The Westrend Group helps clients manage change. 

Our work is primarily with senior executives and Boards. Assignments include:

  • consulting on strategic planning and organizational change 
  • presentations for Boards and management groups on subjects such as how to assess the potential impacts of changes in the external environment, strategic planning, emerging technologies and managing organizational change
  • facilitating Board or management retreats.

Clients have included speeches and consulting assignments for state and national associartions and companies in telecommunications, manufacturing, banks, real state, government agencies and hospitals and health care systems.

Michael Annison has written four books.The first was the award winning Managing the Whirlwind: Patterns and Opportunities in a Changing World. The second, Trust Matters – New Dimensions in Healthcare Leadership was co-authored with Dan Wilford, former President of the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, Texas. The third focused on Organizing for Good – What it Takes to Achieve Sustainable Success. The most recent is The Trust Dimension, again, co-authored with Dan Wilford was written to help organizational leaders develop trust with their organizations as well as  between their organizations and the people they serve.
Evaluation comments from recent leadership retreat:
  • 'Michael is totally in his element and on his game'
  • 'Does a “masterful” job of tying everything together.'
  •  'As always, Mike did a great job!'
  • ' Great facilitator.'
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Organizing for Good describes what it takes to achieve and sustain excellence. It is based on thirty years work with Westrend Group clients.
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​​This was the first book Dan Wilford and I wrote on trust. It describes 'seven elements of trust' and what it takes to build trust in organizations.