Navigating Change for Leaders

Organizational change is not easy.  Oftentimes it has challenges and is incumbent on strategic, thoughtful leadership. How you navigate change and support others to move through it is critical. 

This unique learning environment is intentionally designed to respond to your experience and help non-profit, community-based, and social purpose leaders, managers, and organizations navigate challenges, change, and opportunity successfully. You’ll gain tools to help strengthen your teams and encourage problem solving and creativity, so that you can collectively navigate and respond to innovation, challenges and current work priorities.

Learning Objectives:

Arrive with a change issue in hand, apply leading change management principles, approaches and frameworks and leave with an action plan that will energize and best support your teams and stakeholders so together your vision for change can be achieved.  

Module 1 (7 hours):

• Understand organizational change through the Change Curve and Bridges Transition Model;
• Analyze your change in more detail to better inform your problem solving and response(s);
• Develop the skills and script to participate in a change conversation based on principles of effective communication; and
• Explore the essential skills of a change leader, assess your own strengths and weaknesses and commit to actions or strategies to improve your capacity to lead through change.

Module 2 (7 hours):

• Examine how to most effectively navigate uncertainty and ambivalence;
• Embed resilience within your team(s) and your own leadership style;
• Explore the context of the change to leverage strengths and opportunities and mitigate limitations, and threats; 
• Begin to map out an action plan that helps you and your stakeholders to intentionally and strategically navigate change; and
• Reflect on the posture you want to embody as a change leader

For whom: For those supporting employees and/or partners through change or overseeing organizational change and looking to build a proactive response and plan through the transition.  

Prerequisite: Due to the applied nature of this course you will be required to commit to approximately 1 hour of self reflection in advance of the first module and approximately 2 hours of self-reflection in advance of the second module.

When: Tuesdays (biweekly) on May 1 and 15

• 7:00am - 2:00pm Pacific
• 8:00am - 3:00pm Mountain
• 9:00am - 4:00pm Central
• 10:00am - 5:00pm Eastern
• 11:00am - 6:00pm Atlantic
• 11:30am - 6:30pm Newfoundland

Limited Capacity: Please note that the course will be capped at 20 learners to ensure each participant has a high quality, engaging and impactful experience.

Course Fee:

Important Note on Program Accessibility

Increasing ease of access for people of every identity and ability is our priority. Closed captioning will be available. But, if there is a barrier preventing you from fully joining us for these sessions, we want to help! Additional accessibility accommodations may be made available by contacting Adriana at.

About the Facilitator

Suzanne Gibson “awakens the potential” of your organization to achieve its mandate and vision. Over the past 25 years, Suzanne has:

• inspired new and established organizations to “dream big,” unite around an idea and turn those dreams into reality
• uncovered creative solutions to complex social and organization problems
• mobilized diverse groups into strong teams
• facilitated and supported leaders, staff and volunteers to achieve their personal and collective potential
• applied her entrepreneurial flair to start up innovative new ventures
• equipped organizations to secure much-needed knowledge, skills and resources.

Suzanne will help you draw out the very best from your staff and stakeholders as you help create a better world.