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.
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
Description: How past winning mindsets and tools can become barriers in new and shifting environments.
Learning Objectives:
→ 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 to design and cultivate a team capable of navigating complex, high-stakes challenges together.
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
Description: How to create sound decision-making spaces when facing high uncertainty & complexity. Learning Objectives:
→ 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 Understand the unique challenges and opportunities of leading change in Saudi Arabia’s transformative era.
Learning Objectives:
→ Understand your own and others 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
Description: Introduction to a change framework that takes into account multiple perspectives that change agents need to adapt to deal with change effectively
Learning Objectives:
→ 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 will lay the groundwork for the change simulation and introduce a process framework to help you plan and execute your change intervention.
Learning Objectives:
→ Diagnose driving and restraining forces in a simulated change scenario
→ Know how to plan and execute change initiatives
Description: The session will focus on the change implementation , through the interaction of a computer based simulation teams will get immediate feedback on the implemented tactics and can adjust their measures
Learning Objectives:
→ 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.