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Beth Kargel

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Experience & Education

InnovateATL Rapid Innovation training

 Stakeholder inquiry, design thinking, rapid prototyping

Results-Based Leadership training

Consensus building, accountability, adaptive leadership, facilitation

Association of Change Management Professionals, member

PROSCI certified

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification

 GreyCampus

Project Management Institute, member

PMP certification expected Q42025

Association of Professional Futurists, member

Applying diverse perspectives and foresight tools to think systemically about the future and drive actionable strategy.

Transformation Lead, Board Chair, Odyssey Family Counseling Center

Managed an in-depth inquiry, strategy design, strategy delivery, and change process to address significant and complex business process, facility, governance, staffing, and morale issues. Reduced burn rate by 70% within 12 mos.

Coach, Year Up’s nationally-known feedback culture

Founding President, Central Georgia PR Group, now PRSA

Wesleyan College (Macon, GA) B.A. cum laude, Public Relations/Business

Current ROLE

The Canton Group • Lead, Learning & Transformation Practice

 • Accelerates firm’s internal strategy, AI-driven business process enhancements, and automation to enable operational efficiency across teams and continued growth.

• Builds and scales transformation practices, hiring and mentoring teams, refining playbook, and driving execution excellence.

• Leads organizational change management and training teams, steering a $100M portfolio of high-impact public sector transformations, including Salesforce modernization and election management SaaS implementations. 

Other Relevant Engagements

Alvarez and Marsal • Senior Change Manager, Corporate Services

• As enterprise change management lead, drove project successes and people-dependent results for this global management consulting firm. Successfully prepared the firm for its aggressive 1x growth in employees between 2023 and 2025.

• Defined a tiered service model to scale OCM professional services. Established a Center of Excellence, integrating change planning and providing training and tools to optimize change efforts across the business. Recognized as architect of “a model rollout” by CTO.

• Advanced new CTO’s self-service agenda by ensuring enterprise ServiceNow migration/upgrade readiness.

• Supported collaboration between IT, Finance, and business to develop and rollout data warehouse, eliminate silos, and improve decisions. 

• Developed and executed strategy to launch Applicant Tracking System (ATS) with Talent team and enterprise hiring managers.

Equifax • Dir. , Change Management Communication (temporary Business Transformation Team)

• Developed and drove the enterprise change management strategy for $2B initiative: cloud migration and financial services business model transformation. The result: 89% of employees “ready” for adoption of fintech business model; 75% of customers “extremely satisfied” with migration experience, communication, and training. Business Transformation unlocked 60% revenue growth by 2025 ($3.5B to $5.7B).

• Activated leadership, fostering alignment and confidence to accelerate change readiness.

• Partnered across HR, product, technology, operations, finance, and others in a complex landscape. Navigated Covid-19 disruptions, CRM and billing system overhauls, and sales restructuring. Prioritized enterprise change strategy, aligning business to ensure coordinated execution and risk mitigation. 

• In addition, created strategies to retain corporate customers and inspire/instruct them to take action, recode, and consume data differently (significant IT changes not in customer roadmaps or budgets). 

CARE USA • Global Internal and Executive Communications Lead

Served as strategic consultant to leaders navigating business and culture shifts (24/7 humanitarian aid organization, 36 cntrys, $550MM, 5K empls).

Laid off in 2019 following 3 budget-driven enterprise-wide reorgs within 2 yrs. 

• Aligned all transformation activities with corporate strategy, ensuring integration across functions, to achieve adoption and sustainability and to improve competitive position.  Noted for “ability to get things done in CARE’s complex environment.” 

    • CEO

        Within 6 mos., 35% increase in CEO email open rates; 50% surge in town hall webinar participation across globe.

   •  Human Resources

       Supervised embedded HR employee; supported recognition, engagement survey, D&I, and ERG creation as well as evolution of performance management, comp and benefits, and training. Led sexual harassment training and culture campaign.

    • IT 

       M365 & digital security implementations. CRM rollout commended as “the most positive introduction of technology to the business” in IT Dir’s tenure. Global platform launch resulted in the “highest adoption curve of anything in 20 years.”

    • Operations

        Occupied building renovation. Reinforcing policies and procedures, code of conduct, and compliance.

• Developed executive-level content, from change management to crisis management.

•  Championed best practice as internal communications Center of Excellence: providing training and tools, integrating change and communications calendars and measurement. Managed multiple digital channels including SharePoint intranet and social media. Drove transparency, timeliness, editorial content, storytelling, and use of video.

Points of Light (global HQ) & Hands On Atlanta (local)

I had three roles spanning 10 total years with CEO Michelle Nunn, moving with her to CARE following  six years with local affiliate Hands On Atlanta  and global HQ Points of Light.

  • Program leader for a 10-person team that developed brand- and culture-aligned  employee activation projects  with Fortune 1000, B2B and B2C corporate partners (primarily CSR, Marketing and HR leaders). Created multi-city agreements and cause marketing campaigns. 
  • Managed Hands On Atlanta Day service event for 13,000 volunteers at 100 different sites. 
  • Partnered with The White House and the federal Office of Social Innovation to showcase their investments, such as veterans and digital capacity building.
  • Developed response to the water crisis in Flint, MI, response to the United Nations  Sustainable Development goals, and Major League Baseball Players Trust disaster relief following tsunamis (Japan and the Philippines) and Hurricane Sandy. 

Wesleyan College

              •  PR, Media relations, faculty speakers’ bureau, website, events and crisis communication.  

              •  Created advertising, newsletters, alumni magazines and campus communication.

              •  Produced 300 design projects/yr.

              •  Received American Advertising Award (Addy) recognition.     

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