Daryl Conner

Daryl Conner

Change Management Expert

An internationally recognized leader in the field of change management, Daryl Conner serves as a leading advisor and educator to senior executives across the globe. He is the author of Managing at the Speed of Change and Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization, and is a top authority on helping organizations achieve greater human resilience as they approach major transitions.


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An internationally recognized leader in the field of change management, Daryl Conner serves as a leading advisor and educator to senior executives across the globe. For nearly 30 years, Mr. Conner's work with organizations has been built on a strong foundation of research and training in organizational consulting. He is the author of Managing at the Speed of Change and Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization, and is a top authority on helping organizations achieve greater human resilience as they approach major transitions.

Using a highly disciplined approach, he helps managers deal with the human side of today's warp-speed cycle of change and gain competitive advantage. A prolific writer and speaker, Conner has written hundreds of articles for leading management publications and spoken to corporate audiences on almost every continent. His clients include a blue-chip list of the world's best-known companies, along with government agencies, non-profit institutions, multinational firms, associations and educational institutions.

  • Building a Nimble Organization in Turbulent Times

  • Managing at the Speed of Changes

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    January 1998

    Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization

    Moving beyond the subject of how best to manage change, this book shows instead what organizations must do given that change is constant.


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    January 1993

    Managing at the Speed of Change

    An indispensable source for anyone who needs to implement business decisions on time and within budget. In today's ever-fluctuating world, it's not enough to recognize that you and the way you do business need to change. You must know how to make changes quickly, effectively and economically or you are bound to fail. Conner has taken his twenty years of change management experience and written a ground-breaking guide on resilient, successful change. His system focuses on how to change rather than what to change. Business people at all levels now face the major challenge of initiating company-wide reorganization plans, responding quickly to competition, establishing new products and markets, and adapting themselves smoothly to fluctuations in the economy.