Changentum Change Leadership Insights

Your Change Leadership Journey: Not a Walk in the Park

Syngenta

Rolls-Royce Power Systems

LSG Sky Chefs

StoltNielsen

Dawn Springett

Fearless Catalyst for Change Leadership | Making Change Manageable Again

Learn how leadership culture and existing structures can create barriers to change, and what you can do to address them.

Understanding Organizational Barriers to Change

Discover practical techniques to involve key stakeholders, gain buy-in, and reduce resistance during change efforts.

Engaging Stakeholders for Successful Change

Use this structured approach to assess priorities, identify hidden challenges, and navigate through complex transitions.

Applying the Change Leadership Map in Your Team:

Develop the skills to plan, anticipate challenges, and adapt your leadership approach to different phases of change.

Adopting a Change Leadership Mindset

Leader as Coach is an immersive seven week program designed to equip leaders with the mindsets, techniques, and hands-on practice to develop coaching capacities that drive organizational success. Grounded in an experiential learning approach, the course focuses both on one's interior presence as a coach and practical methodologies to structure empowering coaching conversations with team members. Key topics span understanding the foundations of a coaching approach, cultivating levels of listening and questioning that spark insight, delivering feedback for accountability, and integrating coaching skills holistically into one's leadership style. Participants walk away not only with core competencies but also the ability to foster more purposeful, transformational relationships that ultimately create greater employee ownership, engagement, development and business performance. 98% of past students say they are actively applying learnings in leading their organizations. Scholarships and non-profit rates are available, simply mention your interest in the application form. Class size is limited to 20 participants.

Multiply Your Leadership Impact


We begin with a look at why coaching is such a critical skill for leaders, what makes coaching different in organizational settings, and the key characteristics of a coaching mindset. We’ll look at the key functions of leading, managing, and coaching and how they can work together to develop potential and build high-performing teams

Foundations of Coaching


Learn simple and effective tools to support you when you take on the role of coach. Increase your self-awareness, hone your powers of observation, share effective feedback, and learn to ask open and honest questions that can facilitate new insights and lasting change.

Listening, Observing, and Asking Questions


Emotions are real and they happen at work (and sometimes get us into trouble). The common tendency is to avoid them, but emotions are a rich source of information and meaning. Understanding how the brain constructs emotion, the role emotions play, and how to work with them can level up any coaching conversation.

The Neuroscience of Emotion


What does the arc of a coaching conversation look like? What happens in a coaching conversation? How do we start, how can we effectively navigate the middle, and how do we conclude? Students will have the opportunity to practice coaching conversations in small groups in a safe and confidential space in order to grow their coaching confidence.

The Coaching Conversation


Going deeper into the art of coaching conversations, the fifth week introduces the Learning Conversation Scale to help leaders understand when to coach and how to combine coaching with managing and leading. We'll look at a few case studies to understand these concepts in more detail, and engage in practice coaching conversations.

The Coaching Conversation II


In the final module students will learn how to integrate coaching conversations into the day to day tasks of leading, managing, and creating a culture of accountability. Folks will also have the opportunity to reflect on their experience, create a learning plan, and design experiments to deepen their practice of the coaching leadership style.

Integration


Course syllabus

To have effective and impactful coaching conversations, leaders must first make a shift in their mindset and approach. Foundations introduces students to the idea of a "coaching presence" as an impactful tool for coaching.

Week 1: Foundations of Coaching


Learn how to make grounded observations based on data to facilitate increased awareness in a learning conversation. And learn what emotions are and how to work with them in organizational settings to build trust and create psychological safety.

Week 2: Making Observations and Working with Emotions


The ability to utilize several forms of listening combined with an understanding of the anatomy of powerful questions gives coaches the ability to facilitate change in others. Students will gain proficiency in forms of listening and asking powerful questions.

Week 3: Listening and Asking Questions


Session four is fully focused on the process of coaching from beginning to end. Utilizing a simple framework along with tools and methods from previous sessions, students learn how to structure a coaching conversation. Andi will also do a live coaching demo.&nbsp;

Week 4: The Coaching Conversation I


All roads lead to Week 5! This is the week students take everything they have been learning and put it into practice in the Coaching Conversations Lab. This is a safe and confidential environment where folks get hands-on practice in real coaching conversations.

