Change Management Office, built from zero
The connective layer between Strategic Initiatives and the PMO — methodology, intake standards, decision rights, and reporting cadence the enterprise still runs on.
Nearly two decades inside administration, operations, procurement, HR technology, consulting, and transformation — learning how organizations actually work across departments, then turning that view into programs people adopt and results leaders can measure.
Ken Munshower’s career has been a nearly two-decade study of how organizations really work — not inside one function, but across all of them.
After earning a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Tampa, Ken started in marketing analysis and higher-education admissions, learning early how clear messaging moves people to act.
At Affival, a specialty steel-and-chemicals manufacturer within the SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Group, he spent nearly four years as a direct report to the CEO while overseeing the company’s administrative functions and the roles within them. Running corporate administration meant seeing the whole enterprise at once: board books and executive presentations, a multi-year ERP program, 5S across manufacturing, a procurement function built from scratch, and a headquarters relocation and plant expansion.
Looking to broaden his scope, he joined Highmark Health, one of the nation’s largest Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, where he sourced regulated healthcare services — pharmacy benefit management (PBM), non-emergency medical transportation, hospice and palliative care, and Medicare products such as colorectal cancer screening — alongside digital solutions for members.
At NetJets, a Berkshire Hathaway company, Ken served as an internal consultant to Marketing and Human Resources — most notably partnering on the HR technology transformation that brought in a new HRIS. He built tools and processes inside his stakeholders’ own teams so procurement became part of their strategy rather than a step at the end of it. At Ascena Retail Group, he led corporate procurement through a period of deep organizational instability; the company later went through bankruptcy and sold off its brands and assets.
He then moved into consulting with Proxima, part of Bain & Company, supporting Managing Partners on transformation engagements for Fortune 100 technology leaders — analyzing contract portfolios alongside the governance and operational processes behind them. When the global pandemic reshaped the consulting landscape in 2020, he returned to the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies.
At FlightSafety International, another Berkshire Hathaway company, Ken first led HR operations transformation as Director of Administrative Operations. That work made the case for something the company didn’t yet have — and Ken built it: the enterprise change and transformation discipline, and the Change Management Office that connects Strategic Initiatives to the PMO.
Every stop added another department to the map. Along the way Ken developed direct reports, led cross-functional teams, and managed through matrixed organizations where influence mattered more than authority — building the foundation that makes results possible. Today he connects enterprise activity at the portfolio level, giving executives one view of what’s moving, what’s at risk, and where initiatives can build on each other’s synergies instead of competing for the same people and attention.
Ken is an avid learner with endless curiosity. He leads with humble inquiry, keeps innovating, and holds a simple standard: if it isn’t broken, keep making it better. He’s unafraid to test new ideas — and more interested in architecting the future than defending the past. He is completing his MBA at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business, and holds Prosci, CCMP, and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt credentials.
The principles behind every mandate: people first, systems connected, tools that amplify, and change that lasts.
To connect strategy to people and build adaptability into an organization’s DNA — not as a box checked for this quarter, but as a capability that keeps the organization aware, energized, and adaptable for decades.
Unlock human potential first. Strategy follows people, not the reverse.
Design connected systems — strategy, departments, portfolios, and culture aligned in one direction.
Use AI and digital tools to multiply output without sacrificing quality or humanity.
Embed change so it sustains itself. Transformation that needs constant maintenance isn’t transformation.
People aren’t resources to be managed; they’re systems to be activated. Belief in the direction, trust in the people leading it, and faith that the organization is invested in them turn understanding into action.
The best decision shouldn’t depend on who’s in the room. Clear decision rights, root-cause analysis, and a repeatable structure help the organization make the best call every time — with second- and third-order effects weighed before they arrive.
Lasting transformation happens when every department works from the same map as the enterprise, and shared people and budget are directed toward shared priorities. The job is to build the connective tissue that keeps them aligned, so every team sees opportunity instead of trade-offs.
AI accelerates what people can create, but expertise becomes more critical, not less: someone has to know whether the output is right.
When execution is commoditized, insight is scarce. Innovation isn’t a department — it’s a culture.
When people are invited in as partners, they bring their full thinking, ownership, and creativity — a capability no system can replicate. Change built alongside people becomes change they carry forward.
Success increasingly depends on cooperation across functions, domains, and borders. Leaders who work across those intersections will shape what comes next.
Documented results from FlightSafety International, Proxima (part of Bain & Company), Ascena Retail Group, NetJets, Highmark Health, and Affival.
Plus ~$30M in revenue potential unlocked through enterprise Lean Six Sigma work — not counted in the total.
Translates enterprise priorities into sequenced roadmaps, with the intake standards, decision rights, stage-gates, and RAID risk governance that keep them honest.
Runs the assessment stack — impact, readiness, stakeholder, resistance — and turns it into communications, training, and scorecards leadership reviews.
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt who designs kaizen and root-cause work, builds improvement capability into the workforce, and applies AI to compress delivery.
