Gagen Capabilities

1. Engaging
Employees to
Achieve the
Remarkable
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2. Who we are
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3. About Gagen MacDonald is a strategy
execution firm that helps companies
turn strategies into results.
Gagen Working collaboratively from the
MacDonald corporate office to the front line,
we use an organization’s leadership,
brand, culture, vision and history to
motivate and align employees behind
accomplishing business objectives.
Focusing our experiences and passions,
we make your cause our cause.
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4. Our services
Building Capabilities
Organizational Development
and Design, Learning, Training,
and Facilitation
Consulting Services Strategic Alliances
Organizational Communications,
Gagen MacDonald, LLC Strategy Execution,
APCO Worldwide,
John Kotter (Harvard University),
Change Leadership and
EMPA
Functional Development
Son & Sons
Brand and Visual Identity,
Creative Story Telling,
Creative Execution Strategy
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5. Our values and commitment
We act with integrity, humility and We are inspired by courage,
kindness in everything we do. passion and a sense of fun.
OUR CAUSE IS OUR
CLIENTS’ SUCCESS
We build our community upon
inclusive and collaborative
We celebrate individuals and their teams, sustained through
contributions to the vitality of our firm individual accountability.
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6. Where we play
Employee
Engagement
Internal Brand Organizational
Execution Communications
RESEARCH
PLANNING
STRATEGY
PROJECT
Leadership MANAGEMENT Organizational
Alignment & Development
Development MEASUREMENT
Functional Change Leadership
Assessment/Organizational
Design
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7. Organizational Business strategy shift
Corporate restructuring
initiatives Process improvement
Operational transformation
we support Systems implementation
Internal brand alignment
include: Culture and vision transformation
Reputation management
and positioning
Employee value proposition
Issues and crisis communications
Leadership & CEO transitions
Mergers and divestitures
New product launches
Sustainability strategies
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8. Our broad Our team has held senior positions
at many Fortune 500 companies.
experience CCOs from Allstate, Boeing, Navistar,
and Sprint/Nextel
Heads of internal communication from
United Airlines, Charles Schwab,
McDonald’s, Navistar and Ford
Senior HR and OD professionals from
Kohler, Navistar, Health South, Inland
Paperboard and Packaging and ADP
Long-term relationships with clients.
10+ years: United, Navistar, McDonald’s
5+ years: BASF, Dean Foods, DMI,
Edison International, Gateway
Foundation, Johnson & Johnson,
Payless Shoe Source, Thomas & Betts,
The Coca-Cola Company, Wrigley,
Pfizer, Novartis
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9. Some of our clients
We have a proven track record working with companies large and small all over the
globe.
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10. What differentiates our approach
Link all of our work to business See communications as a critical
strategy and sustainable results leadership competency
Apply leading-edge practices from Facilitate dialogue and reach
communications, HR and marketing alignment
disciplines to address organizational
Use a fact-based approach
and communications challenges
to recommend and develop
Create experiences that lead to programming
personal insights and strategic
Measure success in behavior
actions
change and outcomes (not outputs)
Use both rational and emotional
Evaluate communications up,
levers to engage and motivate people
down and across the organization
Ground everything in our values
Consider communications challenges
of global stakeholders
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11. Thank
Meg Wheaton
P 312 673 7315
F 312 640 9101
E m.wheaton@gagenmac.com
You!
Gagen MacDonald
35 East Wacker Drive
Suite 2350
Chicago, Illinois
60601
P 312 640 9100
F 312 640 9101
info@gagenmac.com
www.gagenmacdonald.com
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