Leading Breakthrough Change
A Practical Framework for Driving Transformation
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About This Course
Driving change is an essential leadership skill. But big, breakthrough organizational change is prone to failure, resistance and cultural inertia. This Learning Sprint examines how to both drive a large change initiative and actively participate in a change process initiated by others. It explores several key elements and challenges inherent to all change initiatives: change is hard, resistance is high, and leadership buy-in is critical. This Sprint walks participants through a change framework during which they’ll prepare the organization for change, create a change plan, and make the change stick.
Activities in this Sprint emphasize the “how” of change rather than the “what.” The “what” is often dictated by strategic, financial, or marketing considerations. By focusing on the “how,” you will be better equipped to effectively drive the change process (when you are a principal agent of change) and support the change process (when it is initiated by others).
Together, your team will work to answer the question: How can we maximize the probability that our change initiatives will succeed in driving breakthrough business outcomes?
Expert Faculty

Dave Pottruck
Executive, Educator, Author
Course Features
100% Online Course Platform
30 Minutes Per Day
Leadership Coaching
World-Class Expert Teaching
Community of Practice
What You Will Learn
Leverage the “how” of change, rather than the “what,” to effectively drive change
Prepare your organization for change
Create an environment conducive to enterprise-wide change
What You Will Do
Learn why change is hard, risky, and prone to failure
Understand how to identify and overcome resistance and barriers to change
Explore the nine-step framework that you can use to manage breakthrough change
Course Overview
Week One
Conceptualizing Change
- Change is Hard, Breakthrough Change is Harder
- The People Side of Change
- The Conceptualizing Stage
Week Two
Planning and Implementing Change
- Introduction to the Planning Stage
- Barriers to Change
- Measuring Change
- The Implementation Team
Week Three
Action Planning
- Putting the Plan Into Action
- Leadership Communication
- Bringing It All Together
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