Leading Change That Sticks

What you will be able to do

• Diagnose why a previous change failed before designing the next
• Map stakeholders by actual influence rather than org chart
• Sequence a change so early wins fund later ones
• Detect within weeks whether adoption is real

Skills this course develops

Each maps to the same taxonomy your organization’s roles are defined in, so progress here moves your skill profile.

• Change Management
• Organizational Design
• Strategic Thinking
• Coaching

About this course

Elena Rivera has killed more programs than she has launched and is candid about why. This course covers diagnosis before design, stakeholder work, sequencing, and the measurement that tells you early whether a change is taking hold.

Requirements

• Experience leading a team or a program

Your instructors

Elena Rivera

VP of Learning & Organizational Development, Kestrel Health Group

4.9Rated 4.9 out of 561.2K learners5 courses

Elena has spent nineteen years building learning functions inside organizations that could not afford to get it wrong — first in hospital systems, now across a 40,000-person health network. She is unusually blunt about what does not work: she has killed more programs than she has launched. Her courses are built around the diagnostic questions she asks before designing anything, and every module ends with an artifact you can take into your next planning cycle.

Prof. Peter Whitfield

Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Ellsworth Business School

4.8Rated 4.8 out of 5118K learners4 courses

Peter has taught leadership to MBA cohorts for twenty-six years and consults with boards on succession. He is sceptical of most leadership content, including some of his own earlier work, and says so on camera. What he offers instead is a body of evidence and a set of exercises that hold up under pressure. His case discussions are the reason his courses have the highest completion rate on Bhavyaruni.

What learners say

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  Yuki NakamuraData Scientist

  Rated 5.0 out of 55 months ago

  The instructor is honest about what does not work, which is rarer than it should be. There is a whole lesson on a failed approach and why it failed. I learned more from that than from most successful case studies.

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  Aisha RahmanConsultant

  Rated 4.0 out of 59 months ago

  Strong material and well produced. I would have liked more exercises in the later modules — the earlier ones set a high bar and the end feels slightly lecture-heavy by comparison.

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  Daniel OkoroSenior Engineer

  Rated 5.0 out of 58 months ago

  I have started a lot of courses like this and finished about two. The difference here is that every module ends with something I could take straight into work the next morning. The lab in module three is worth the price on its own.

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