A senior execution bench for high-stakes organizational restructuring and change
Our team brings decades of inside-and-outside experience supporting leaders through restructuring and critical change where execution and credibility matter.
A specialist bench behind complex
change execution
The Change-Resilient Advantage Group brings together a deliberately curated bench of senior, independent practitioners who have led complex change at scale. Each member of our bench brings deep, hands-on experience from enterprise and high-complexity environments, and operates as a seasoned advisor in their own right.
Collectively, our bench brings decades of deep experience from highly regulated, complex operating environments, with backgrounds spanning in-house leadership roles, Big Four consulting, and independent advisory work.
How we deploy our bench
Our bench is deployed deliberately, based on what the change requires. Because our practitioners are highly experienced, independent advisors, we assemble the right combination of experience and judgment for each engagement, without layering, handoffs, or unnecessary overhead.
We work as senior advisors, facilitators, and execution partners, bringing in the right capabilities at the right moments to stabilize execution, build ownership, and protect capacity as the work unfolds.
Barbara Sennrich
Founder & CEO | Change, Communication & Leadership AlignmentBarbara helps organizations lead high-stakes change in ways that build capacity rather than exhaust it.
With 20+ years of experience across strategic communications, organizational change, and culture development, she supports leaders by aligning decision-makers, engaging teams, and strengthening the human capacity required for change to land and hold.
Barbara has supported restructurings, leadership transitions, M&A integrations, and culture shifts across healthcare, pharma, med-tech, and professional services.
Monica Brewster
Monica is a senior change and leadership advisor with deep experience supporting complex transformation in large, matrixed organizations. She combines rigorous change management expertise with a distinctive focus on how leaders show up under pressure. Her work helps leaders examine the assumptions, behaviors, and decision patterns that shape outcomes in moments of uncertainty.
Monica is typically engaged as a senior advisor, executive coach, and designer and facilitator of critical leadership engagements.
Change strategy and leadership maturity
Jeanie designs and facilitates experiences that help teams think differently, connect more deeply, and work together more effectively. With 25 years of experience across education, non-profits, conservation, and community organizations, she brings a strong systems perspective and deep expertise in how people learn and change.
Jeanie is most often brought in as a lead facilitator and experience designer for complex, multi-stakeholder conversations where ownership and collaboration need to be built in real time.
Facilitation and experience design for complex teamsJeanie Williamss
Svetlana Parilova
Svetlana supports leaders and teams in building strategic clarity, alignment, and resilience in fast-moving environments. She has helped more than 45 organizations improve leadership effectiveness, retention, and execution during periods of growth, integration, and change. Her work combines strong business acumen with a people-centered leadership approach shaped by a global career spanning finance, entrepreneurship, and organizational development.
Svetlana is typically engaged as a leadership advisor and coach during periods of growth, integration, or sustained pressure.
Leadership alignment and resilience in fast growth
Kathy Imwalle
Kathy brings decades of experience helping organizations make change executable. She specializes in change readiness, stakeholder alignment, and practical change management training that clarifies roles, surfaces resistance as useful data, and strengthens sponsorship. Kathy views project management as the forge of leadership and the driver of change ROI, and her experiential training supports organizations to design change that models the future they want to create.
Kathy is often brought in at the beginning or mid-stream to assess readiness, course-correct execution, and equip leaders and managers to drive adoption.
Change readiness, adoption, and practical execution
Kelsey works with organizations to strengthen the effectiveness of their management layer, with a focus on first-time and emerging managers. She designs and delivers manager training, coaching, and learning experiences that improve engagement, role clarity, and day-to-day performance. Her approach blends emotional intelligence, systems thinking, and human-centered design.
Kelsey is typically engaged to design and deliver manager enablement and development during periods of change or growth.
Manager effectiveness and people-centered leadershipKelsey Ley
Liv Behre
Liv supports leaders and teams in strengthening interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, and healthy team dynamics. Her work focuses on coaching, leadership development, interpersonal communication, and culture implementation. Liv is a guest lecturer at Harvard for teambuilding and communication, a certified coach and certified in DiSC and Korn Ferry leadership assessments. She brings experience from across various industries.
Liv is often engaged as a coach and facilitator for leaders and teams navigating transitions, rebuilding trust, or strengthening collaboration.
Emotional intelligence and culture-shaping leadership
Julia Juergens
Julia brings 25 years of global experience in leadership and organizational development across international institutions and multinational corporations. She has designed and led large-scale leadership and change programs across regions and cultures. A certified business mediator and systemic coach, she combines deep expertise with strong sensitivity to interpersonal dynamics.
Julia is typically engaged to support leaders through transformation, conflict, and complex cross-cultural or interpersonal dynamics.
Global leadership, transformation, and mediation
Monika specializes in holistic organizational development + strategic development, working with whole systems to improve alignment, engagement, and effectiveness. With over 20 years of experience across many industries including logistics, automotive, and the public sector, she integrates facilitation, process design, and team development to support complex organizational environments.
Monika is most often brought in to lead whole-system facilitation and organizational development efforts where interdependencies are high.
Whole-system organizational development and facilitationMonika Himpelmann
What guides our work
These values guide how we make decisions and show up under pressure, internally and with clients.
Health
We prioritize sustainable work, grounded boundaries, and long-term outcomes for people and organizations.
Leadership
We take responsibility for our actions and their impact, and we lead by example, especially when things are hard.
Growth
We are committed to continuous learning and development, individually and collectively.
Collaboration
We believe the best work happens together, through trust, shared ownership, and respect for diverse strengths.
Authenticity
We show up as we are, bring our real experience to the table, and invite others to do the same.
Contribution
We believe success carries responsibility and that our work should create impact beyond the immediate engagement.
Professional affiliations & certifications
We are active members of regional and professional organizations that support business leadership, economic development, and inclusive growth.
We speak at leadership forums, industry events, and internal leadership sessions, sharing practical perspectives on executing restructuring and critical change under pressure without exhausting people
Ready to work with the team behind the work?
If you’re navigating restructuring or critical change and want senior execution support grounded in real experience,
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