BarnHouse Enterprises: Institutionalizing the Successful Execution of Big Ideas

Who We Are: The Associates

Meg Hartzler

Meg has been consulting with organizations since 1987. The challenges of major change efforts have been the focus of her work:

  • executive and organizational alignment
  • accelerting change acceptance
  • redesigning key processes
  • building capability and culture to support the change.

She has extensive involvement with General Electric’s Work-out™ and Change Acceleration (CAP) processes and was a member of the team that designed a methodology for preparing internal coaches and consultants to facilitate those processes.

Before moving to consulting, Meg led early total quality implementation in a Fortune 500 company. In the public sector, she led the reorganization and new team development of a troubled school. As a consultant, she has worked nationally and internationally in a broad range of organizations.

As a result of her passion for teamwork, she has become a recognized author in the area of team effectiveness. Meg’s books, Team Fitness and Tools for Virtual Teams, are how-to manuals for building winning work teams. Meg holds a Masters degree from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa.