INSTRUCTOR-LED, ONLINE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM

LEADING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE:
10 Strategies for Breakthrough Results

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The key to a thriving future depends on leaders’ ability to see bigger perspectives and strategically navigate the complexities of transformational change.

Are you a transformational leader?

FORMAT

FORMAT

Online, Instructor-Led with self-paced lessons in-between live sessions​

 

PROFESSIONAL CREDITS

PROFESSIONAL CREDITS

Graduates receive 54 professional credits towards various ACMP, SHRM and HRCI certification programs. See About the Program for more info.

 

LENGTH & DURATION

LENGTH & DURATION

12-weeks - 12x LIVE 4-hour Online Interactive Instructor Sessions​

(All sessions are recorded and accessible online within one business day.)

 

ONLINE COMMUNITY

ONLINE COMMUNITY

Access to the Leading Transformational Change online learning community group.​

 

REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY

REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY

Internet access; web-enabled computer, tablet or smartphone with video capabilities; free Adobe Acrobat Reader; Zoom​

 

Guarantee your success as a confident transformational change leader

This Leading Transformational Change program distills our four decades of action research in Fortune 500, government and global NGO organizations into ten Best Practice strategies.  These strategies represent critical paradigm shifts for many leaders and consultants alike. 

Making these leaps in your understanding and capabilities will dramatically up-level your change leadership capabilities whether you’re a corporate, government, community or military leader, social or environmental activist, or a change consultant of any sort.

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Understand HOW to navigate complex transformational change

Research shows that 60-70% of all transformational change efforts fail. Why? Because leaders and change consultants use conventional mindsets, methods and strategies that are partial and insufficient.

Transformational Change is complex and needs a more advanced and robust approach.

This course provides it. You’ll learn what works and doesn’t work in leading transformation.

In this video, co-founders Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dr. Dean Anderson explore what transformational change is and why traditional approaches fail to address it properly.

What is transformational change?

Learn the 10 Strategies for Leading Transformational Change Successfully

This video provides an overview of the transformational change strategies you will learn.

The strategies you’ll learn represent the cutting-edge, best practice approach to transformational change. 

Five of these are People strategies that maximize leader and stakeholder commitment and engagement and reduce resistance. The remaining five are Change Process strategies that provide detailed how-to guidance for governing, planning, designing and implementing the work required to ensure your success.

Together, these ten strategies will ensure full adoption and sustainment of your desired results.

5 People Strategies

5 Change Process Design Strategies

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Drastically up-level how you lead transformational change.

Upon completing this course, you’ll be able to:

 
CUTTING-EDGE APPROACH

The key strategies of Conscious Change Leadership.

The foundation of this course is Conscious Change Leadership, a leading-edge Field of Study and Practice pioneered by Dr. Dean Anderson and Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson. 

Conscious Change Leadership and Linda’s and Dean’s seminal books on this approach, Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership and The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation, have been cited in over 600 academic and business papers and journals.

In this course, you’ll learn about the key strategies of Conscious Change Leadership directly from a pioneer of this innovative field.

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Transform Your Thinking and Leadership with Essential Paradigm Shifts

Transformational change is unlike any other type of change. It requires leaders to apply these strategies, non-conventional approaches and ways of Being that go far beyond traditional change and project management. 

You’ll learn the paradigm shifts essential to seeing what’s missing, effectively leading transformation, and responding to constant change. These paradigm shifts will forever transform the way you think about and lead transformation.

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Is this course for you?

This program will up-level your change leadership capabilities whether you’re a corporate, government, community or military leader, social or environmental activist, or a change consultant of any sort including:

  • Change leaders in charge of organization or community transformations or strategic change initiatives: executive sponsors, change project leaders, change project team
    experts, and human resource leaders
  • Change consultants including those in project management, change management, organization development, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, strategy implementation, and
    innovation

You can enroll as an individual or as a team. We provide exercises for both, with specific guidance that helps teams deepen collective learning and application. Attending with your full change project team is a very wise decision. We highly suggest you participate with your teammates whenever possible so you can apply all your learning immediately to your project.

Come interact, learn and co-create with others like you who are committed to transformational change.

HOW THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED

An interactive virtual learning experience.

