Leading Culture Change

The Leading Culture Change program gives participants the tools to plan and execute large-scale transformation initiatives and the confidence to communicate with employees in times of change. They learn how to manage complex communication needs for a diverse, global, and distributed workforce.

Learning through experience

The full-day simulation involves participants taking on a senior leadership role in organizations undergoing serious challenges. Participants actively experience how employees’ perceptions of the content and context of the change, and their emotional responses to them, form part of the process of change. They will experience creating employee buy-in, ensuring a safe space for dialogue, and building a renewed sense of belonging.

Key lessons learned through cultural transformation

The program is structured around the key lessons as defined by leaders who have lived through a culture transformation, including:

• fostering dialogue

• dealing with a range of negative emotions

• making employees feel valued, heard and safe during change

In addition, participants benefit from the network of support and challenge established by the facilitated Peer Group Action Learning Sets that forms part of this program.

For participants with complex schedules and frequent commitments, the self-paced approach helps them navigate a full calendar and put the Open Program learnings first when it works best.

This style helps participants avoid going through the motions of the course and instead focus on learning when they have the capacity to do so.

Blended programs combine the best of live virtual and face-to-face learning.

• Part one of each blended program is hosted virtually and in real time.

• Then, leaders implement what they’ve learned or undertake strategic projects before coming together face-to-face for part two.

Participants get a deeply impactful, immersive, and intimate learning experience, meeting peers from all over the globe and interacting with world-class faculty.