Feature Presentation Title:  Change Leadership

Change Leadership is the ability to inspire and guide individuals and organizations through transformation, focusing on vision, communication, listening, and motivation to build acceptance, commitment, ownership, and ensure successful long-term adoption

While there are many approaches and tools used for leading change,  we’ll talk about four key components that seem to always a part of leading successful change.

Presented by:  Matthew P. LoPiccolo

If only allowed one word to define Matt LoPiccolo, it would be “relationships.” Throughout his career at Swagelok, Matt’s ability to create and nurture relationships has allowed him to make significant contributions across multiple functions within an organization including Global Corporate Strategy, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Distribution, and Flight Operations. These relationships have proven to be transformational as Matt has built global teams, developed future leaders, and delivered in high- growth environments year over year. Matt’s relationships span all levels and extend into his nonprofit work.

Matt earned the reputation of a transformational leader and builder of teams in every role he has held. He has a proven method of building self-sustaining programs and organizations through a holistic approach based on trust, engagement, development of collective talent, and an integrated structure producing clarity and results.

As Vice President & CIO, Matt led the vision of integrating IT with the business thereby strengthening his relationship with the leaders and together delivering results that were highly effective. More notably he and his team designed a model to improve business engagement, creating business analysts and process teams for all business functions. As VP of Customer Service & Supply Chain, his team developed the playbook significantly improving planning and responding to changing business cycles. It also services as the main training and knowledge sharing tool for development and onboarding.

As SVP of the Enterprise Program Office (EPO) he was responsible for accelerating the organization’s ability to execute business strategies and providing a holistic view of strategic and annual planning efforts. His team designed a flexible set of methods, tools, and training that aligned strategy to execution.

Matt is currently the COO and Executive Consultant for Roeder Consulting where he puts his experience to use helping clients improve the synergy between strategy and their ability to achieve its objectives through project and leadership competencies.

Professional accomplishments include holding a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute and the Change Management Certification from Prosci. Matt is a recipient of the PMI Kerzner Award for Project Management Excellence and received the 2016 Crains Terabyte award for a distinguished career in Information Technology. He is the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Marymount Health Care Systems and continues to serve on multiple boards and advisory committees.

Matt earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from John Carroll University and a master’s degree in business administration from Baldwin Wallace College where he was inducted to the Bald-win Wallace Business Honor Society.

Schedule: (Eastern Time Zone)
6:45pm – Networking
7:00pm – Feature presentation
8:15pm – Wrap-up

Location: ONLINE meeting using Zoom software. A meeting link will be sent out the morning of the meeting.