You will engage in 12 live Zoom sessions with Linda, Dean and other senior consultants from Being First’s Global Community of Practice. These sessions contain a wealth of information and resources that will enhance your thinking and deepen your understanding.

In virtual breakout sessions, you’ll expand your insights through continued inquiry and discussion with your peers. You’ll also participate in a private online learning community with fellow cohort members to deepen your learning and co-create together between live sessions.

You will also engage in online exercises in between live sessions to apply your learning to your specific change projects. Plus, you’ll have access to a multitude of online resources to deepen your learning after each live session.

By the end of the course, you’ll know the most critical next steps to take in your transformational change effort.

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FOR TEAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS

How Project Teams can Accelerate Results from this Program

This guide is for change process leaders who are enrolling or considering enrolling in the LTC with their team. 

It includes an Action Guide for how your entire team can benefit from the program, not just those enrolled. It includes a suggested meeting cadence for Sponsors and Team check-ins, debriefs and other ways to maximize your participation before, during and after the program. 

COURSE OUTLINE

Go beyond change and project management.

Set the foundations for your optimal learning and application of course material.

Paradigm Shift: Enabling you to live and work from a Conscious Change Leadership perspective

Topics Covered:

  • Introduction to the Course
  • Co-Creating Our Culture
  • Course Overview: Introduction to the Ten Strategies
  • Self as Instrument
    • You Are Your Most Important Strategy
    • Centering Yourself

STRATEGY: Develop leader’s self mastery, ability to think big and model desired behavior.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Putting top priority focus on developing leaders from the inside out and raising their consciousness so they can be better models of transformation and handle greater complexity

Topics Covered:

  • What is Self-Mastery?
  • Identifying Self-Limiting Ego Patterns
  • Human Nature: Ego and Being
  • Vertical Leadership Development

STRATEGY: Lead co-creatively to empower people and unleash their potential.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Realizing that how we lead impacts the contribution of others and that a co-creative style unleashes maximum human potential for transformational outcomes in service to the larger system

Topics Covered:

  • Leadership Behavior and Stages of Adult Development
  • What is Co-Creating?
  • Your Experience of Co-Creating
  • Co-Creative Leadership Style
  • The Key Skills of the Co-Creative Leader

STRATEGY: Ensure your leaders are aligned and engaged from start to finish.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Standing for leadership commitment and alignment as non-negotiable and proactively developing them as an essential strategy and condition for success

Topics Covered:

  • Debrief: Co-Creative Leadership Practice
  •  Defining Commitment and Alignment
  • Why Leadership Commitment and Alignment Are Critical
  • Understanding Human Motivation
  • Understanding Impacts of Leadership Style on Motivation
  • How to Get Leaders Committed and Aligned

STRATEGY: Create your unified change strategy that integrates mindset, behavior, culture and system changes.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Launching change strategically in a way that integrates content AND people outcomes from
the start, in advance of and guidance to project planning.

Topics Covered:

  • What Is a Change Strategy?
  • The 12 Elements of Change Strategy
  • How to Use Your Change Strategy
  • How to Influence Your Leaders to Do Change Strategy

STRATEGY: Govern your transformation with clear change leadership roles, an effective parallel structure and streamlined decision-making.

PARADIGM SHIFTS: Transcending the conflict between running operations and running the change by creating a parallel structure and staffing it with competent change leaders who embrace clear decision-making
Recognizing the necessity and power of the Change Process Leader role to strategically orchestrate the process of transformation and all its dynamics from start to completion

Topics Covered:

  • The Importance of Good Change Governance
  • Change Leadership Roles
  • Change Governance Structures
  • Decision-Making
  • Interface with Ongoing Operations

STRATEGY: Consciously design your change process using advanced navigation systems to ensure full adoption and sustainment of your desired results.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Pausing to take a more complete view of all the dynamics at play in your transformation, then consciously designing a process that readily navigates that complexity to successful
outcomes

Topics Covered:

  • Conscious Process Design
  • Process Guidance for Successful Projects
    • The Breakthrough Process
    • The Change Leader’s Roadmap®

STRATEGY: Go slow to go fast – take time to set up your conditions for success.

