Chris Vokaty

Chris Vokaty, a talent maximizer and dynamic leader has an impressive history of surpassing ambitious goals that transform businesses through a focus on engaging and developing people in fast-paced, competitive and high growth cultures.  With the ability for devising and executing on creative strategies, he crafts high-potential and motivated teams by leveraging expertise in human capital innovation and organizational change.

Chris started his career as an organizational change executive more than 15 years ago. Early on, he focused on marketing, sales, and operations leadership. Chris built new departments from the ground up, turned around performance, and steered teams, regions, and entire organizations to new heights of collaboration and profitability.

Chris shifted from sales and revenue optimization to human resources, learning, and leadership development. This was a natural transition because of his singular obsession—to place people at the center of everything. His business acumen and experience added to the depth of understanding what employees need to realize success.

In his role as Head of Talent Development for Spectrum Enterprise, Chris had a major impact on the merger of three companies into one $2B enterprise. Focusing on their most competitive asset, their employees, Chris built a comprehensive change management strategy to support their high growth culture, fostering adoption of new business strategies and initiatives to maximize business outcomes.

Chris is consultative leader who parlays people expertise, change leadership and innovation in organizational development, employee engagement, performance and talent development, organizational life cycle, coaching, mentoring, communication and analytics. Chris believes it’s not just the large initiatives that have an impact, but in the small interactions with employees every day that drivees engagement and adoption as a competitive advantage.

Highly skilled in transforming businesses through cultural and human capital implementations, Chris is a resilient and agile leader in navigating change and challenges by leveraging communication, influence, decision-making, change management and presenting in connecting the dots to align human capital strategy, people, activities and accountability for business effectiveness across the organization. He excels in spotting opportunities while creating strategies and delivering on those strategies through teamwork, collaboration and perseverance.  

Michael Green

Michael Green is a Prosci-certified change practitioner and a change management consultant with Esri, where he champions transformative thinking about the need to address human impacts of technology-driven change. Michael is passionate about helping public and private-sector organizations apply change management best practices to support successful enterprise deployments of GIS technology. Previously, Michael was training sales manager at Esri, where he introduced strategic workforce development plans aligned with executive vision and scaled to meet unique business objectives. He holds an MBA with an emphasis in GIS from the University of Redlands.