AI Change Management Consultant

OCM Consultant Location: 2331 Citywest Blvd., Houston, TX 77042 Onsite: Onsite 5 days a week Estimated Start Day: November 16, 2026 Length: 6 months, with ability to extend for right person Intake notes: • Project - AI Value Pool - how our client will use AI • Agile experience a plus • Open to right-sizing (tailoring the scale, depth, and budget of your change program to match the actual complexity, risk, and human impact of a project, rather than applying a heavy, one-size-fits-all framework) • Looking for someone with a positive attitude who can "go with the flow" and adapt to the quick pace of change • Ideally 10+ years of experience in OCM • Technical IT knowledge not required, but experience with IT projects needed Job Requirements • Develop and execute change management for the AI Value Pool program. • Lead change management strategies and adoption initiatives that enable the organization to realize sustained value from digital and business transformation investments. • Serve as a senior change advisor to executive leaders, program sponsors, and cross-functional stakeholders. Shape change strategy across complex initiatives, translate transformation into clear action for impacted audiences, and establish the governance, capability, and measurement practices needed to sustain adoption across the organization. What You'll Do • Lead integrated change management strategies and plans for complex, enterprise-scale initiatives and portfolios, including stakeholder engagement, impact assessments, readiness, communications, training, reinforcement, adoption, and value realization activities. • Serve as a senior trusted advisor to executive leaders, business sponsors, and senior stakeholders by providing expert guidance on change strategy, organizational impacts, adoption risks, stakeholder alignment, readiness, and enterprise implications. • Shape change approaches for ambiguous, high-impact, and cross-functional initiatives by connecting business objectives, operating-model changes, technology enablement, workforce impacts, and measurable adoption outcomes. • Establish and advance change management standards, governance, tools, templates, and best practices that improve consistency, scalability, and effectiveness across programs and functions. • Develop and guide executive and leader communications that create clarity, build commitment, explain what is changing, and equip leaders with consistent messages, FAQs, talking points, and actions. • Direct the development of learning and enablement strategies, including training, playbooks, job aids, leader toolkits, and other resources for diverse and geographically dispersed audiences. • Facilitate executive workshops, stakeholder forums, and working sessions to align leaders, surface impacts and resistance points, resolve readiness risks, and drive practical actions that support adoption. • Define success measures and value realization indicators; monitor adoption, readiness, business outcomes, and emerging risks; and provide data-driven recommendations to senior leadership. • Coach and advise change practitioners, project teams, and business partners to build change leadership capability and strengthen the organization's ability to absorb and sustain transformation. • Recommend and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience by applying human-centered design principles and insights from organizational data. Required Qu…