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Leading Through Change gives you a practical, end-to-end playbook for guiding teams and organizations through any change that comes your way — whether you saw it coming for months or learned about it five minutes ago. You'll build the skills to scope a change properly, choose the right approach for its scale and urgency, communicate it in a way that reaches every kind of audience, monitor adoption over time, and sustain momentum once the rollout is done. What makes this course different is that it's grounded in twenty-five years of executive coaching experience across organizations of every size and industry. The frameworks aren't theoretical — they've been pressure-tested in mergers, layoffs, system migrations, and the everyday small changes that quietly determine whether a culture is change-friendly or change-fatigued. You'll leave with a repeatable toolkit (the four-part strategy framework, the risk management cycle, the four communication archetypes, the More/Better/Different retrospective) and the confidence to apply it, no matter what changes land in your inbox tomorrow. If you've ever felt blindsided by change, exhausted by it, or unsure how to lead others through it, this course will give you steadier ground to stand on.

Syllabus

Intro to Change Leadership

Your ability to lead through change — not just survive it — is one of the most visible measures of your effectiveness as a leader. In this module, you'll connect change leadership to the metrics that matter, navigate the most common challenges, and build a strategy blueprint you can apply to any change on your horizon.

Defining the Scope

Every change has a factual side and an emotional side, and missing either one is how well-intentioned initiatives quietly fall apart. In this module, you'll scope changes for both facts and feelings, analyze individual and organizational impact, manage risk, and set milestones that keep your team moving forward.

Types of Change

Not every change calls for the same playbook, and matching your approach to the situation is what separates effective leaders from reactive ones. In this module, you'll apply targeted strategies for quick changes, dramatic disruptions, course corrections, competing priorities, and ventures into the unknown.

Communicating Change

People react to change in predictable ways, and your communication strategy has to speak to all of them at once. In this module, you'll tailor your messaging to four change archetypes and build a communication plan that pairs clear reasons to believe with an open feedback loop.

Monitoring Change

Without a monitoring plan, even well-executed change initiatives quietly lose momentum — and you won't know until it's too late to course correct. In this module, you'll measure change impact over time using target and guardrail metrics, and build pulse checks that surface adoption issues before they become full-blown problems.

Sustaining Change

The habits that lock in progress — celebrating wins, capturing lessons, and leading with courage and compassion — are the easiest to skip, and skipping them is how change quietly unravels. In this module, you'll build in rewards that reinforce adoption, run a structured More/Better/Different retrospective, and apply courage and compassion to keep yourself and your team moving through whatever changes come next.