Week 5: The Coaching Conversation II


Feedback is an essential part of coaching and can often be one of the hardest skills to master. Learn how to give effective and impactful feedback, how to use feedback in a coaching conversation, and the difference between giving feedback as a coach and as a manager.

Week 6: The Feedback Conversation


In our final session we bring everything together, cover additional tools for your coaching toolbox, explore what it takes to build a coaching friendly culture, and create learning plans for what comes next in your development as a leader who coaches.

Week 7: Integration


Course Schedule 


Managers looking to integrate coaching agility into their leadership practice.

Executives who want to build strong relationships and trust through powerful conversations.

Leaders who want to have more effective and actionable feedback conversations with their team.

Who is this course for

You'll immediately be able to apply learnings from the following topics

Establish a mindful, empowering “coaching presence”


Discern when coaching is the right leadership approach vs. directing


Utilize awareness and receptive listening to spur employee self-discovery


Ask powerful questions that shift mindsets and behaviors


Observe effectively and share feedback that sticks


Have structure to move through coherent coaching conversations


Comfortably manage emotional dynamics and resistance


Use coaching to generate accountability and ownership


Integrate a coaching approach into day-to-day leadership


Great coaching is a leadership multiplier. Learn critical skills to increase your impact, empower your team, and maximize results.


Andrea Mignolo

Executive Coach, MBA, PCC

Seven Mondays, from 9 - 11am Pacific time

League V

Seven Tuesdays, from 9 - 11am Pacific time

League VI

MtL offers a unique learning experience for leaders in that your team is one of a cohort of teams and where YOUR CASE&nbsp;IS&nbsp;the Course in a flipped classroom. ﻿You come away with real solutions to real problems and with initiatives you can implement immediately to improve your business. Topic content, practice cases, role plays, and YOUR CASE applications are blended with real-time feedback from fellow students and instructors in ten two-hour weekly live sessions. MtL Tools and Methods make doable actions driven by seven simple truths that are otherwise anything but easy.

Your own organization is the case on which you apply MtL tools and methods. 

Provide a brief description for each module as a way to sell the value of what students will be learning throughout the course.

First Module

Second Module

Third Module

Ahead of our first live session, open and work through the Get Started and Ramp Up modules.

Course Opens

Plan on at least:<ul><li>40-minutes prep for live sessions</li><li>20-minutes post live sessions</li></ul>

Weekly Assignments

Weekly 2-hour live sessions on Thursdays

Your work in MtL culminates with a management presentation that you prepare and run through with at least one outside executive, factor input into your final submission, and that you turn in one week after the last live session for evalution and grading.

Management Presentation

Schedule

Professionally financed management teams driving to complete value creation initiatives.

Organization, unit, and function leaders driving change initiatives to grow faster/perform better.

Owner-Operators who are ready to transition but whose organizations are not transition ready.

Leaders and their team with a change in mind to make to accomplish a mission, leave a legacy, or get promoted.

Startup Entrepenuers looking to go from Powerpoint to Profits.

Manage to Lead is for:

MtL is a leadership team management and development system of integrated Tools & Methods to architect, build, govern, & change your business

Your mandate is what you target to achieve by when. Think of it as the game you are playing. In MtL you learn how to always know:<ul><li>Where things are now.</li><li>Why things must change.</li><li>How you want things to be.</li><li>How to get them there.</li></ul>

Master the Change Framework:

While business leaders agree that alignment is key to success, research shows that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.spiceworks.com/marketing/marketing-strategy/news/94-percent-leaders-believe-aligning-marketing-and-sales-gained-importance/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&lt;33% say their top team is fully aligned</a>. MtL Tools and Methods, developed and honed by a team of successful CXO's, lead to clearity and alignment through collaboration.

Discover disconnects and align your team:

Determine which of five common operating models most closely matches that of your organization and draft a DO-SELL-GROW process map for the one that most constrains performance and growth.

Learn how to set up, assess, and mature key processes:

For financial and other KPIs you learn to measure performance relative to past, plan, and peers.

Decide what to watch, and how, to know how well you are doing:

Learn how to decide which initiatives to pursue first and <a href="https://intelliven.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Manage-to-Lead_FactSheet.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">what to do</a> to guarantee they will be completed on target, on time, and on budget!

Launch Strategic Inititiaves

Most people think you either lead or manage. The truth is you need to do both. The first thing a good leader needs to manage, is themself!

