LEADING & INSPIRING CHANGE

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

INSPIRE A NEW DIRECTION

Change is constant. It’s how you skillfully navigate the process that sets you apart. It is important to learn how to rapidly implement change and become more agile in these type of environments. Leading & Inspiring Change is designed to help you become a change agent and better understand reactions to change while elevating your overall skill set. You will learn how to create buy-in and direct major strategic shifts within your organization.

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How it Works

Change with Confidence

Explore change models and frameworks to help uncover opportunities for positive change in your organization and strengthen your skills in overcoming the natural resistance to change. Learn how to build buy-in and raise morale, increase productivity, and lead the change process.

Over the course of 4 sessions, you’ll explore methods for identifying opportunities for change, change models and frameworks. You’ll look at how the change process works, including methods designed to help you anticipate both acceptance and resistance to change and how best to manage expectations. This course applies to the Certificate of Excellence in Business and the Roberto C. Goizueta Leadership Certificate.
How it Works

  • Lead Change During Uncertain Times

    Explore the current state of your organization to identify to change opportunities and respond with an agile change approach in a rapidly evolving business climate

  • Build a Change Framework

    Understand approaches to mapping change strategies and frameworks for executing successful change initiatives

  • Organizational Impact

    Uncover your organization’s culture, its anticipated acceptance of change initiatives and the impact of change on the organizational ecosystem

  • Overcome Obstacles

    Identify strategies and tactics to uncover and overcome resistance to change, gain acceptance of new approaches and drive positive change

Professional Development Goals

  • Examine Change Management

    Build practical frameworks for managing change by understanding and practicing tactics for influencing change in your organization.

  • Reduce Change Fatigue

    Understand the change process in the context of your organization’s culture so you can predict areas of resistance and develop strategies to reduce uncertainty and change fatigue.

  • Achieve Buy-in

    Utilize change management frameworks to organize initiatives and gain broad-based support in order to lead through an environment of constant change.

Faculty Spotlight

  • Peter Topping

    Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management

    Experience-driven understanding and insights

    Peter’s expertise spans leadership, organizational change, human capital strategy and management, leading high-performance teams, cross-cultural leadership, negotiations, and conflict management. His courses include insights from working with organizational clients across industries, national boundaries, firm sizes, and sectors. As a consultant and executive coach, he understands the challenges facing today’s leading executives and offers practical knowledge that takes leadership to the next level.

  • Karl Kuhnert

    Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management

    Putting the “development” into leadership development

    Karl has built a career centered on growing executive talent. His expertise spans leadership development and assessment, decision-making AI, organizational change and development, and survey design and evaluation. Karl’s approach eclipses typical coursework by accelerating leaders’ maturation in how they see themselves and others, enabling them to become better leaders. He brings diverse consulting expertise – international companies, non-profits, and government – into the classroom, helping leaders foster stronger teams and develop more productive cultures.

  • Molly Epstein

    Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management

    Proven leader in communications and professional development—fluent in both

    Molly brings her expertise on change communication and intergenerational communication to bear in the negotiations and communications courses she teaches. Her grounding in business and language helps students speak the language of business confidently. Molly is known for her work in gender communication and consults regularly with Delta Air Lines. As Scholar-in-Residence at the Southeast’s fourth largest public accounting firm, she manages personnel development for its 1,000+ professionals. This expands her understanding of current challenges and opportunities facing today’s executives.

  • Richard Berlin

    Affiliate Faculty

    Specialist in strategic planning, organization development, and team effectiveness

    Richard Berlin is the North America Market Lead for Change Enablement at Avanade, a division of Accenture, and brings nearly 30 years of experience in business consulting. His areas of expertise include strategic planning, organization development, change management, board governance, team building, leadership development, new business start ups, and operations. Richard’s experience includes a successful track record with self-funded businesses, venture capital businesses, public companies, and non-profit organizations.

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Special Pricing

*Emory Executive Education offers special pricing for select constituents:
o Goizueta Business School Alumni/Faculty/Staff
o Emory University Alumni/Faculty/Staff
o Government and Non-Profit
o Veterans
o Group/Multiple
o Custom Clients

Please contact us for more information about our special pricing or to receive your code before you register.

We also offer flexible payment options through Emory Alliance Credit Union. Emory Alliance Credit Union has created an unsecured line of credit for Emory Executive Education participants to assist with the cost of courses:
o Minimum amount: $1,000; maximum amount: $15,000
o 12 months interest only—the balance on the 13th month will be amortized over 36 months
o Interest rate is prime + 4%*
o A monthly billing notice will be mailed to you
o Credit Union membership is required

For more information, call 404-329-6415 (Option 3), or visit emoryacu.com to find a branch near you.
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