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Northwestern University: Strategic Change Management

Establish a competitive advantage through your organization’s ability to adapt to change.

Establish a competitive advantage through your organization’s ability to adapt to change.

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This course is offered by , an edX partner
8 weeks
4–6 hours per week
Starts Mar 12, 2025
Enroll by Mar 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
8 weeks
4–6 hours per week
Starts Mar 12, 2025
Enroll by Mar 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

In today’s constantly shifting market, organizational change has become unavoidable. Transformative technology, business innovation, and global competition have made adaptability vital for companies that want to remain competitive in their industry. This includes having managers with the ability to perceive change in the marketplace, and who are able to pivot strategy and retool an organization, not just to remain relevant but to thrive.

The Kellogg Executive Education Strategic Change Management online program teaches you how to achieve and nurture sustainable change in your organization. You’ll gain the tools and insight to encourage creativity and implement change plans successfully. You’ll also learn to maintain strategic and organizational agility by creating a learning-ready company and effectively manage aversion to change.

This online program is aimed at professionals ready to support their organization in maintaining a competitive edge through the anticipation and management of change. It will, therefore, be beneficial to senior and middle management who want to foster change in their company, as well as those in a specific change management role. While this program is geared towards those in medium to large organizations, it will also be highly relevant for leaders of small organizations who want to effectively manage growth and scaling. It is also valuable to seniors in the human resources (HR) department — those who are traditionally responsible for these developments — looking for deeper strategic insight into change management beyond their current understanding.

Course curriculum

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Explore change management strategy and implementation as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Formulating a strategy for change

Module 2: Organizing for change

Module 3: Metrics and motivating for change

Module 4: Organizing for execution and innovation

Module 5: Building and leading learning-ready organizations

Module 6: Becoming and remaining agile

Module 7: Managing resistance to change

Module 8: Making change sustainable

About the certificate

Create a strategy for change and earn an official digital certificate of completion from Kellogg Executive Education.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

75%

The number of organizations that are set to initiate multiple types of change in the near future; only a third of all change initiatives are a clear success.

Gartner (Nd). Accessed November 9, 2021.

$2 trillion

The amount lost in the United States each year to failed change management initiatives.

Forbes (Aug, 2020).


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