Lean Change Agent Workshop
Take the best ideas from Agile, Lean Startup, and design thinking and turn them into a change approach that actually fits your organization — and the change you’re working on.
Change faster, more humanly
Today’s change managers and leaders need to keep up with a constantly increasing pace of change and disruption. Lean Change Agent is an experiential workshop designed to help you take the best ideas from Agile, Lean Startup, and design thinking and create an approach to change management that’s compatible with your organization — and the specific change you’re working on.
What you’ll walk away with
- Apply Agile and Lean techniques to change management
- Use Agile techniques with your existing change framework
- Reframe resistance to change into response to change
- Modernize your change management practices
- Combine Agile, Lean Startup, change management, and design thinking into your own contextual framework
- Alternatives to ROI and project-management thinking
- Use lightweight planning tools such as Change Canvases
- Hands-on access to IdeaLeap’s AI-powered change tools
Six modules, built around how change really happens
Delivered across six live, instructor-led sessions — each module pairs a core idea with hands-on practice and IdeaLeap’s digital tools.
Navigating Complexity
Change fails when we treat complex challenges like simple or complicated ones. You’ll learn to diagnose the true nature of a change and influence behavior through constraints — not by trying to change people one by one.
- Tell simple, complicated, and complex challenges apart (Cynefin)
- See organizations as complex adaptive systems
- The change equation: shift the friction between current and desired behaviors
- Manage constraints, not people — mapped with the AI-powered Change Friction Map
- De-risk change with small experiments
The Lean Change Ecosystem
Long, linear playbooks break down in complex environments. You’ll learn a feedback-driven way of working that adapts as you learn, and how to plan across horizons.
- Run the Lean Change Cycle: Insights → Options → Experiments
- Plan with Big / Next / Now and stay ready to pivot
- Decode reactions with the Ladder of Inference
- See change across four dimensions: process, technology, organizational, behavior
- Diagnose change culture with HexiChange
Experiments
Big plans rarely survive contact with a complex organization. You’ll make progress through small, deliberate experiments that test assumptions and build momentum.
- Activities, experiments, and culture hacks — when to use each
- Turn constraints into options on a cost/value map
- Design with the Experiment Card: hypothesis, measures, pause / pivot / pursue
- Make the new behavior easier and more attractive
- Keep experiments small, transparent, and time-boxed
Continuous Alignment
Alignment isn’t agreement, and it isn’t a one-time kickoff. You’ll build and re-build alignment as people adopt change at different speeds.
- Alignment vs agreement — and why alignment moves change
- Meet people where they are (Diffusion of Innovations)
- Facilitate strategy with the Strategic Change Canvas (nine building blocks)
- Build a shared “why” with the Change Narrative Canvas
- Measure leading vs lagging indicators: adoption, usage, proficiency
The Five Universals of Change
Across a decade of change work, the same patterns separate change that sticks from change that stalls. Use the five universals to diagnose any approach and focus where it matters.
- Cause & purpose over urgency; co-creation over selling
- Meaningful dialogue over broadcasting; response over resistance; experimentation over execution
- Rate your approach with the AI-powered 5 Universals tool
- Force-rank the universals to focus on your weakest areas
- Turn lenses into intervention and experiment cards
The Minimum Viable Change Process
The final module brings it together into a lightweight operating rhythm you can run in any organization — just enough process to turn ideas into outcomes.
- Build a Minimum Viable Change Process (pull-based / Kanban)
- Run the Lean Change Cycle with short change-insights meetings
- Make change visible with big visible walls & digital boards
- Use the Strategic Change Canvas and Big Next Now to prioritize
- Apply Lean Change humanely in sensitive or “secretive” change
Six live, instructor-led sessions
Sessions run twice weekly over three weeks in two timezone-friendly tracks — North America & APAC and North America & EMEA.
Tuition: $1,500 CAD · certification included
- North America (Vancouver, PT)Tue & Thu · 4:00–7:00 PM
- Australia (Sydney)Wed & Fri · 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
- New Zealand (Auckland)Wed & Fri · 11:00 AM–2:00 PM
- North America (Vancouver, PT)Tue & Thu · 6:00–9:00 AM
- UK (London)Tue & Thu · 2:00–5:00 PM
- EU (Brussels, CET)Tue & Thu · 3:00–6:00 PM
Each session runs three hours. Times shift by about an hour around daylight-saving changes — your exact local times are confirmed at registration.
Ready to modernize how you lead change?
Join the next cohort and build a change practice that fits your organization and the way change really works.
Register — $1,500 CAD