Change has become a permanent part of leadership. Strategies need to be translated into action faster, organizations must adapt, AI and new technologies are reshaping ways of working and competitive conditions, and new demands emerge before the latest change has fully taken hold.
But even the best strategy does not create results on its own.
What matters is whether the organization can turn strategy into action, create engagement, and make the new direction take root.
Building a Change Ready Organization gives you the insight and tools to strengthen exactly this capability.
Is this programme relevant for you?
The programme is designed for leaders who are responsible for making major strategic or organizational changes succeed – and who recognize that the challenge is not only about strategy, structure, or processes.
Perhaps:
- your organization is going through a major strategic transformation
- a new strategy needs to be translated into concrete action
- you are implementing AI or new technology and need to bring the organization with you
- you are experiencing resistance to a change that makes perfect sense on paper
- you want to develop or change the organizational culture
- you need to build collaboration and support across the organization
- your company is facing a merger, acquisition, or major organizational change
- your environment is changing so rapidly that the organization needs to adapt faster
If you recognize one or more of these situations, this programme is designed for you.
INSEAD professor Spencer Harrisson: Why participate in this programme?
What are your take aways?
Over four intensive days, you will gain new knowledge, practical methods, and hands-on experience that you can apply directly in your own organization.
A broader repertoire for leading change
You will learn how to select and combine different approaches to change rather than automatically relying on the same model every time. Using the Adaptive Change Model, you will become better equipped to assess what each specific situation requires.
A sharper eye for the barriers that stand in the way
You will learn to identify the organizational and human factors that can slow down change – even when they are not visible in the strategy, structure, or organizational chart.
The ability to work actively with culture
You will gain methods for understanding the difference between the culture an organization says it has and the culture that actually shapes everyday behaviour – and for working with the culture needed to support the strategy.
Stronger relationships and partnerships
You will explore how trust, collaboration, and strong partnerships can create the support needed to bring people along through difficult change.
New perspectives on creativity and AI
You will gain insight into how AI is changing the conditions for strategy and innovation – and how creative leadership can create new opportunities and differentiation in a world where more and more knowledge and analysis are available to everyone.
From insight to concrete action
Throughout the programme, you will work with a current challenge from your own organization and leave with concrete ideas and actions that you can put into practice.
Four areas that strengthen your capacity for change
The programme brings together four perspectives that collectively strengthen your ability to create and embed change:
01 — Adaptive Change
Learn to adapt your leadership style and change strategy to the specific situation.
02 — Organizational Culture
Understand and influence the lived culture that ultimately determines whether strategy is translated into action.
03 — Partnerships
Strengthen relationships, trust, and collaboration – both internally and externally.
04 — Creativity & AI
Develop your ability to identify new opportunities and create differentiation in an AI-driven world.
You work with your own reality
The programme is highly practical. You will not only work with cases from other organizations, but also with the challenges you are facing yourself.
Through cases, exercises, reflection, and dialogue with other experienced leaders, you will have the opportunity to test new approaches and challenge your own assumptions and leadership habits.
You do not just learn about change. You work with it.
The aim is that after four days, you will have a deeper understanding of what it takes to create momentum – along with concrete actions you can take back to your organization.
Where research meets reality
The programme combines the latest research in organizational behaviour, culture, creativity, and change leadership with insights and experience from international leaders and organizations.
Spencer Harrison, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, is the Programme Director and provides the academic thread throughout the programme.
He is joined by international experts, including Barbara Coppola, former CEO of Decathlon, and Axel Unger, a creative leader with more than 25 years of experience in AI-driven innovation.
Building a Change Ready Organization
Four intensive days for leaders who want to strengthen their own and their organization’s ability to create, lead, and embed change.
