This intensive program is designed for the modern change leader. Through simulation exercises, case studies, and peer coaching, we challenge your assumptions, provide new perspectives, and equip you with practical tools to drive change, engage employees, and deliver lasting results.
You work on your own strategic challenges, develop your leadership style, and leave with a clear action plan that connects strategy and culture—ensuring that change truly makes an impact.
Program content
An integrated model for modern change leadership
Participants describe the programme as a transformative experience where time flies and minds fill with new ideas and practical tools. It’s intensive, inspiring and concrete – designed to challenge your assumptions and give you fresh perspectives on change leadership.
Your leadership efforts after the programme will connect strategic initiatives with organisational culture, so culture supports rather than undermines your strategic objectives.
Understanding why change fails
We begin by creating clarity through a specially designed simulation where we experience how even well-founded changes can go wrong. The experience is eye-opening and immediately creates fresh understanding of change complexity. We then introduce the integrated change model built on four fundamentally different families of change approaches, enabling you to analyse your own patterns and discover new possibilities.
Foundations: Create momentum and overcome resistance
We explore four different approaches: emotional, analytical, empathetic and narrative. Through intensive workshops and cases, you learn to read resistance more nuancedly and develop concrete skills to re-engage sceptics. Participants often experience “aha moments” when they understand why previous approaches weren’t sufficient.
Design and mobilisation: From plan to action
Should you be structured or iterative? Top-down or participatory? We systematically compare different design philosophies through cases and simulations. You work intensively with your own strategic challenges and receive feedback from both facilitators and fellow participants. Many describe these sessions as particularly inspiring and practically applicable.
Personal leadership development through action
The programme is designed to reveal your leadership preferences and blind spots. Through continuous reflection and feedback, you discover new aspects of your leadership style. You gain concrete tools to develop your approach and practise them in safe yet realistic exercises. It’s both personally developmental and professionally strengthening.
Sustainability: Making change permanent
Most changes fade over time. We focus on feedback systems that work and sustainability strategies that endure. You build concrete sustainability layers into your changes and learn to maintain momentum without constant management intervention. The tools are practical and immediately implementable.
Working with your concrete challenges
Throughout the programme, you work with your own strategic and leadership challenges. In Practice Lab sessions, you receive peer coaching and expert feedback on your specific challenges. You don’t leave with general theories, but with tailored solutions for your organisational realities.
Fresh insights
The programme gives you ongoing opportunities to identify which new insights are relevant for you to deploy going forward. The experience of witnessing your own development across 2 modules and 6 days is powerful and motivating. You conclude with a concrete action plan for your work and clear understanding of which tools suit which situations.
For the modern change leader
This programme combines INSEAD’s academic excellence with intense, practical learning. You’ll leave with your mind full of new ideas, concrete tools and a transformed approach to change leadership. Many describe it as one of the most inspiring and practically applicable leadership development experiences they’ve had.