No single methodology fits every initiative. Ken blends proven disciplines into a structure that adapts to the work in front of it.
Governance, assessment, and delivery standards drawn from each discipline — scaled up or down to match the scope, risk, and pace of the initiative.
Filter by organization or search by keyword — HRIS, Medicare, Lean, M&A, ERP, and more.
The connective layer between Strategic Initiatives and the PMO — methodology, intake standards, decision rights, and reporting cadence the enterprise still runs on.
Change impact, readiness, and stakeholder work bringing an acquired company’s people and processes into the enterprise operating model.
Analysis of spend across professional services contracts and the governance and operational processes behind them — surfacing structural cost and effectiveness opportunities.
Built from the ground up between Strategic Initiatives and the PMO — operating model, intake standards, decision rights, reporting cadence.
Enterprise model for benchmarking transformation readiness, surfacing leadership gaps, and targeting coaching; embedded enterprise-wide.
People-side strategy for moving scheduling cases from ServiceNow to Salesforce with redesigned search and case workflows.
Two-year program improving regulated training for clients and employees.
Standardized regulatory training content in a single governed knowledge base.
Enterprise knowledge bases aligned to release timing and training with IT and business owners.
Cross-functional intake and portfolio visibility built in Smartsheet.
Standardized and modernized operational processes, including the quality management system (QMS).
Assessed innovation capability and translated findings into a prioritized action plan.
SAP SuccessFactors, Workforce Software, BenefitFocus, and Qualtrics — a multi-million-dollar budget, a team of direct reports, and concurrent workstreams.
Enterprise transition of employee benefits administration.
First enterprise engagement survey, run for five years with annual action planning as a standing process.
Enterprise recognition program designed and managed through 2024.
Redesigned onboarding and early-tenure processes to improve retention.
Transitioned and refreshed customer surveys and dashboard reporting.
Change impact, readiness, and stakeholder work integrating an acquired company into the operating model.
Change planning for a proposed shared services model spanning two Berkshire Hathaway companies.
30+ kaizen events on billing accuracy, operational capacity, and qualification cycle time — $8.7M in process waste eliminated, $19.2M in cost avoidance, and ~$30M in revenue potential unlocked.
Certified employee cohorts to Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, building improvement capability into the workforce.
Toolkits, templates, assessments, and scorecards prototyped with Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT for 5,000+ employees.
Audience-segmented communications through Poppulo and AppSpace, with manager talking points and resource hubs.
Full audit of professional services contracts plus the governance and operational processes behind them; cost-reduction strategy.
Contract and governance analysis, cost reduction, and spend taxonomy creation.
Contract analysis, cost reduction, and spend taxonomy creation.
Diagnosed process and data gaps and recommended operating-model redesign of client departments.
Contracting for apparel raw materials across international suppliers.
Sustainability metrics reporting built through the supplier base.
Sourcing and transition support for the HR information system.
Transitioned unemployment benefits services to a new provider.
Owned HR and professional services categories, including staff-augmentation and consulting suppliers.
Sourcing and management of workforce management services.
Sourced the HR information system with IT and HR and supported implementation.
Led the procurement project that transitioned employee medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Ran the RFP and managed agency partners for creative marketing campaigns.
Sourced global events for a premium private aviation brand.
Standardized procurement processes and supplier partnership models.
Online retail experience co-designed with a new promotional products supplier during contract negotiations.
Pharmacy benefit management sourcing and supplier management.
Sourced hospice and palliative care services for Medicare members.
Sourced routine, non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) services.
Sourced hearing aid benefits for Medicare members.
Sourced colorectal cancer screening services.
Nine-month, $100K+ RFI/RFP for a member app serving Medicare and Exchange markets.
Six-month, $750K+ cloud analytics solution integrating multiple enterprise platforms.
Real-time contract drafting and execution module co-developed with 15+ business units.
One-year, $1.2M+ solution monitoring compliance gaps, SLAs, and KPIs across absorbed entities.
Three-year, $1.1M+ program moving inventory, finance, and procurement onto a modern ERP after trials of Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft.
Led both from planning through completion.
Lean workplace organization deployed across manufacturing operations.
Managed communications and stakeholder engagement across a global stakeholder base.
Built non-raw-materials procurement from the ground up — 2,000+ POs a year, $150K+ savings.
Standardized and improved logistics and back-office processes.
Managed raw material inventory processes and reporting.
Directed the move from paper to electronic records.
Produced the annual board books and governance documentation for the CEO.
Produced executive sales and engineering presentations.
The work of transformation is never merely structural — it is fundamentally human. Every initiative succeeds or fails at the intersection of readiness and will.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business · Global Business, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Expected Dec 2027University of Tampa
Dec 2008Prosci
Aug 2026Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP)
Jul 2022The Ohio State University
Sep 2025The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Sep 2026University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business
Sep 2026Being First, Inc.
Jun 2022Cornell University
Feb 2021Share a few details and Ken will follow up directly. Prefer email? That works too.