Leading Change in Organizations, April 21-22, 2022

Workshop

Leading Change in Organizations

This workshop will explore when and why change may be necessary, identify common causes for failures, and review best practices that can be applied to overcome resistance and enhance the probability of the success and sustainability of change initiatives.

Leading Change in Organizations

Change is inevitable and a business reality for everyone. There is a direct correlation between change success and the work we do in leading the people-side. Leading Change in Organizations is a workshop that equips participants with knowledge, skills and tools to confidently and effectively lead people and teams through organizational change. Our workshop will help you learn how to effectively implement changes in your company. This workshop will explore when and why change may be necessary, identify common causes for failures, and review best practices that can be applied to overcome resistance and enhance the probability of the success and sustainability of change initiatives.

Dates: September 15-16, 2022

Venue: offline (at Nazarbayev University)

Price: 210 000 KZT* (discounts are available - check with the manager for details)

For whom?

Heads of Organizations and Structural Units;

Leaders and Managers of Projects;

Managers responsible for transformation and change;

HR specialist and others.

What will you learn?

Assessing the need for changes and their role in the development of organizations

Choosing the tools necessary for successful implementation of changes

Identifying causes of failure

Effectively overcoming resistance to change

Making change initiatives sustainable and being able to manage them

Program Faculty

Loretta O’Donnell

Vice-Provost, Academic Affairs

PhD in Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

Dr. O’Donnell has over twenty years of experience in teaching Executive MBA, postgraduate and undergraduate business students in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales (UNSW) located in Sydney, Australia. As an elected faculty member of the UNSW Academic Board, and as Associate Dean Education, she combined academic policy development and implementation with her teaching, learning and research interests. She was Program Director for the UNSW AGSM Graduate Certificate in Change Management and for the Masters of Commerce program. Dr. O’Donnell has won awards for her teaching and for research on human capital analysis in financial markets.

Previously, she consulted in organizational change for a large global firm in Sydney and Chicago, and in a boutique firm specializing in developing management systems to sustain change. Loretta obtained her PhD in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

Program Faculty

Timothy Wawn

Instructor

MBA, Australian Graduate School of Management

Tim is an Instructor in Entrepreneurship and Management at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business. He holds a Masters’ degree in Economics from Macquarie University and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Tim possesses over 20 years’ experience as MD/CEO of listed and private companies and has been involved in a wide range of start-up enterprises as a CEO, Director and/or investor. He has broad experience working in international markets, particularly the United States and Central Asia and has over 10 years’ experience as a public company director. He possesses extensive experience in the commercialization of new technologies, business development and business transformation.

SEE ALL CONTACTS

Gulnar Yermagambetova

Senior Manager

+7 (7172) 70 64 60

gsb.exed@nu.edu.kz

Aigerim Zholmyrza

Manager

+7 (7172) 70 53 67

gsb.exed@nu.edu.kz