadership Enablement Method.”