Kotter Training Courses & Certifications
Master the Art & Science of Change
The Kotter Change Certification Program empowers leaders, managers, and teams with practical tools and proven methodologies to navigate complex transformations successfully.
The training programs build on decades of research by Dr John Kotter and the Kotter team, and real-world application—ensuring participants can effectively lead and manage change, and create a culture that embraces it.
Earn Core & Advanced Kotter Change Certifications
Select the learning path that aligns with your change leadership goals to earn course completion and certification badges.
Course Overviews
- Foundations of Change
- Engaging Stakeholders to Spark a Movement
- Selling Your Case for Change
- Essential Change Toolkit
- Accelerating Results
- Achieving Lasting Change
Course 1: Foundations of Change
- Articulate the Science of Change and how this impacts change efforts within your organization
- Explain Kotter’s 8 Accelerators and 4 Change Leadership Principles
- Apply core principles of effective change to your own change initiative(s) and identify ways to enhance your success
- Craft a concrete Action Plan for advancing your individual change initiative(s)
Course 2: Engaging Stakeholders to Spark a Movement
- Apply core principles of effective change to your own change initiative(s) and identify ways to enhance your success
- Recognize behaviors that occur when people are on board, truly urgent, and actively supporting a change
- More effectively engage others in change by addressing their diverse needs, with an emphasis on building an increased sense of urgency
- Articulate why a Guiding Coalition is uniquely positioned as an essential driver for successful change
- Recruit and engage a diverse set of people who can have the greatest impact on guiding the successful realization of the change
- Craft a concrete Action Plan for advancing your individual change initiative(s)
Course 3: Selling Your Case for Change
- Apply core principles of effective change to your own change initiative(s) and identify ways to enhance your success
- Create a compelling and inspiring vision for how things will be different once the change is implemented
- Provide clarity for the actions and efforts needed to spark early contributions to executing the change
- Apply a simple model and practical techniques for buy-in for your change
- Expand awareness of the degree of buy-in you have achieved and how to overcome buy-in gaps
- Assume a greater leadership role in the implementation of change
- Shape a well-thought-out Action Plan to get buy-in
Course 4: Essential Change Toolkit
- Utilize a framework that can help you enable action from more people
- Identify the most likely sources of change barriers for your projects and initiatives
- Apply various tools and techniques that can help overcome barriers to change
- Develop effective stakeholder engagement plans
- Create a communication plan that supports the stakeholder engagement
- Articulate the structural and systemic barriers to change and how to start to overcome them
Course 5: Accelerating Results
- Explain how wins motivate teams and create momentum in the context of change.
- Lead, engineer, and encourage wins.
- Describe the impact that measurable and consistent results can have on accelerating your change.
- Capture, celebrate, and communicate wins.
- Overcome barriers to winning while creating a winning mindset and environment for your change.
Course 6: Achieving Lasting Change
- Define approaches for capitalizing on growing momentum for a change to drive impact
- Reenergize key people who are driving the change to move through setbacks and ongoing resistance
- Capture improvements and results to show how new practices are improving performance
- Identify successful new habits and practices that can make the change sustainable
- Apply strategies for identifying and adjusting key processes and systems required to anchor changes in place
Complete Courses 1-4 to earn Kotter Core Change Certification and Courses 1-6 to earn Kotter Advanced Change Certification.
Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for professionals seeking to make a meaningful impact in their organizations, including:
- C-Suite and Senior Leaders
- Project Managers and Change Leaders
- Human Resources and Organizational Development Specialists
- Team Leaders and Department Heads
- Change coaches
Whether you’re steering a company-wide transformation or managing smaller, department-level changes, this program equips you with the confidence and tools to lead with impact.
Meet your Facilitator
Courses will be led by Dr Cynthia Ee, who has extensive experience leading and managing global change initiatives.
With Our Compliments, for a limited time, receive a copy of Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-To-Imagine Results In Uncertain and Volatile Times, when you sign up for Foundations of Change and Core Change Certification.
Testimonials
"The World Food Programme (WFP) had engaged Dr Cynthia Ee as a change management consultant to support a global transformation initiative under my purview as then Deputy Director of Human Resources Division. WFP is the world largest humanitarian organisation operating in more that 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America. The project required her to engage with stakeholders from six regional bureaux around the world to executive teams and manage communication channels to connect with over five thousand staff, directly affected by the project, in more than 80 countries. (more…)
"Cynthia and I worked together as we were building an HR Function at Flex Ltd., a company at that time that had close to $13bn in revenue without a global HR organization and absent standardized systems, processes or policies. This was a significant undertaking that required a complete transformation in the culture, mindset and commitment of the company to Human Resources as a legitimate strategic business function. (more…)
"Cynthia was the creator as well as the Global Leader of Human Resources Communication at Flextronics. Cynthia first launched an exercise to evaluate the needs to improve/change communication in the different geographies, cultures and organizational levels and units of the Company – the factory, the office, the Division, the Business Unit and the region (EU, Asia/Pacific, Americas). Cynthia also embraced the communication cross-borders, given the worldwide presence of the Company. (more…)
"I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Ee at Flex when I was managing the Asia TA function. She was instrumental in helping the company to redefine our EVP, through exhaustive external research and formulating an employer brand strategy that contributed to the function making over 6,000 experienced hires a year. On top of this, she led the employee engagement and communications agenda, as the HR function transformed and the company’s merger between two of the largest EMS players in the market. A consummate professional, honing her skills through academia, a thought leader in her field and a track record of delivering practical solutions in the workplace."
"I first met Cynthia through the Flex CSER (Corporate Social Environmental Responsibility) global program .It became clear early on that Cynthia was a gifted communicator with an ability to see multiple angles and respective solutions to issues. Her skill and personality brought the team along which was instrumental to getting our global program up and running. The component parts of a cser program each needed their own unique style of communication whether it was employee engagement, or community engagement programs all which feed into senior executives in the organization and she delivered every time. Her help to the HR compliance team was second to none and developing new programs in this space Cynthia helped us build a robust framework for compliance that still continues to add value. (more…)
Transform Your Leadership, Transform Your Organization
Join a global network of change leaders who are shaping the future of their organizations. Start your journey to becoming a catalyst for positive, lasting transformation today!
View our training calendar or contact Chiew Chi at +60 12 712 2873 to learn more or register for the program.