Architect Successful Change Program™
Why manage the change when you can architect the change? Learn how you can move from reactive to proactive, from tactical to strategic for change success.
Available as 1:1 Coaching Program or Group Training Program
Introducing a new way to build your change and transformation capabilities.
Managing change often involves reacting to issues as they arise, which can lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. By architecting change, you take a proactive, strategic approach that ensures every aspect of the change initiative is carefully planned and executed. This approach allows you to design a clear blueprint for the future, aligning resources, identifying risks early, and engaging stakeholders effectively. Architecting change not only leads to more sustainable and successful outcomes but also fosters a unified vision and smoother transitions within your change context or organisation.
Master the concepts, frameworks, and tools to design a proactive, strategic, purpose-driven, people-centred blueprint for your change or transformation initiative.
During this program, you will develop your change and leadership skills in real time, applying them to your current change initiative or challenge.
Uplift your change and leadership capabilities in real-time
The Architect Successful Change Program™ is an iterative 7-module experience designed to advance your efforts within your current change context or scenario.
This program will uplift your capabilities in the following key areas:
Diagnose your change capabilities and that of your organisation
Apply an evidence-based and human-centred approach
Connect the change to strategy and outcomes
Identify and manage change risks
Create conditions for change readiness
Implement successful and sustainable change
Measure change success
Apply your Modern Mindset strengths and determine areas for growth.
Key benefits
Build your understanding of the complexities of implementing change
Gain practical knowledge and skills to execute successful change in your current context
Enhance your confidence to design and implement successful change initiatives
Enhance ability to engage and communicate to stakeholders throughout the change process using human-centred approaches
Apply Modern Mindset and positive psychology theories to advance change efforts
Consolidate your learning and create a forward action plan for your change initiative.
In a world where change is constant and inevitable, being the difference means taking a proactive stance and shaping the future rather than merely adapting to it.
Program outline
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During this module, you will diagnose key strengths and establish a strong foundation for broadening and building individual and collective change capabilities.
What are your realised and unrealised change capabilities and strengths?
What is the level of capability maturity in your change context to execute change?
How strong are the change management value domains in your change context?
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During this module, you will build or strengthen the compelling case for change, get clarity of purpose, and align strategy to action to shape the direction of change efforts.
What is the imperative for change, including the emerging challenges, strategic importance and opportunities?
What are the dynamics in the change context?
What are the anticipated effects, advantages and benefits?
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During this module, you will leverage powerful design thinking techniques to architect change. This purpose-driven, people-centred approach focuses on delivering sustainable value and benefits and identifying and managing risks early.
What’s changing? What’s not changing? What is being left behind?
What enabling and sustaining changes are needed to achieve the outcomes and intended benefits?
Who is affected and how? How will they be engaged and participate in the change?
What are the change-related risks and mitigating actions?
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During this module you will apply methods and tools to develop detailed action plans and timelines for executing and tracking the change. You will learn how to motivate stakeholders and move them through the change stages. Emphasis is placed on complementary support to overcome obstacles, lower barriers to acceptance to drive change readiness.
What are the specific actions and resources needed to implement the change?
How will you engage and empower stakeholders?
How will you create and drive conditions of readiness?
How will you track progress, adjust and adapt?
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During this module, you will learn how to embed change into everyday operations, creating a solid foundation for immediate and long-term success.
How will you integrate changes into processes, policies, practices and culture?
How will you reinforce new behaviours and practices to ensure sustainability?
How can you use feedback and monitoring to track progress and guide adjustments?
How will you know if your change is tracking as planned?
How will you transition changes into business as usual?
How will you celebrate milestones and achievements to maintain momentum post-implementation?
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During this module, you will learn how to review change performance and outcomes, activate sustainment and continuous improvement initiatives and transfer ownership to business as usual. You will consolidate insights into an action plan.
How will you know if your change is tracking as planned?
How will you transition changes into business as usual?
How will you celebrate milestones and achievements to maintain momentum post-implementation?
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Prepare your 3-month plan and prioritise actions to address your change initiative or challenge
Review the improvement in your individual change capabilities, identify areas of strength and where you can continue to broaden and build knowledge, skills and experience
Review the change capability maturity of your current change context
Create a solid action plan to expand your capabilities and progress your change challenge.
