Leading Through Transformation
Course Overview
This executive program for senior leaders navigates the unprecedented changes sweeping Saudi Arabia. In the era of Vision 2030, leaders are called to be more than reform implementers: they must become architects of transformation who redefine how their organizations think, work, and lead. This program equips them with the mindset and methods required to deliver results in high-ambition environment
Key Takeaways
Course Outline
Description: How to recognize and leverage uncertainty and paradox as strategic tools in complex environments, and how past winning mindsets and tools can become barriers in new and shifting environments.
+ Learning Objectives:
→ Recognize the defining features of complex problems
→ Understand why certainty-seeking behaviors fail in ambiguous contexts
→ Develop comfort with uncertainty as a leadership asset rather than a weakness
→ Identify the cognitive and behavioral patterns reinforced by past success
→ Understand how familiar frameworks create blind spots in novel contexts
→ Recognize early signals that a context shift demands a new approach
Description: How past winning mindsets and tools can become barriers in new and shifting environments, and how to create sound decision-making spaces when facing high uncertainty and complexity.
+ Learning Objectives:
→ Define the capabilities needed to lead through complexity
→ Identify gaps and biases within existing team compositions
→ Build collective sense-making practices across the team
→ Distinguish between decision-making models suited to stable vs. volatile contexts
→ Design conditions that improve judgment quality under stress
→ Build reflective routines to learn and adapt from decisions made under pressure
Description: Explore change management and the unique challenges and opportunities of leading change in Saudi Arabia’s transformative era, alongside an introduction to a change framework that incorporates multiple perspectives for change agents.
+ Learning objectives:
→ Understand your own and other assumptions about change
→ Apply frameworks to diagnose a real-world change challenge thru Analyzing a Change Case
→ Team presentations: Case Analysis
→ Present findings and receive peer/instructor feedback
→ Learn to adopt diverse perspectives (e.g., cultural, structural, human) to tackle change challenges.
→ Frameworks for change: Adopting Multiple Perspectives
→ Work in groups to apply frameworks to your own change challenge and draft an action plan.
Description: This session focuses on change implementation and introduces a process framework for planning and executing change interventions. Through interaction with a computer-based simulation, teams receive immediate feedback on their implemented tactics and can continuously adjust their approach.
+ Learning Objectives:
→ Diagnose driving and restraining forces in a simulated change scenario
→ Know how to plan and execute change initiatives
→ Diagnose driving and restraining forces in a simulated change scenario
→ Know how to plan and execute change initiatives
→ Change Management Simulation: Case analysis and theory
Who Should Attend?
This executive program for senior leaders navigates the unprecedented changes sweeping Saudi Arabia. In the era of Vision 2030, leaders are called to be more than reform implementers: they must become architects of transformation who redefine how their organizations think, work, and lead. This program equips them with the mindset and methods required to deliver results in high-ambition environments marked by uncertainty, complexity, and intense performance pressure.