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Isolde Kanikani

Advisory PracPeople and Performance leader| VP & non executive Board ACMP | Founder FUTURE:CM | MBA | MSc. HRM | Organisation Design, Transformation & Strategic Organisational Change Management at IDNA

Amerongen, Netherlands

I help leaders move from fragmented change activity to AI-era transformation that creates measurable value.

My work sits at the intersection of organisational transformation, AI-enabled change, value realisation, operating model design and human-centric adoption. I advise organisations on how to build the conditions for transformation to succeed — not only through programmes and projects, but through the identity, governance, capabilities and value flows that make change sustainable.

I am the Founder of I:DNA and the creator of ChangeOps, focused on aligning strategic intent, transformation execution and continuous value realisation. Through I:DNA, I explore how organisations connect their external identity with their internal DNA: purpose, culture, capabilities, operating model, decision rights and leadership.

Across my career, I have led and scaled transformation and people-performance capabilities across complex international environments. My experience spans strategic advisory, practice building, executive stakeholder engagement, PMO/TMO/CMO design, AI and digital transformation, value-led adoption and global change governance.

I have worked across technology, financial services, manufacturing, public sector, defence, healthcare and professional services. I bring both strategic and practical experience: shaping transformation agendas, building change capability, designing operating models, supporting large-scale technology adoption and moving organisations from implementation to realised value.

My current focus is transformation in the AI era. I believe AI maturity cannot outpace organisational maturity. Sustainable AI adoption requires more than tools, pilots or productivity promises. It requires leadership alignment, governance, value architecture, human accountability, workforce readiness, operating model redesign and measurable outcomes.

My thought leadership covers AI maturity, human-centric AI transformation, ChangeOps, continuous transformation, value realisation, strategic CMO/PMO/TMO/VRO models, organisational change capability, future workforce design, governance, trust and accountability.

I am also an author and contributor to organisational change and transformation literature, combining executive advisory experience, academic research, board-level governance and hands-on delivery.

My aim is to help leaders ask a better transformation question:

Not simply, “How do we manage change?”

But:

“How do we design organisations that can adapt, realise value and remain human in an AI-enabled world?”

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Amerongen
Speaking Topics: Change, organisation diagnosis, change maturity and pragmatic approach to all above.

Isolde Kanikani Points
Academic 35
Author 83
Influencer 0
Speaker 31
Entrepreneur 123
Total 272

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Minimum Project Size: $10,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $300+
Number of Employees: 501-1,000
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

AI 30.01
Business Strategy 38.75
Change Management 38.25
Coaching
Culture
Customer Experience 30.04
Digital Disruption 30.10
Digital Transformation 33.00
Diversity and Inclusion
Future of Work
HR 30.40
Innovation 30.65
IT Leadership
IT Operations
IT Strategy 30.19
Leadership
Management
Personal Branding
Product Management
Startups
Sustainability

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Automotive
Building Materials, Clay & Glass
Chemicals
Consumer Products
Engineering & Construction
Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Hospitality
Industrial Machinery & Components
Insurance
Manufacturing
Media
Oil & Gas
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Real Estate
Retail
Telecommunications
Travel & Transportation
Utilities
Wholesale Distribution

Publications & Experience

3 Academic Certifications
MBA
Swiss School of Business and Management
July 12, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Masters HRM
Charisma University
July 16, 2020

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, HR

Bachelors Business Administration
Charisma University
July 24, 2018

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

1 Academic Whitepaper
Organizational change maturity
Future:CM
November 29, 2022
Sharing the outcome of FUTUR:CMs pilot research exploring the theme of Building Organisational Change maturity.

Change maturity building is an infinitely more profound topic than simply building Change Management maturity, which for the record is no small feat as many in my network will know. This topic is soon to be tackled in a more thorough research. Looking for people interested in collaborating, so pm me with interest.

