Isolde Kanikani

Vice President Association of Change Management Professionals

Isolde Kanikani is the Transformation, Organisational change management (OCM) and Success Advisory Delivery Lead at Plat4mation, a leading service provider of ServiceNow solutions and the inherent large-scale transformations that come with this Platform of Platforms. With over 20 years of experience in change management, organizational development, and digital strategy, she helps clients realize their transformation goals and build change capability across their organizations. She is an experienced business manager and strategic leader of people. Besides her day job, Isolde has the honour of being the current Vice president and global member of the board at the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP), where she contributes to the advancement of the change management profession and the ACMP community. Additionally, she is the founder of FUTURE:CM, a network that fosters change management innovation and learning. Isolde regularly speaks on transformation, change, governance and value management. As a researcher and innovator, she has written several publications, whitepapers and book chapters that further inform her work as a change leader and consultant. She guest spoke in over 16 conferences and speaking engagements in 2023. Isolde specialises in topics including Diagnosing organisations, ChangOp's, Value management, Building Organisational Change Maturity and ESG. She has a deep-seated interest in bridging the gap between academia with the knowledge held there and the daily pragmatic best practices we need to deliver to customers. While having a dedication to a growth mindset and continual learning, she is also investigating how to bring this into the change management professions practice with research and pro bono work (30 hours per week) carried out with non-profit organisations during Covid under the umbrella of FUTURE:CM.