Culture Change for Leaders

Dr. Andrew Henck

Practical professor of culture + change

The culture-reading skill no playbook teaches in a coaching cohort of ten.

You have been handed a change to lead. A restructure, an AI rollout, a merger, a new way of working. The plan looks sound on paper but something tells you it will not land the way the slide deck promises.

That instinct is right.

Most change does not fail on the plan. It fails on the culture nobody read accurately first.

You have probably seen it. The tool that gets quietly worked around. The values on the wall that no one behaves by. The reorg that moved the boxes but not the behaviour. By the time the resistance shows up, the cultural damage is already set.

This course gives you what the change playbooks skip: (1) how to read your organisation's culture honestly before you try to move it, (2) how to tell real resistance from useful information, and (3) how to make change hold once attention moves on.

You will leave with a clear read of your own culture and an action plan built for your specific challenge, with coaching support to pursue it.

This Culture Change Circle is capped at ten leaders: running 26 August to 16 September 2026.

What you’ll learn

Move from managing change by playbook to reading your culture and leading change that holds under pressure.

Apply the Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) to map stated values against observed behaviours
Turn vague instinct into specific + nameable evidence through a structured culture-reading approach
Practise on your own organisation with feedback in the live circle calls

Build + practise the habit of asking what the resistance is protecting before deciding how to respond
Distinguish self-protection from sound objection through case studies in the course resources
Learn to treat resistance as a signal to read rather than an obstacle to overcome

Apply a diagnostic question set to a current change you are facing through coaching call + in the live circle calls
Identify whose work changes most and the source of real authority + influence beyond the org chart

Trace the differences between compliance + genuine integration for culture change
Embed feedback checkpoints into your own action plan through live coaching calls

Shape your plan across the two live circle calls with input from professional peers
Refine it one-to-one in your action coaching call
Leverage culture resources to keep the work going after the course