Link to research outcomes: https://lnkd.in/epFb47gF
#changemanagement #change #research #business #transformation

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

2 Advisory Board Memberships
Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times
Igo Global
April 12, 2023
I was on the editorial advisory board for this book

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Measuring effectiveness organizational development strategies
Academia
July 12, 2021
I was on the editorial board for this book

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

1 Analyst Advisory
I:DNA model: Realising your intrinsic value
I:DNA
December 31, 2019

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

18 Article/Blogs
Empowering AI users: Do we need to evolve our change management strategies?
LinkedIn
October 01, 2023

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Tags: AI, Business Strategy, Change Management

Change Management 2.0
LinkedIn
October 01, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

The Adoption lifecycle
LinkedIn
August 16, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Change Management maturity vs. Change Maturity
Academia
May 10, 2023
This article is introducing the differences between building Change Maturity and Change management maturity in organisations. This is a brief introduction to a topic tackled in new research by FUTURE:CM | Change management Network called Building Change maturity, a purely practical take on the subject! Change maturity building is an infinitely more profound topic, soon to be tackled in a more thorough research. Looking for people interested in collaborating, so pm me with interest. Link to research outcomes: https://lnkd.in/epFb47gF #changemanagement #change #research #business #transformation

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Embracing people, process and technology within the 4th industrial revolution
LinkedIn
March 23, 2023

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Tags: Change Management, Digital Transformation, IT Strategy

Catching Change Resistance: Working with the root cause not the end result
LinkedIn
October 21, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Change Management and Transformation resources
LinkedIn
April 13, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Top 10 articles found during research of Change and Governance
LinkedIn
March 13, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

ChangeOps: Change during operations
LinkedIn
March 13, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Culture eats change for breakfast, but should it?
LinkedIn
March 13, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

The change management of Brexit
LinkedIn
November 24, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Disruption

Step 1: Getting ready to leap, career Switch!
LinkedIn
November 24, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Disruption

Culture eats change for breakfast, but should it? (Culture, change management, organisational behaviour, Schein, Hofstede)
Academia
October 27, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Culture as a metaphor for change
N/a
August 01, 2021
The word "culture" derives from a French term, which in turn derives from the Latin "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture. "It shares its etymology with a number of other words related to actively fostering growth," (Zimmermann). If this were to be believed, why is it then that a company’s culture is so often named as one of the big reasons why change projects are less successful? What then is the understanding of culture we all use when telling stories about companies whose culture stopped real intrinsic adoption and ate change for breakfast? For me culture has been an elusive beast, and why I am now engaging in an active search for some kind of understanding about it’s true nature. I am on a search to find out what serves both culture and change synonymously, letting us people side of change explorers delve a little deeper into this phenomenon we often underestimate. My first step is to question if there is such a thing as healthy culture and properly managed change?

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

CM:Exchange 2
LinkedIn
June 17, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Step 3: Fulfilling our potential & a metaphor for life
LinkedIn
June 17, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

CM: Exchange Prompting discussion around Change Management profession
LinkedIn
June 17, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Step 2: World grinding to a halt... ., while tackling dragons
LinkedIn
June 17, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

2 Board Memberships
Vice President of the board
ACMP
August 15, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

ACMP Global board member
ACMP
June 01, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

6 Book Chapters
ChangeOps: Strategically harnessing change for enhancing value delivery
Igo Global
October 01, 2023
Happy to share that my latest research into Creating Strategic Change and Value flow through organisations has been published as a chapter in the Book 'Innovation, Strategy, and Transformation Frameworks for the Modern Enterprise'

With a big thanks to Editors Anacleto Correia and Pedro B. Agua for including my work in their book

ChangeOps: Strategically Harnessing All Types of Change to Create Increased Effectiveness and Operational Flow of value to our customers.

Abstract
Operational flow is the life blood of an organisation and the way it delivers value to customers. Too many interruptions will not only slow down flow but can stop it all together. This is not a sustainable possibility for an organisation or the smaller units that form it. The Flow of value and change is intrinsically connected when looking to increase value outputs. Strategically using different types of change to increase flow, brings a return on investment at the project level and a cumulative ROI overall as flow brought by ChangeOps increases across the organisation in an interlinked system of influence and output.

