Wendy Woods-Williams
Managing Partner
Complex change, untangled.
Common Thread Advisors helps turn strategic intent into commercial impact. Too often, strategy sits apart from the people responsible for bringing it to life. We ensure transformation lands by bridging the gap between strategy and human behavior. We get people engaged, leaders empowered and strategy delivered, so organizations can move through and benefit from change, faster.
Credibility that counts.
Our team has driven in-house transformation and employee engagement at Fortune 500 companies, partnered with executive leaders to shape and evolve organizations, teams and programs and guided our former company through a multi-year integration and private equity-led transformation.
Maureen Byrne
Partner, Client Experience & Growth
Michael Grela
Partner, Operations & Impact
David Kyne
Partner, Executive Chair
Julie O'Donnell
Partner, Strategy & Innovation
Bridging strategy and human behavior.
Our approaches are built on decades of established change management, human behavior and communications research and models, shaped by our team’s deep experience and expertise and powered by human and AI analysis.
Proof over promises.
We help identify and act on the common threads that connect teams and cultures, impacting their ability to achieve their goals and reach their commercial potential. We work across industries and geographies, at the intersection of leadership strategy and operational reality — where understanding, trust and adoption collide to define success.
Our core service areas.
Our approachTransformation + Change
Change is only successful when people truly understand it, trust it, and know what to do differently. We make sure it lands by building belief in the approach, the plan, and the people leading it.
Leadership + Culture
Engaged and productive teams require trust in leadership and a culture that lives beyond the handbook. We help protect and build leadership trust and shape the culture strategy needs to deliver.
Social Performance + Impact
Societal value and impact are important business indicators but can be difficult to track. We help prioritize and connect commitments to measures that impact reputation and the bottom line.
Connection points.
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Common Thread Advisors launches to help organizations untangle complex change
Co-founded by five industry leaders with a legacy of delivering growth and transformation.
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The four key conditions impacting change
People carry transformation. But organizations create the conditions to carry it.
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How trust debt undermines change strategy
No transformation starts with a clean slate. People bring the organization’s history with them.
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