Check out So You Want to Be a Change Practitioner. Where Do You Start? by Heather Stagl. Here is an excerpt:
I often meet people who want to move into change management from another job, and they ask me, where do I start? The good news is that most of the people I know who do change work full time didn’t start there. When you’re in school, you typically don’t recognize that it would be necessary…
The full article is available here.