Apply your learning to a current Change Initiative or
Change Challenge
What is a suitable Change Initiative or Change Challenge?
A suitable Change Initiative or Change Challenge would be a 12–18-month project with clear start and end dates. It includes distinct phases to implement changing or transforming people, processes, technology, data, equipment and/or security elements. The initiative has clear goals and links to strategic outcomes, identifiable benefits, and is understandable and relatable to the participant.
By applying learning to an existing Change Initiative or Change Challenge, you can apply your experience, perspective and tools to your current context, and leave the program with a solid action plan.
While this program is not a replacement for an intensive in-organisation consulting effort, its aim is to provide you with the basis for deploying your new skills and knowledge in the short term and preparing the foundation for longer-term change initiatives or challenges, initiatives, and projects.
Compare and choose your program
1:1 Coaching Program - Standard
Program induction and diagnostics (online)
6 Coaching sessions (online)
12-weeks duration
Guidance to formulate Action Plan (+2 weeks)
Moderate pace
Access to program content 6-months from commencement
Individual and context change diagnostics
Price $2,950
1:1 Coaching Program - Premium
Program induction and diagnostics (online)
6 Coaching sessions (online)
12-weeks duration
Guidance and iteration of Action Plan (+4 weeks)
Fast paced and iterative
Access to program content 12-months from commencement
Individual and change context diagnostics
Price $3,780
Group Training Intensive - Multi-day
2-day delivery (face-to-face)
2 expert facilitators
Change Initiative and Change Challenge planning prior to delivery
Scenario development (as required)
Production of the ‘Change Plan on a Page’ (training artefact)
Raw qualitative data pack AND analysis report post program
Program evaluation
Fast pace, intensive
Access to program content 12-months from commencement
Individual AND change context (organisational) diagnostics
Price on inquiry
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Participant Profile
Whether you are a leader, executive, change manager, program manager, consultant, newly trained practitioner, or team leader, the Architect Successful Change Program™ enables you to uplift your change capabilities like no other program. The program is designed to be highly relevant to your change context and designed to enhance your learning and retention through hands-on experience.
Newly Trained Change Practitioners
You may have recently completed training in change management and seek practical, real-world application of their skills.
Program and Project Managers
You are overseeing a program or project requiring comprehensive change planning and implementation. You want to broaden and build your change capabilities.
Leaders and Executives
You are in the early stages of designing a change or transformation, including business case development. You want to strategic plan and architect organisational change rather than mange it reactively.
Change and Communication Professionals
You are responsible for managing and implementing change for your organisation or business and need an experienced hand to coach and mentor you through the process.
Consultants
You are a professional in your domain and responsible for developing proposals that demonstrate understanding of the client’s needs and change context.
Team Leaders
Your organisation is changing, and you want to improve your skills so you can champion the change, and prepare and ready people for change.
FAQs
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To apply for the program, please contact Penny to discuss the selection process and ensure you fulfil the requirements and pre-requisites for the program, including discussing your Change Initiative or Change Challenge.
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You should allow up to 2 hours for online sessions. Depending on the complexity of the change initiative, plan to devote an additional 2-6 hours per fortnight to develop your Action Plan
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Your Coach plays an integral role in your learning, not only imparting information and providing guidance, but also stimulating thinking through powerful questioning. Your Coach will work closely with you to integrate your learning and develop your Action Plan.
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The schedule is flexible and sessions are arranged at times that suit the individual, based on Coach availability. All sessions are recorded for later review.
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Yes, organisations can enrol multiple employees. Special group rates are available for teams from the same organisation. Please contact us for more details.
Meet your Coach - Penny Ward
Meet Penny Ward
During times of change and transformation, how we lead ourselves and others matters.
Penny Ward empowers individuals to navigate and lead in a world that demands more from people than ever before. As the pace and scale of change accelerate, leaders and teams face increasing challenges in adapting and thriving. The journey through disruption is often both exciting and daunting, yet it’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters – the human element. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Penny unlocks the potential of leaders at all levels, enabling them to lead with purpose and make a positive impact through personal and organisational transformation. Her approach focuses on cultivating mindsets that shape and sustain the values, attitudes, and behaviours needed not just to survive, but to thrive as human beings in an ever-changing world.
