RESOURCES
Upcoming Online Instructor-Led Courses & Events

10 Key Strategies for Transformational Change Workshop
This workshop explores how to master the science of leading transformational change. These strategies are culled from 40 years of advising senior executives of complex systems.

Transform and Achieve Breakthrough: An Intro to Conscious Change Leadership
This free mini-course introduces you to Being First’s Approach to transformation and how to achieve breakthrough results in yourself, your organization and / or community. It describes what breakthrough is, why transformation is required to achieve it, and how to develop the necessary transformational leadership skills. It introduces you to Conscious Change Leadership, a profound new way of thinking about, framing and addressing human performance and organization transformation.

Communicate with Leaders: Questions That Educate
Questions that educate increase a person’s thinking and perspective on an issue. This helps them see what they’re currently missing, without you having to always be in “tell mode,” which might reduce their listening to you. Use these questions to communicate with leaders and help them see what they are missing to make change more successful.

10 Strategies to Work with Senior Leaders Who Don’t Get It
This resource includes ten proven strategies for working with senior leaders who do not fully understand the people or change process dynamics impacting success on change initiatives.

How to Work with Senior Leaders Who Don’t Get It
This gap between what we know is needed and what executives can “tolerate” creates numerous challenges for us. This video explores what to do if senior leaders are not setting up the necessary conditions for successful change or transformation.

How to Transform to Achieve Breakthrough
Conscious Change Leadership is a comprehensive Field of Study and Practice about human development and large systems transformation. Join us in this video as we explore what is required to transform yourself, your leaders, culture, organization, and community to Achieve Breakthrough results.

How You Can Achieve Breakthrough Results through Transformation
Join us in this video as we discuss what transformation is and how to successfully lead it. Learn the critical components you must address in all transformational change efforts. This knowledge is foundational to being an effective transformational leader or consultant.

How to Ensure Enterprise-Wide Success from Transformational Change
Succeeding at transformational change is a requirement in today’s marketplace. But as change has become more complex, the failure rate has increased. This white paper outlines a radical new approach to building your organization’s transformational change capability.

Identifying Your Type of Change (TLIB3)
This Tool guides you through identifying the type of change your work entails. This work is Task: Clarify Type of Change (Task I.B.3), which is part of the CLR Activity I.B Create Case for Change and Determine Initial Desired Outcomes. If you are working within the CLR process flow, you would already have clarified your plan to create your case for change.

How to Break Through Limitations and Barriers to Achieve the Extraordinary
This video explores how you, your organization and community can break free of conventional thinking and strategies to achieve new possibilities previously thought unattainable.

Identifying the Breakthroughs You Are After
This worksheet will help you identify the personal and professional breakthroughs that will up-level the quality of your leadership, life and work.

Determining Your Decision-Making Style, Roles and Process (TLIE3)
This Tool guides you through determining the decision-making style, roles and process needed for your change effort to run effectively. This work is part of the larger Task, Clarify Governance and Decision-Making (Task I.E.3.). In the CLR process flow, you would have already clarified and staffed initial change leadership roles before you move into decision-making design.

Defining Your Key Change Leadership Roles and Responsibilities (TLIA2)
This Tool guides you through defining the change leadership roles needed for your change effort and clarifies the responsibilities and deliverables of each. We recommend seven key roles, each of which may be tailored for your unique circumstances.

Leading Transformational Change: 10 Strategies for Breakthrough Results
This online instructor-led course will enable you to deliver desired results from the complex change initiatives you lead or consult to. It supports corporate leaders, community leaders, activists, and all varieties of change consultants. You’ll finish this course knowing the most important next steps to take for your transformational change effort to succeed.

Creating Multiple Project Integration Strategy (TLIE6)
This Tool supports your change leadership work after you are clear about the range of sub-initiatives within your change effort and where your effort fits in the organization’s larger changes and priorities. It guides you through the process of creating your Multiple Project Integration Strategy.

How Leaders Excel with a Breakthrough Mindset
Mindset work is interior work and starts with a personal journey of breaking through our own fear-clouded performance ceilings. In this webinar, we’ll explore what mindset is, where it comes from, how it works, and how we can transform it into a Breakthrough Mindset and achieve your vision.

