Nick Horney

Dr. Horney founded Agility Consulting and Training in 2001 and has been recognized for innovations in the fields of leadership and change management. Dr. Horney has been recognized as an expert in strategic agility by journals such as People & Strategy and CIO Magazine, books such as Rothwell, et. al’s Human Resource Transformation (2008) and organizations such as the American Management Association, Canadian Management Centre, IBN International, Human Resource People and Strategy and AMA Japan.

Prior to forming Agility Consulting, Dr. Horney served on the Executive Committee of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) as Vice President of Client and Constituency Relations. His change management consulting experience spans over 30 years and includes the start-up and management of the Coopers & Lybrand Change Management Practice. Representative clients include Coca-Cola, Harrah’s Entertainment, Hanesbrands, Dell, Lenovo, Siemens, CIA, ARAMARK, John Deere, Celanese, Nationwide Insurance and R.R. Donnelley. Prior to consulting, Nick held senior leadership roles in the consumer products industry (Divisions of Nestle and Pepsi).

Dr. Horney co-authored a book in 2013 published by the Project Management Institute entitled Managing Change in Organizations. He co-authored a book entitled Focused, Fast & Flexibleand coauthored a book in 2000 entitled Project Change Management, published by McGraw-Hill. He has authored or interviewed for various podcasts, magazines and journals (e.g., People & Strategy, enterpriseleadership.org., The National Productivity Review, Training and Development Journal, CIO Magazine, Bank Marketing Magazine, American Way--American Airlines In-flight Magazine, etc.) addressing agility and change management issues. His work on the topic of agility has been presented at professional association conferences, internal company management conferences and at universities (e.g., Rochester Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Wake Forest University, UNC Charlotte and Rollins College).

Dr. Horney’s first-hand knowledge of agility and change management was developed during his 23 years as a Navy Special Operations officer leading diving and explosive ordnance disposal teams