Al Comeaux
Former VP of Travelocity and Change Champion at GE and American Airlines, Change Management Speaker
Al Comeaux is a global authority on change from the inside-out, having lived.
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Al Comeaux is a global authority on change from the inside-out, having lived, led and researched change from inside organizations large and small, disruptive and established, across numerous industries and countries.
Comeaux has held senior leadership positions championing vast strategic changes, including an IPO, reaction to a hostile takeover, a take-private/leveraged buyout, digital transformations, two startups inside large corporations, massive globalization, two 40 percent layoffs, as well as three CEO transitions, countless other executive transitions, four nationwide strikes, and too many other changes to count.
After helping lead a terribly unsuccessful change effort in the late 90s, he set out to understand why some organizations’ change efforts succeed, while most fail. This research and in-house experience make him one of the world’s most forward thinkers on what leaders must do—and how they must think—to succeed at change. Now, after this 20-year journey, he’s developed Primed for Change, a disruptive new project created to prepare leaders to steer their organizations successfully through change.
In 2020, Comeaux released his debut book, Change (the) Management: Why We as Leaders Must Change for the Change to Last, which draws on his decades of experience in-seat as a change champion and senior executive, as well as his years of research on the subject of organizational change. A bestseller that is already a textbook for MBA candidates, it offers well-told stories that illustrate the need for this fundamentally new way of thinking, finally speaking straight to senior executives who need to re-think how they manage change…and even how they lead every day.
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Topics
- Leading Change During an Inflection Point
- Principled: Bringing Heart to Drive Business Results
- The 4 Ways to Win the Change
- Think Anew: Think Differently to Drive Change
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Al Comeaux - Speaker Reel
Al Comeaux: "Pushing vs. Pulling"
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