Session Description: ​You’ve likely heard about “Change Fatigue”, but like many emerging concepts, there is a lot of general commentary, with little concrete discussion. In this interactive session, we will dive into the concept, defining what it is, and is not, and how it is already impacting the role of change leaders. Introducing a new model to help frame how it is impacting traditional approaches to leading change, we can explore necessary changes to our roles.​

Facilitator Biography: ​Joseph Drasin, D.M. is an accomplished practitioner and educator in the areas of change management, process improvement, and technology leadership. Currently, he is the Assistant Vice President of Service Strategy at University of Maryland’s Division of Information Technology and a member of the faculty. Dr. Drasin’s expertise has been developed over an impressive 25-year career in organizational development, process engineering, enterprise system planning and implementation, technology leadership and strategy, and change management. He has consulted with many public and private organizations where he works to identify shared objectives and facilitates cross-organizational process designs to break down existing technological and organizational silos. A believer in the professionalism of management and leadership, his practice work is paralleled by publishing, speaking, and education on a broad number of topics.  Joseph's professional and academic career has been an extensive journey solving technology and organizational challenges. He is currently leading Maryland's growing center of excellence focused on process improvement, project management, change management, and organizational transformation. Before coming to Maryland, Joseph was a consultant at Business Intelligence, a boutique strategic consulting firm. He was able to help public and private organizations better plan and execute large scale organizational change. Prior to that, he was a Sr. Project Manager at Long & Foster, responsible for their industry-leading eCommerce ERP platform, a consultant at Constella Group (now SRA), a principal consultant at Prism Consulting Group, and spent time at Invitrogen (now Thermo Fisher Scientific).   He received his Doctorate of Management from University of Maryland, University College, a Masters of Science in Business and a post-graduate Certification in Competitive Intelligence from Johns Hopkins University as well as Bachelor degrees in Management Science & Statistics, Logistics & Transportation, and Economics from The University of Maryland, College Park.