Corporate LifeCycles Network Inc.

Testimonials

Client Comments for Pathway to PRIME®

"The Corporate Lifecycles process worked for us. It brought clarity and focus to our strategic options and helped us to develop an implementation plan that had the support of the entire senior management team. I strongly recommend it."
Fred Cahill
CEO
ERA Technology Ltd

“The best methodology for organizational alignment and change management that I know.”
Richard Harrington CEO
The Thomson Corporation
United States

“A structured and highly effective approach to organizational change that delivered tangible and positive results from our efforts to rejuvenate our company and prepare for a competitive energy market."
Fridrik Sophusson, CEO
The National Power Company
Iceland

"The Corporate LifeCycles approach to strategic change, founded on a deep understanding of the developmental maturity of our organization, gave us clear insight into the difference between normal and abnormal problems, and this in turn helped to guide the order in which initiatives were tackled."
Brian Marshall, Managing Director
Thales Defence Information Systems
United Kingdom

“A simple yet effective set of tools and methodology for a company to align its organization, validate or develop its strategy and structure itself to reach a high level of performance. Their approach also ensures that all of this gets implemented."
Jay Spach, Snr Vice-President
The Thomson Corporation
United States

“The only change management process we have ever been able to say actually works and it has become the method by which we do business effectively.”
Jeri Ferree
Vice President, Human Resources
Micromedex, Inc.
United States

Client Comments for Prime Knowledge®

The sessions on diagnosing and aligning your organization were outstanding. The Corporate LifeCycles facilitator connected with the group and did not pretend to know/tell us what we need to do, rather he provided us with practical, useful, common sense "how to" material/information. Thanks for bringing him in!

Prime Knowledge created a valuable tool to use in assessing the organization and working with our business partners.

The tools that Ian presented were great and will have easy adoption with our groups.

Ian's presentations provided very useful information I can apply in my role.

Ian MacDougall's presentation was excellent! He is a great facilitator. I would highly recommend him to others.

This was one of the best courses on managing change I have ever been on."

"Excellent Course! Can't wait to begin applying this."

"One of the best, if not the best training I have ever received."

"This training was outstanding and motivating."

"This was simply the most useful and best run course I have ever attended."

"A very worthwhile course..."

"I really enjoyed this program and learned a lot...

Client Comments for Lifecycle Assessment Workshop

"This was a historic event. This is the beginning of a process that will change the company more than anything that has happened in the last 140 years."

"This was a huge step in bringing the company and the union together."

"These two and a half days were wonderful."

"I'm inspired by the ease with which people were able to talk about difficult issues and I appreciate the common sense approach of the process we used."

"This is the best listening and participation we have ever had in our organization."

"This was exciting but in many ways tough. When you feel you've exhausted yourself something must have gone right."

"I appreciate the frankness we had in this room. It bodes well for the future."

"We've learned to look at problems in a different way. We're focused and the level of urgency is high."

"This was very historic."

"I've been frustrated over the last couple of years by our efforts to change. In the last two days I've learned we've been doing it the wrong way."

Client Comments for Speakers Services

“After hearing Jack Welch and Jim Collins, to name a few, I thought I had heard it all. I was wrong! You provided a masterful description of the ways organizations rise and fall through the organizational life cycle and how to get to PRIME. You were as entertaining as you were insightful. You really helped me understand where our organization is, why it is there, and what we can do to get to PRIME and stay there. Thank you again for an outstanding presentation".

"Ian is very perceptive. He is the best speaker I have ever heard."

" Get Corporate LifeCycles back next year."

" The best presentation I have ever heard for understanding myself and my business."

" Ian is a dynamic speaker."

" Ian has strong knowledge and credibility. "

" Great presentation, clear material, good examples, good sense of humor and minimum hype. "

" Ian is a superb speaker in every way. "

" Ian is right up there with the best. "

" Ian is a very articulate speaker. "

" Truly invigorating. This was probably the best presentation we have ever heard. "

" Ian has an excellent delivery style and material. He was terrific. We'll invite him back. "

" Thanks for a great presentation. We will be talking about this well into the future. "

" Ian is a very good speaker and his presentation had excellent take-home value. "

" This was a very real topic for my company's stage of development. "

" Ian is either very smart, very experienced or a clairvoyant. I wish I had a video tape of his presentation to pass around my company. "

" I don't want to wait two years to hear you again. "

" Provocative! That's what your speech was. You raised questions that gave us an opportunity to improve the leadership and longevity of our companies. "

“ Ian MacDougall is a gifted presenter -- lively, funny and great pacing. His content is full of ah-ha's and insights for everyone from founders to hired gun-CEOs ”