PARADIGM SHIFT: To consciously identify and establish from the beginning the conditions and factors that raise the probability of a successful change process and result

Topics Covered:

  • What Are Conditions for Success
  • Making the Case to Leaders
  • Consciously Design Your Conditions for Success Process
  • Identifying Your Conditions for Success
  • Establishing Your Conditions for Success
  • Monitoring and Sustaining Your Conditions for Success

STRATEGY: Learn the 12 critical strategies for culture change and why you must directly apply them to your transformation.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Elevating culture change from a fuzzy, unattainable idea to an essential strategic priority that can be pragmatically achieved.

Topics Covered:

  • What Culture Is and Why It Is So Important to Transformational Change
  • Two Approaches to Transforming Culture
  • How to Make the Case for Culture Change
  • Indicators and Levers for Culture Change
  • Ten Elements of a Culture Change Strategy

STRATEGY: Engage your stakeholders early to maximize their commitment and minimize resistance.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Seeing that early stakeholder engagement optimizes stakeholders’ positive contribution and investment in making the transformation successful, accelerating its outcomes.

Topics Covered:

  • The Importance of Stakeholder Engagement
  • Leadership Mindset and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Types and Vehicles of Stakeholder Engagement
  • How to Create an Engagement Strategy
  • Engagement and Peoples’ Core Needs
  • Integrating Engagement and Change Communications
  • How to Create an Engagement Plan

STRATEGY: Establish a course correction mindset and system to keep your transformation on track and focused.

PARADIGM SHIFT: Realizing that transformation by nature is non-linear, and that problems, mistakes and breakdowns are not barriers to success but doorways to success when learning from them occurs and reshapes the process going forward

Topics Covered:

  • The Importance of Learning and Course Correction in Transformation
  • Your Relationship to Mistakes
  • Leadership and Cultural Norms Regarding Mistakes
  • The Process to Determine a Course Correction
  • Making the Case for Learning and Course Correction

Capture, integrate and deepen your most important insights and actions, and organize them to put them to work!

PARADIGM SHIFT: Seeing the integration – and greater whole – of all ten strategies, and how together they open a new paradigm of possibility for you, your career as a Conscious Change Leader, and your organization.

Topics Covered:

  • Integration and Seeing the Whole
  • My Key Take-Aways and Insights
  • How I See Myself Now
  • How I Will Continue My Development
  • How I Will Bring My Contribution to My World
INSTRUCTORS

Get strategic guidance from a pioneer of transformational change.

Greetings! Since the early 1980’s, we’ve been guiding visionary corporate executives, military, government, and community leaders to successfully design and implement large transformational change initiatives.The need for transformational change is more urgent now than ever. Our organizational, social, and environmental challenges require competent transformational leadership. We know that developing these skills is not easy. But we also know what it takes. In our consulting careers, we have seen what works and doesn’t work many times over.Leading Transformational Change is our first online foundational program. We put lots of effort into making sure we compiled all of the best practices in transformation from the last four decades to give you everything you need to make an immediate difference now. It’s truly our privilege to share this knowledge with you.

- Linda

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson and the Being First Teaching Team

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson and the Being First Teaching Team

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson is a founding leader of the Organization Transformation field. Dr. Ackerman Anderson brings 40+ years of experience in facilitating and teaching transformational change in Fortune 1000 businesses, governments, the military and large not-for-profit organizations. Linda’s passion is to equip leaders and consultants with the capability to create transformational change strategies that produce extraordinary business outcomes while transforming leadership mindset and culture. She co-authored with Dr. Dean Anderson the seminal books on Conscious Change Leadership, "Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results through Conscious Change Leadership" and "The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation."

Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson is the Co-Founder and VP of Being First, Inc.

Graduates of this program qualify for:

ASSOCIATION OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS (ACMP)

54 ACMP Professional Development Units

The Leading Transformational Change course is recognized by ACMP as a Qualified Education Provider™ (QEP™) to offer Professional Development Units (PDUs) towards CCMP®.

SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (SHRM)

54 SHRM Professional Development Credits

Being First is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits
(PDCs) towards SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.

The use of this official seal confirms that this Activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.
HUMAN RESOURCE CERTIFICATIONS INSTITUTE (HRCI)

54 HRCI Business Recertification Credit Hours

This program has been approved for Business recertification credit hours towards aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).

SCHEDULE

Join our next virtual cohort.

