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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 85 — a085

# Kristy R. Ellmer

**Profile.** Kristy R. Ellmer is a Principal / Senior Expert at [[entity-bcg-d7|Boston Consulting Group]] and a co-author of the BCG change-management body of work *How Change Really Works*.

**Role in the source.** Co-author of *The False Alignment Trap*. She brings the change-execution and 'mathematics of misalignment' lens — how surface-level alignment compounds into downstream execution failure.

**Attributed contributions to this vault.** The taxonomy of downstream consequences — [[concept-change-paralysis|paralysis]], [[concept-change-hyperactivity|hyperactivity]], and [[concept-change-tunnel-vision|tunnel vision]]; the [[concept-deferred-agreement-debt|deferred agreement debt]] construct; and the practical prescriptions in the [[framework-reaching-true-agreement|five-step process]] and the [[framework-facing-true-disagreement|four options for facing true disagreement]].