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Organizational Change and Talent Development: An Interview With Walter McFarland

Walter McFarland Chairs ASTD’s 2013 Board of Directors

Walter McFarland [RG1] is the founder of Windmill Human Performance and a former senior vice president at Booz|Allen|Hamilton in the areas of learning, HR, and change. Walter’s clients include Global Fortune 500 organizations, international organizations, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations. He was the 2013 Board Chair of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), and was a member of President Obama’s 2012 and 2013 Rank Award Council. He is the co-author of Choosing Change from McGraw-Hill (a Soundview Best Business Book of 2014 and an Axiom Silver Medal Winner); the “Neuroscience of Motivation” in the Handbook of NeuroLeadership (2013); and the “Neuroscience of Learning” in the ASTD Handbook (2014). He can be reached at mcfarland.walter@gmail.com.

Walter McFarland

Walter McFarland explains why the future of talent development is about building the “great workforce.”

The Future of Talent Development

Many change initiatives fail. Research from ATD and i4cp provides change agents with strategies to improve their success rate.

Revolutionizing Change Initiatives

Spring 2015 - The Public Manager

Equipping a new generation of change leaders with enhanced skills in talent development can improve organizational change outcomes, increase engagement, and build new capabilities in federal agencies.

Creating Talent-Enabled Change Leaders

Learn how government leaders can execute organizational change better, faster, and with fewer resources.

Mastering Change Management

This webcast is based on the recently released research report from ATD and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) titled, Change Agents: The Role of Organizational Learning in Change Management. The report aims to provide learning professionals with insight into the learning practices most likely to make a positive difference in an organization’s change-related capabilities.

Join Patrick Murray, Vice President of Employee Surveys at i4cp and Walter McFarland, Founder of Windmill Human Performance, as they explores the findings of the report and how organizations prepare and deal with change.
 

ATD Research Presents: Change Management Research

The Journey of Change

A great step in performing organizational change is better leadership—and leading great change demands courage. Drawing from research for the book Choosing Change (a Soundview best business book of 2014 and recipient of an AXIOM Silver Medal), this presentation uses data from interviews with 60 executives in 14 Fortune Global organizations to highlight eight actions that matter in leading successful organizational change. The presentation suggests that a key leadership action involves integrating learning into change—courageously.

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