Ilona Pesti

Ilona Pesti is a principal consultant with Clarkston Consulting specializing in strategic Organizational Change Management (OCM). She is passionate about guiding people through business and individual transformations to embrace and adapt to changes, reduce project implementation risks, and enable business growth.

Ilona has helped clients successfully transform businesses in 15 industries as an OCM lead, designing and executing tailored change strategies to improve operational performance. She has experience in merger and acquisition integration operating model alignment, ERP process improvement/technology adoption, global outsourcing organizational design, HR transformation, workforce transition implementation, and in-house change capability building.

Ilona received her Master of Public Administration and Service degree from the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is Prosci ADKAR, Change Portfolio, and Enterprise Change Certified.