The book is currently available via the link below and I will share the link of the chapter once it's released.

Chapter link:


Book link:
https://lnkd.in/etrCRp5b

#change #transformation #business #digitaltransformation #strategy #changemanagement #organisation #share #people #research FUTURE:CM | Change management Network Plat4mation

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Diagnosing organisations
Igo Global
July 12, 2023
Happy to share that my latest research into Diagnosing Organisations has been published as a chapter in the Book 'Measuring the Effectiveness of Organizational Development Strategies During Unprecedented Times'

With a big thanks to Editor Dr. Kyla L. Tennin, LSSWB, PMEC, MGPI, FGPI, BA, MBA, DM(Hons) for the opportunity to support on the Editorial Advisory board and be part of the book.

Diagnosing Organisations: Everything Is Vague to a Degree – You Do Not Realise Until You Have Tried to Make It Precise

Abstract
Diagnosing organisations is a chapter that explores the intrinsic relationship between organisational purpose, the people and value creation in relation to organisational structures. Without structure we can't be aware of what we are changing or monitor if we are effectively achieving our organisational purpose. Structure in the form of governance, an operating system or organisation design can be built to fight or embrace change. People can be taught to do the same. With the application of change maturity built on organisational structures and people management coupled with a search to maximise value through creating continuously adaptive organisational systems, we can equip organisations with the tools they need to not only survive but thrive. By questioning the basic building blocks of organising, this text establishes not only factors that we could measure in our diagnosis of organisations, but establishes a set of invitations that are more profound in the sense that they offer strategic choice and development of our concept of organising and organisations.

The book is currently available via the link below and I will share the link of the chapter once it's released.

Chapter link:
https://lnkd.in/eBGHWf7K

Book link:
https://lnkd.in/exjENkxt


#change #transformation #business #digitaltransformation #strategy #changemanagement #organisation #share #people #research FUTURE:CM | Change management Network Plat4mation

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Building Organisational Change Maturity
Igo Global
February 10, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Exploring the focus that Amazon inc. has on innovation as a business strategy, setting clarity around the company's present situation with the use of an in-depth PESTLE analysis to set the scene.
Academia
October 14, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Organisational behaviour, change management and motivation seen in the case study of Nokia and organisation-wide changes like mergers and acquisitions, employee psycholigical contract (ADKAR, Maslow, Hertzberg, Pink)
Academia
February 10, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

The change management of Brexit, a case study (The people side of change, Prosci, Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin, Rogers, Daniel Pink, communication strategy)
Academia
October 01, 2020

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

1 Founder
Future:cm change innovation network and community
Future:CM
October 01, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Innovation

1 Membership
ACMP Membership
ACMP
October 06, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

1 Panel
Leading teams in times of relocation
ACMP webinar series
July 20, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

4 Profiles
ACMP Connect
ACMP COnnect
August 15, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Google Scholar Profile
Google Scholar
November 30, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Academia profile and following
Academia
October 01, 2020

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn
April 18, 2013

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

8 Speaking Engagements
Future proofing the PMO
Impact Summit
October 01, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Project Management

Future proofing the CMO
Change Management Review and ACMP
October 01, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

OCM Delivery that brings intrinsic value
ACMP
October 01, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Customer Experience

'WIIF Organisations building Change Maturity.
ACMP'S global conference
May 18, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Future of the change management profession
LinkedIn
February 28, 2023

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Personal Leadership and influence during change
ACMP Master class
October 18, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

ChangeOps for project managers
The PMO leader
October 18, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

Orientation change management
ACMP webinar series
October 12, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

2 Webinars
FUTURE:CM Webinar: Orientation Change Management 2
FUTURE:CM
October 10, 2022

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

FUTURE:CM Webinar: Orientation Change Management 1
FUTURE:CM
August 23, 2021

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Tags: Business Strategy, Change Management, Digital Transformation

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