This course includes 12 online interactive sessions between Sept. 12 – Dec. 5, 2023. (With one 1-week break Oct. 24)

All sessions are 5-hours total and include a 1-hour break. The session times are 8-10am Pacific Standard Time (15:00-17:00 UTC) and 11am-1pm Pacific Standard Time (18:00-20:00 UTC). (Sessions will also be recorded and made available in the cohort’s online learning community.)

Ratings and Reviews

Annie Hegerty
Posted 3 months ago
Virtual participation

Participating only virtually is difficult. I live in Australia, work full time and have family, so the timing was difficult for me. Not being able to participate in Breakouts etc was hard.

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Peter Kaplers
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Rachele DiBartolo
Posted 3 months ago
Such a great course!

This course is fantastic! Between the opportunities for reflection, the weekly sessions, the course work and the breakout sessions, I have learned a lot about myself as both a change leader and an individual, from both Linda and Dean, as well as all my course mates. I am finishing this course feeling more open, knowledgeable, and confident. Thank you!

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Sylvie Lee
Posted 3 months ago
This experience grows you to lead from anywhere you sit

Étant fonctionnaire à la Fonction publique canadienne, la gestion du chargement est au coeur de notre évolution et la redéfinition de la prochaine FP. Suivre ce cours et vivre l'experience m'ont permise de prendre le recul et de réaliser l'importance du "comment" bâtir cet avenir ensemble. This training is essential to help build our vision of the future of work, and a must to all leaders.

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Elaine Moore
Posted 3 months ago
Robust and practical content

I enjoyed the instructors speaking from their own viewpoints and experiences. The course content, pre and post class activities were sufficient to keep me immersed in the learning week to week.

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Emilie Ralston
Posted 3 months ago
Applicable strategies for any change

This course provided valuable learning in the way Leaders, as well as ourselves as Change Practitioners, need to show up and make transformational change possible. I appreciate the concepts introduced in this course and recognize this is a journey of learning, curiosity, and personal development that can benefit both your personal and professional practice.

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Diana Poor
Posted 9 months ago
Great info

loved the insight

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Waltraud Rother
Posted 9 months ago
Find your tribe of like-minded change practitioners

If you want to understand, what contributes to sustainable change or if you want to deepen your understanding how to engage people, this is the right place to be. Linda and Dean share their tremendous experiences from decades of change programs and help change leaders making an impact in the world by running comprehensive programs that carefully address the underestimated people-side of change.

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Bonnie Stone
Posted 10 months ago
Believe

Go slow and celebrate the victories. Be creative in your messaging. The course is a foundation and a great place to start.

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Kimm Trichilo
Posted 10 months ago
This Course Makes Change Click!

From the course content to the instructors to the delivery, this course is fantastic!! I have a Masters in Org. Development and Change Management & I am a Certified Change Professional through the ACMP, & yet I had soooo many great take-aways from this course. I definitely levelled up! The focus on self-mastery, mindset & behaviour are truly unique components of this course, as are Linda & Dean.

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Wondering if this program is right for you or your group?

Discover how learning our 40+ years of transformational best practices can help you and your organization succeed in your transformational change efforts. 

Watch this program introduction with instructor, Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson, and learn more about the ten strategies and what to expect when you attend the Leading Transformational Change program.

This course includes 12 online interactive sessions on Tuesday’s from Sept. 12 – Dec. 5, 2023.
Download Schedule

All sessions are 5-hours total and include a 1-hour break. The session times are 8-10am Pacific Standard Time (15:00-17:00 UTC) and 11am-1pm Pacific Standard Time (18:00-20:00 UTC). (Sessions will also be recorded and made available in the cohort’s online learning community.)

All Tuition Options Include:

Individual Tuition Options

Group Tuition Options

  • Individual General Tuition

    $3450
    $ 2,932

    Individual Government Tuition

    $3450
    $ 2,587
    • Includes 25% Government Discount

    Individual NGO Tuition

    $3450
    $ 2,415
    • Includes 30% NGO
      Discount
  • Group Enrollment Includes:

    Groups of 3-5

    $3450
    $ 2,760
    • Includes 15% Group Discount
      Plus the Early Bird additional 5% discount
      Expiring Aug 12, 2023

    Groups of 6+

    $3450
    $ 2,587
    • Includes 20% Group Discount
      Plus the Early Bird additional 5% discount
      Expiring Aug 12, 2023

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