Change Enablement Lead

cwi; Wauwatosa (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's Wisconsin seeks a strategic change leader to guide enterprise initiatives. You will design and drive change management strategies that enable adoption, minimize disruption, accelerate outcomes, and sustain new ways of working across teams.

You will partner with executives and project teams to assess readiness, address risks, coach leaders through ambiguity, and ensure change aligns with the organization's mission to improve the health and well‑being of children and families.

Qualifications

• Experience in organizational change management, preferably in large-scale or healthcare settings.
• Ability to influence without authority and to coach leaders through ambiguity.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise change management initiatives and ensure adoption across multiple programs.
• Partner with executive sponsors and project leaders to integrate change strategies into planning and execution.
• Develop comprehensive change plans addressing people, process, technology, culture, and leadership.
• Establish baselines and measures to evaluate readiness, adoption, and outcomes.

Skills

Change mgmt

Stakeholder mgmt

Leadership coaching

Strategic thinking

Job description

At Children's Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Children's Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well‑being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country.

Please follow this link for a closer look at what it's like to work at Children's Wisconsin: https://www.instagram.com/lifeatcw/

Job Summary

Serves as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to leaders, project teams, and team members responsible for delivering organizational change across Children's Wisconsin. This role leads the design and execution of change strategies that enable adoption, influence behavioral change, minimize disruption, accelerate organizational outcomes, and sustain new ways of working. Operating at both the initiative and enterprise levels, assesses organizational readiness, identifies people related risks and impacts, develops leader and stakeholder engagement strategies, and guides leaders and team members through complex transformations. This role partners closely with operational, clinical, digital, and corporate leaders to ensure organizational change efforts align with Children's Wisconsin's mission, strategic priorities, and commitment to improving the health and well‑being of children and families. Influences without authority, coaches leaders through periods of ambiguity and transformation, and contributes to building Children's Wisconsin's organizational change management capability through the development and application of consistent methodologies, tools, and practices that strengthen organizational resilience, readiness, and adaptability. Success in this role is measured not only by the execution of change activities, but by the degree to which leaders and team members adopt and sustain new behaviors that improve organizational performance and business outcomes.

Essential Functions

Strategic Change Leadership

• Serve as the lead organizational change management advisor on highly visible, complex, and enterprise impacting initiatives.
• Partner with executive sponsors, senior leaders, project leaders, and stakeholders to integrate change management strategies into initiative planning and execution.
• Develop and implement comprehensive change strategies that address people, process, technology, culture, and leadership considerations.
• Align change management efforts with organizational priorities, strategic objectives, operational goals, and desired outcomes.
• Anticipate organizational risks, barriers, and impacts associated with change and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Influence decision making by providing insight into organizational readiness, stakeholder needs, adoption risks, and change impacts.

Change Assessment, Planning, and Measurement

• Conduct change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, organizational readiness assessments, and adoption risk evaluations.
• Identify change saturation, competing priorities, organizational capacity constraints, and potential barriers to successful adoption.
• Develop and execute change management plans that include stakeholder engagement, communication, learning, coaching, reinforcement, and sustainment strategies.
• Establish baseline and future state measures that evaluate readiness, adoption, behavioral change, proficiency, utilization, and organizational outcomes.
• Analyze adoption data, stakeholder feedback, and operational performance measures to evaluate change effectiveness, identify opportunities for intervention, and inform continuous improvement efforts.
• Develop measurement approaches that demonstrate the connection between change management activities, behavioral adoption, and organizational performance outcomes.

Leadership and Stakeholder Enablement

• Coach leaders and sponsors to effectively lead change, communicate key messages, manage resistance, and drive successful adoption.
• Build change leadership capability by providing consultation, tools, practical guidance, and ongoing support.
• Facilitate alignment discussions, decision making, and problem solving among leaders, sponsors, and stakeholders with varying priorities and perspectives.
• Support leaders in addressing team member concerns, ambiguity, and resistance throughout the change journey.
• Foster leadership accountability for adoption, sustainment, and achievement of desired organizational outcomes.

Organizational Adoption, Sustainment, and Value Realization

• Partner with project