Hello, thank you for joining me. We're here to explore the solution to one of the biggest ongoing challenges every organization faces today how to lead change successfully. My name is Chris edge Lowe. I'm with two organizations, a consulting firm and a publishing company. That's a picture of me in the office. I've spent the last three decades of my career helping people in organizations change.

My client base, literally spans the world that includes all three sectors. public private nonprofit, includes organizations that range from 10s of thousands of employees that have a presence around the world to small local organizations under 100 people. Over that time I've worked with hundreds of executives and managers and project teams and thousands of employees. The theme or the common thread that weaves throughout all of my projects is something significant is changing. It's usually many significant things are changing. And the situation is a challenge.

It's not going according to plan. I've got a graduate degree in applied behavioral sciences where I learned a lot about the art and the science and the theory of systems leadership and change. That Foundation has given me a good basis to draw from, as I've developed my own ideas and written and published lots of articles and booklets workbooks and so on over my career. I put some resources together to help you get the most out of this course. All the slides are there for you to print off and you can print them off however many slides you want per page. I just want to make sure that you don't have to worry about taking theory notes, there will be an opportunity that I'm going to ask you to put a pencil to paper.

And those are worksheets and I would invite you to print the worksheets off one worksheet per page, which will give you lots of room to expand and make some notes. This is the opportunity to apply the ideas that I'm sharing to your particular situation. I've also put together an article called changing the way organizations change that you will find insightful shares some ideas that this whole program expands on significantly, perhaps the best resource I would encourage you to get with you is to bring some colleagues from your organization together to take this program as a group. Now that might be other managers in your particular department. It could be a group of managers from a variety of different departments might only be just one other person. But I've learned over the years that these ideas are best shared, we all have our own perspectives on things and everybody that's in the same situation has a different perspective, sharing those perspectives is very, very valuable.

So that's another set of resources I would encourage you to get a hold of and have with you. As we wander through this program, the ideas that we will share are relatively straightforward. We're going to explore the core competencies involved in leading change from an integrated approach. And those core competencies are strategy, change, transition and communication. And you're going to get a lot more about those things in depth as we move forward. We're going to outline a variety of views of the whole system in which your organization exists.

To get a good idea of the current context, the current environment your organization exists within. When it learn how to simplify and engage The strategic message that's required to drive all of the changes successfully, we'll determine how to one line and implement successful change. We're going to explore how to lead people through transition. And we'll do some in depth work around ensuring that your communication is up to the challenge. And it truly does engage everyone throughout the system. And lastly, we're going to draw a map of where all of your people in the organization are on the change journey, if you will, and finish off a plan that we're going to build throughout our time together to keep everyone moving forward together.

So get some colleagues with you. Put the coffee on, print off the worksheets in the slides, and we'll get to work again. Thank you for joining me