Our Team

Prescient In Practice

We work with senior leaders by focusing on driving change to internal corporate culture, implementing strategic workforce planning, and redesigning human resource operations -- leveraging internal communications efforts, enhancing leadership pipeline development, and designing integrated talent management solutions.

Each member of our team has a deep background and proven success in structuring and leading complex internal change management initiatives, including extensive knowledge of people-related change competencies and over 75 years of combined, practical expertise in:

  • Assessment of change readiness, leadership alignment, and organizational impact
  • Change vision and strategy
  • Organizational design
  • Training strategies, and curricula and course development
  • Cultural transformation plans
  • Stakeholder management and communications to obtain awareness, understanding, buy-in, and support

Prescient Strategists assists organizations in aligning their people, processes, and technology with their business objectives and corporate goals. Our consutanting team combines their change management expertise with their additional functional experience in organizational effectiveness, talent management, and employee engagement to help drive and manage change inside of client businesses.

Team Members

Curtis

Principal and Managing Partner

Curtis founded Prescient Strategists with over 20 years of experience in post-merger integration, enterprise change management, organizational effectiveness, talent management, and performance consulting as a practitioner, researcher, author, and speaker. Known for his practical expertise, Dr. Odom is a sought after consultant to organizations in human capital strategy, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, executive coaching, cultural integration, change management, organizational effectiveness, talent management, and performance consulting to maximize organizational investments in human capital. Curtis credits his 10 years of military service in the United States Navy for his extensive experience leading and implementing large-scale change.

Jim

Partner

Jim (James) has over 20 years leading change management efforts in support of organizational and project related initiatives. Jim utilizes proven change management methods and tools to help increase adoption and minimize resistance. Jim uses his deep practical knowledge as he identifies designs, enhances, and delivers employee and leadership development programs and organizational development initiatives to reinforce and sustain client organizational effectiveness. From his many years in the corporate HR, Jim instinctively consults with managers and executive management to improve organization and/or employee effectiveness by developing sound career track strategy and talent management programs.

Erica

Director, Business Development

Erica has over 10 years of experience leading major change initiatives in Fortune 50 companies. Erica has extensive experience working with senior leadership teams on strategic HR initiatives including performance management, organizational change and talent management. As head of business development, Erica is responsible for optimizing our solutions to meet our clients organizational change needs. Every client culture is different, as such cultural integration means rolling up our sleeves to actually do the work to best understand our clients. Erica views the role of business development as building a lasting partnership based on her years of solid experience in consulting across a variety of industries including finance, educational management, higher education and telecommunications. Erica connects with our clients from the start, and works with our team of change management consultants to ensure that our clients get the optimal services and solutions to meet their unique change management needs.

Matt

Director, Change Management Consulting

Provides leadership, direction, guidance, mentoring and support to our change management consultant team. Matt uses his 15 years of practical consulting experience to foster strong, collaborative relationships with clients and business partners, and maintain active involvement in daily work of the consulting teams. Matt directs team members so as to achieve goals and improve the services provided by the firm. Matt develops change management implementation plans and owns the design of client strategy for transformational (stakeholder engagement, employee engagement, communication and leadership alignment plans) strategic initiatives. Matt quickly develops relationships and position himself in an advisory role to best understand dynamic business requirements, identify save opportunities, analyze complex variables and create strategies that are both valuable and actionable.

Spencer

Senior Change Management Consultant

Spencer has over 15 years of progressive, professional experience leading and/or supporting organizational change management projects for large-scale global projects, particularly in finance or information technology transformation. Spencer is experienced in assessing business objectives and defining change strategy to meet objectives as well as developing appropriate work plans and leading the project according to the plan. Clients frequently comment on Spencer's excellent communication skills and strong leadership and presentation skills. Spencer brings with him experience from working across the areas of leadership development, change management, corporate communication, and integrated talent management.

Briana

Change Management Consultant

Briana brings to the team her 10 years experience consulting in all aspects of change management including: developing change management plans, developing change acceptance strategies, culture assessments and culture change planning. Briana has worked with clients in the areas of leadership alignment, change messaging and communications, stakeholder assessment and analysis, change readiness assessments, and change management training design and development. Briana has practical experience in connecting with internal/external stakeholders, and client outreach communications using multiple social media platforms.

Robb

Change Management Analyst

Robb has over 10 years experience in back office support in the successful leading of change initiatives. He drives the strategy and execution of this change, including creating transparency and action plans for the planned change. Robb supports the change management consulting team through coordination with project leaders and support teams for the successful deployment of the project and the required short term and steady state support model. In his critical role, Robb maintains structure for the team as program manager by ensuring transparency of progress of multiple client change management efforts occurring simultaneously. Robb manages change management project plans, creates client presentations to support executive decisions on required action, develops communication plans, drafts change implementation progress reporting, and monitors change projects progress.

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