Elisa Chavez
Dr. Elisa Chavez, Principal, Cambiar Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness, is a
proven organizational development professional. She excels at helping
individuals, teams, and organizations build leadership capacity and change
resilience as they move through the messy realities of constant change.
Elisa’s areas of expertise include leadership development, coaching, improving
performance (individual, team, and organization), managing change and
transition, group dynamics and facilitation, adult learning, curriculum design,
and project management. Elisa has held increasingly responsible management,
training and organizational development positions in banking, post-secondary
education, journalism, health insurance, and most recently worked with the BC
Health Authorities, helping create a groundbreaking provincial approach to
leadership development – a project where true collaboration flourished.
Elisa hold a doctorate in Organizational Leadership, a Masters in
Organizational Management and certificates in Human Systems Dynamics, Training
Specialist and William Bridges Change and Transition Management. Her doctoral
research focused on managing organizational change culminating in her
dissertation The Change Equation: A Correlation Study of Status Quo Bias in Managers.