The Change Leader’s Roadmap: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation
Beyond Change Management outlines Being First’s highly successful multi-dimensional, process approach to transformation, addressing change at the organizational, team, relational, and personal levels.

Beyond Change Management: How to Achieve Breakthrough Results Through Conscious Change Leadership
Beyond Change Management outlines Being First’s highly successful multi-dimensional, process approach to transformation, addressing change at the organizational, team, relational, and personal levels.


How to Handle the Complexity of Organization Transformation: The Change Leader’s Roadmap
How do you design and implement a major organization transformation so that you actually achieve results? Is there a roadmap to follow? Yes, there is.

Leading Change As a Strategic Capability
Strong change capability is vital to organizational success. The evidence is clear that we need to be better at leading and delivering on change. This white paper explores how to build your organization’s change capability through leading change as a strategic organizational discipline.

Partnering Agreements: Clarifying Shared Accountability
A successful culture change strategy contains these six key elements so it’s embedded into everything that is changing in the organization.

10 Key Elements of a Viable Culture Change Strategy
A thriving culture change strategy contains these ten critical elements, so the new state embeds into everything that is changing in the organization.

Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious Change Leadership
In this eBook, you will discover a new leadership paradigm, skills and methods to achieve breakthrough in business results, culture and leadership in all your complex change efforts.

High Performance Habits: Managing Your Inner State
This webinar explores how to develop high-performance habits that excel your ability to perform, increases your happiness and fulfillment, and expands your contribution to your family, team members, and society.

How Leaders Use Mindfulness to Drive Organizational Culture
How Conscious Change Leaders use mindfulness to bridge the enormous gap between their mindful leadership practice and the outdated systems, policies and procedures that shackle most organizations from transforming their culture.

How to Grow Yourself from the Inside Out: Maximize Career Success and Personal Satisfaction
Learning to use your life experiences, and your reactions to them will deepen your personal development. This webinar explores how to develop your ability to perform and excel, increase your happiness and fulfillment, and expand your contribution to your family, team members and society.

Why Culture Change Success is Directly Linked to CEO Behavior
Dr. Dean Anderson explores the most effective culture change strategy and leadership style that creates a safe environment and inspires managers and employees to change. This approach inspires your leaders and stakeholders to change company culture in positive ways to achieve your organization’s vision.

How to Build Trust in Your Leadership Teams
Building trust in teams takes more than hanging a motivational poster on a wall and having a leader who says all the “right” things. This webinar explores how to embed trust into teams and organizational culture and identifies the critical skills a visionary leader uses to create trust and develop teams for high performance.


Integrating Culture Change to Project Scope, Design and Roll-Out
Every significant change is affected by the organization’s existing culture, either positively or as an inhibitor. It must be considered from the beginning and not as an after-thought. This webinar explores how to address culture change in all types of projects so that the cultural dynamics impacting them are overt and designed to support the sustainment of desired outcomes.

Breakthrough Scales: Personal, Team, Organizational, Communities
Executive leaders are responsible for their teams to reach certain goals towards their organization’s vision. No matter what your pursuit – personal, relational, team, organizational, or community – in this webinar we explore the consistent human and process dynamics of transformation involved that play out in all levels of scale that help you reach your vision.

How Visionary Leaders Solve Strategic Challenges through Conscious Change Leadership
Leaders must break free of traditional thinking because conventional mindsets and approaches to transformation are not sufficient in today’s 21st Century VUCA environment, where volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity reign. This webinar explores how visionary leaders navigate complexity and solve big strategic challenges to achieve breakthrough results through Conscious Change Leadership.

Vertical Leadership Development: Answering Organizational and Social Challenges
This free webinar explores how vertical leadership development expands your mindset and worldview, so you can handle greater complexity as a leader.


Go Beyond Change Management: What it Takes
Dr. Linda Ackerman Anderson explores the benefits of becoming more of a strategic change consultant positioned and capable of influencing the way change projects are led from the very beginning. Take your skills and brand beyond change management.