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Peter DiGiammarino

Professional CEO; Course Designer and Lead Instructor

Joyce Reynolds

MtL Course Designer and Co-Instructor

Cohort 14

Cohort 16

Is this happening to you or your teams? 🔥 Feeling marginalized as a designer within the organization (compared to business &amp; tech voices) 🔥 Struggling to find support (time, budget, late stakeholder involvement, etc.) 🔥 Encountering risk aversion to pursuing big ideas with new, innovative approaches 🔥 Fighting through the organization's resistance to change while the market is quickly evolving Design represents an important voice in shaping the future, but it can't operate in a vacuum. The complexities of our time (e.g., generative AI, economic uncertainty, climate change, cultural movements, etc.) require multidisciplinary, creative problem-solving more than ever. If your a design practitioner or design leader, this course will give you more courage (vs. paralysis) in your work. You'll figure out ways to break through the glass ceiling of misunderstanding and friction when collaborating with tech and business peers. You'll learn ways to build stakeholder empathy, strategic influence and a renewed sense of optimism that you can translate diverse insights and inspiration into meaningful innovation. What we'll cover together: • Debunk design's misperceptions and explore the ways designers can influence up and down the value chain• Optimize multidisciplinary teaming by building effective stakeholder management skills when engaging business &amp; tech colleagues• Develop future foresight by learning how to curate trends and anticipate many possible (even plausible) future scenarios• Exploring the connections between design &amp; diversity to give you strategies to evolve your team to mirror the world and its needs• Foster design transformation by understanding implications on your organization's design roles, methods and key enablers This live 2-week interactive course, inspired from my first book Reimagining Design (The MIT Press), provides a safe-space to share perspectives, frameworks and tactics on how to elevate design's impact within multidisciplinary teams to unlock meaningful innovation and inspire future growth opportunities for your organization. "Chatham House Rules" apply for each live-session and any asynchronous conversations on the Maven platform. Why do I want to serve as your instructor? I want to share tips and tricks that will help you cut through the organizational noise and friction that often gets in our way of making impact with our design skills. From my experience building, growing and serving creative teams at places like Nike and BCG, I want you to get up the learning curve much faster.

Feeling stuck on your big idea? Don't go it alone. Multidisciplinary is the way!

Meet your cohort and understand what to expect.

1 Live Welcome Session on April 28th

Get together with Kevin Bethune and your cohort peers for live interactive discussion and sharing of perspectives.

2 Consecutive Live-Sessions on Saturdays

Our second cohort will embark on two live, interactive sessions with asynchronous lesson material and projects before and in between, as well as having resources to continue explorations after the course concludes.

May 3rd & 10th, 2025

We'll provide exercises for students to perform their own independent investigations on where design, creativity and/or innovation questions could be applied to their day-to-day realities. They will have opportunities to bring their findings back into the next live session.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

Experienced Design Practitioners who want to increase their influence and open their aperture to spot holistic, innovation opportunities.

Design Leaders who seek new ways to empower and strategically align their design teams to operate at parity alongside other disciplines.

Senior Level Executives in design adjacent roles (e.g., Product Management, Engineering, Strategy) who also influence the creative process.

Who is this course for ...

What you’ll get out of this course ...

Explore innovation opportunities through new lenses that will open your creative aperture. Develop ways to strengthen your creative influence, and include non-designers by fostering their ability to make creative sparks and connections across diverse insights and inspirations.

A playbook to guide your creative problem-solving as design leaders positioned at parity within multidisciplinary teams

Investigate the paradigms that influence our converging, hyper-connected world and draw inspiration from immersing in diverse resources. These paradigms may include newly emerging technologies, trends and exemplars (e.g., startups, research institutes) to curate and study.

Key frameworks that help you find diverse inputs, insights and inspirations that can help improve your team's future foresight

Understand the key shifts in role clarity, process and enablers necessary to demonstrate design's potential within your organization. Learn how to drive influence by ensuring design's contributions are closely aligned to the goals and critical needs of the business.

A holistic approach to guide your ongoing investment in design capabilities, requiring stakeholder and transition management

Imagine yourself in this opportunity by using our interactive, peer discussions as a mirror to see how you might engage multidisciplinary teams in new ways. Develop ways to lead differently as we exchange hard lessons together. Your voice matters in the work!

