Where to begin… join Change Management Fundamentals

4th & 5th March 2025 Sydney

A two-day, certificate program for change management and project professionals.

This is an introductory course.  If you have started recently in a change management role, looking to get into change management, or just improving your change skills, this course may be for you.

Learn practical tips, techniques and tools.  The course will provide some considerations on how to modify your approach when in a hybrid working environment.

In-person, two-day session in Sydney, followed-up by three online coaching sessions

Learn with a network of peers and be placed with a mentor after the coaching sessions

Class sizes are deliberately limited in size to encourage interactions and activity. Participants bring with them a change initiative that they are currently working on and develop an action plan during the program.

Register now for our session in Sydney:

  • 4 & 5 March (Tue & Wed)

Get in touch with Doug to find out more about this great 2 day course.

  • This program provides you with professional development, positioning you as a more effective change practitioner.  Participants will:

    1. Discover the complexities of implementing change in organisations

    2. Understand the key considerations for building an end-to-end change roadmap

    3. Gain new insights on contemporary change models and their application

    4. Develop new connections with others in the course as a peer support network

    5. Create a personal development plan to improve your change management knowledge and skillset

    6. Follow up with a mentor that can help with understanding change fundamentals and career pathways 

    7. Receive a certificate from a credible change management community organisation

    • Change practitioners – change managers, change analysts, communication managers, learning & development specialists

    • Project professionals - business analysts, project managers, agile coaches, PMO specialists, IT project professionals

    • Managers and leaders - product owners, managers supporting their teams going through change, HR business partners

    • Anyone else looking to move into a change management role

  • Course facilitator:  Doug Wolfson (LinkedIn profile)

    The Change Management Fundamentals Course is facilitated by Doug Wolfson, a Director of Rethink Change and an adjunct faculty member at the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW).  Previously, as a senior leader, he led the Westpac change management practice, providing leadership for over 250 change practitioners who delivered initiatives across an annual $1.5 Billion Westpac project delivery portfolio.  

    He is a recognised leader in the discipline of change management within Australia and one of the co-founders of the Change Management Institute, serving on the CMI board from 2005-2010.  

    Doug has over 25 years, hands-on change management experience working with some of Australia's most iconic brands, such as, the ABC, AMP, Anglicare, Boral, Department of Defence, Guide Dogs, Qantas, University of Sydney, Westpac, and Woolworths.

  • "Thanks so much for such a fabulous course.  This exceeded my expectations."

    "This training was really helpful for me to connect the dots.  I’ve recently started as a change manager and was mostly focused on deliverables without really understanding some of the change management fundamentals."

    "Doug is obviously VERY experienced, and this shows in the ways he approaches the course and is able to talk to the content. This is extremely useful and adds a level of confidence to the people who attend."

    "I can apply much of what I learned in the course.  The session was very practical and Doug made it easy to apply the content for my own change initiative."

    • Learn a framework to manage change and mechanisms to drive user adoption

      Apply human-centred design perspectives to co-create your change roadmap

      Understand the importance of leadership in change, leveraging the organisational hierarchy and informal influence networks

      Communicate your change narrative drawing from behavioural science approaches

      Understand responses to change and how to address resistance, applying learnings from neuroscience

      Consider utilising agile methods and an agility mindset

      Harness AI for different elements in the end-to-end change process

      Demonstrate the value of change management and how you can promote the importance as part of a comprehensive user adoption approach

    Learn practical tips, techniques and tools.  The course will provide some considerations on how to modify your approach when in a hybrid working environment.

  • Investment:  $1,850 (plus GST and booking fees)

    Duration:  Two-day face-to-face sessions in Sydney followed by three online coaching sessions 

    Course dates:

    4 & 5 March 2025

    Venue: Cliftons, Level 13 / 60 Margaret Street Sydney

    Discounts are available for two or more people attending in the same session. 

     In-house training programs can be customised for your teams and incorporate your organisation's project templates.  

    Other in-person locations, outside of Sydney are available - please enquire.

    Minimum Enrolment Requirement:  The course will proceed only if we reach a minimum number of participants. If the required number is not met, we will notify you as soon as possible.

    Refund Policy:  In the event that the course does not go ahead due to insufficient enrolment, you will receive a full refund of your course fees.