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.