Key perspectives on how to evolve your design career in support of reimagining design's potential to unlock meaningful innovation

Meet your peers via our live interactive discussions on Zoom. Learn and build together, share feedback and compare notes with each other. You will be able to tap into your cohort after the course ends. Let's have some fun through every step!

A network of creative peers and leaders to elevate your impact

Drive breakthrough innovation using creative problem-solving techniques and effective stakeholder management with multidisciplinary teams.

Kevin Bethune

Founder & Chief Creative Officer, dreams • design + life  |  Best-selling Author, Reimagining Design

Cohort 3

Cohort 4

Thriving as a leader requires a mindset shift and mastery of self-leadership, team management, and resource optimization. This course is specifically designed for middle managers to transform how they lead themselves and their teams. Throughout the program, you will engage with the six most relevant leadership topics developing a leadership mindset, mastering self-leadership, giving and receiving effective feedback, managing up and across, adopting a coaching approach as a manager, and leveraging emotional intelligence for stronger leadership. These core areas provide the foundation to navigate challenges, build confidence, and drive sustainable results. By the end of this course, you'll have the skills, strategies, and mindset to lead with impact, inspire your team, and advance your career.

Being a middle manager is exciting but comes with unique challenges.

<ul><li>The four mindset shifts every leader needs to make to succeed in leading oneself and others.</li></ul> <ul><li>Best practices to successfully manage the transition into a leadership role, to effectively lead former peers, and to successfully collaborate and manage up.</li></ul>

Leadership Mindset | Foundation for Success in Leadership

<ul><li>Four levels of feedback</li></ul> <ul><li>Types of feedback that work, &amp; feedback pitfalls to avoid.</li></ul> <ul><li>Strategies and practices to help you receive feedback from your direct reports, your peers, and your managers.</li></ul>

Effective Feedback that Empowers and Transforms

<ul><li>Skills to coach for better performance. </li></ul> <ul><li>Coaching practices that empower your team to perform better.</li></ul>

Coaching for Better Performance

<ul><li>Importance of emotional intelligence in effective leadership. </li></ul> <ul><li>Understanding emotions in your day-to-day leadership practices and how to solve problems through the lens of compassion.</li></ul>

Emotional Intelligence | Leading with Compassion

Live Session 01: Leadership Mindset | Foundation for Success in Leadership

Week 1 

Live Session 02: Effective Feedback that Empowers and Transforms

Week 2

Live Session 03: Coaching for Better Performance

Week 3

Live Session 04: Emotional Intelligence | Leading with Compassion

Week 4 

To make the most of this course, we recommend you spend about 2 hours weekly (in addition to the 2 hours live classes) to complete the self-paced activities, exercises, and have a reflection and think time.

Weekly Activity & Think Time

Develop a leadership mindset with four key shifts that drive success in leading yourself and others.

Master best practices to transition into leadership, lead former peers effectively, and collaborate while managing up.

Build skills to give and receive empowering feedback that drives transformation and team growth.

Learn coaching techniques that enhance team performance through live classes, role plays, and assessments.

Understand and apply emotional intelligence to navigate leadership challenges with empathy and problem-solving.

This course is for you if you are a middle manager and you want to

Key Leadership Skills You’ll Master

Learn the four key mindset shifts every leader must make to successfully lead themselves and others. Discover how to embody these mindsets to build confidence, resilience, and influence.

Develop a Leadership Mindset

Gain practical strategies to navigate the transition into leadership, lead former peers effectively, and build strong relationships with senior leaders through effective collaboration and managing up.

Master Collaboration and Managing Up

Understand different feedback styles and learn how to deliver and receive feedback that fosters trust, empowers your team, and drives meaningful transformation.

Give and Receive Feedback That Drives Growth

Through live classes, role plays, and assessments, develop coaching techniques that inspire, guide, and elevate your team’s performance for long-term success.

Coach Your Team for High Performance

Deepen your understanding of emotional intelligence and its role in leadership. Learn to navigate challenges, build strong connections, and solve problems with empathy and self-awareness.

Leverage Emotional Intelligence for Effective Leadership

A Leadership Mastery program with live classes, role plays, & proven strategies to help middle managers elevate leadership and drive impact

Lightning Lessons

Your Change Leadership Journey: Not a Walk in the Park