Join Learning Tree's 'Process and Perspective' chat series for an insightful session on 'Gaining Buy-In for Organizational Change'. This engaging webinar brings together industry experts Hamid Al Ghab, Hitesh Patel, and Marguerite Bryan to explore the critical role of buy-in in driving successful change initiatives. With decades of combined experience in project management, Agile, ITIL, and SAFE, these renowned professionals share actionable strategies and real-world examples to help organizations secure buy-in across all levels.
Whether you're a project manager, change agent, or senior leader, this webinar is designed to equip you with tools, frameworks, and fresh perspectives to transform resistance into enthusiastic support.
What You’ll Learn:
- Understand the importance of buy-in for successful organizational change and why it often determines the success or failure of initiatives.
- Explore common challenges to achieving buy-in, such as resistance to change, lack of engagement, and communication breakdowns.
- Strategies to secure buy-in:
- Engaging stakeholders at all levels, from leadership to frontline employees.
- Crafting tailored messaging that resonates with different audiences.
- Articulating the "what's in it for them" to build alignment and motivation.
- Leverage proven frameworks like Agile, ITIL, and Safe to create momentum, deliver quick wins, and sustain engagement throughout change initiatives.
- Practical uses of financial modeling to communicate the tangible benefits of change to leadership.
- Learn how to balance top-down and bottom-up approaches to foster collective ownership of change efforts.
- Insightful tips on managing change fatigue and keeping transformation efforts energized.
Why Watch?
This webinar emphasizes real-world applications and interactive discussions, offering a perfect mix of expert insights and audience engagement. You'll learn pragmatic strategies for addressing tough questions, gaining stakeholder trust, and creating sustainable change in any organization.
Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and bring actionable change management insights back to your team. Watch to gain a competitive edge in managing and leading change in today’s fast-evolving environment.
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Process in Perspective: A Chat with the Experts FAQs
- Expert Insights: Gain perspectives from experienced leaders and SMEs who specialize in Agile, ITIL, project management, organizational leadership and organizational transformation.
- Actionable Strategies: Learn practical techniques for managing change, securing stakeholder buy-in, and sustaining transformation efforts.
This guide is for anyone eager to grow and enhance their skills in Agile, Project Management, and IT Service Management. Whether you're looking to improve your current processes or adopt innovative approaches, these methodologies can help you achieve greater efficiency and success.
- Agile: Gain the flexibility to adapt to change and deliver value faster.
- Project Management: Master the art of planning and executing projects with precision.
- IT Service Management: Enhance service delivery and align IT operations with business needs.
Take the next step in your professional journey by exploring these transformative ways of working. With the right knowledge and tools, you can drive meaningful impact and continuous growth in your career.
Hamid Aougab
Hamid Aougab is Learning Tree's curriculum dean for all project/program courses, as well as the course author of many program and project management courses. Hamid is a system engineer, technology strategist, and educator with 25+ years of experience in project/program management, agile development, systems engineering, information technology, operation and technical support for multiple government agencies and public/privately owned firms.
Marguerite Bryan
Marguerite brings 20+ years of leadership experience transforming digital opportunities into business and mission outcomes. With a proven track record in private and public sectors, as well as regulated, corporate and startup environments, Marguerite compliments her technical savvy, business acumen and laser-sharp customer focus with expert leverage of Agile, Scaled Agile, MBSE, User-Centered Design, and ITIL practices, reaching across and beyond disciplines to ignite cultures of purpose-driven engagement, innovation and relentless improvement. Partnering directly with senior executives or coaching diverse teams of technical, operational or PMO professionals, Marguerite approaches organizational transformation from a holistic view of the enterprise and its value streams, optimizing for hypothesis-driven experimentation, fast feedback cycles, and the continuous flow of value. With leadership experience in traditional PMO governance and finance functions, Marguerite engages in Waterfall, hybrid and transitional environments with insight and experience, tailoring each engagement to the organizational needs and mission success.
Sandy Kelly
ITIL Master Sandy Kelly is a process-oriented IT professional with proven success in managing and directing a broad range of corporate IT platforms. She is recognized for her expertise in process implementation to institute change, improve service, and reduce costs. Her proven capability to implement programs that drive awareness, decrease exposure, and strengthen an organization’s ability to reduce risk. Her deep knowledge of ITIL has been proven over and over as co-author of our new ITIL courses, as well as with her outstanding success in the classroom. Sandy received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from Georgetown University.
Hitesh Patel
Hitesh Patel has over 20 years of experience in transformational change and essential best practices for organizations. Hitesh has delivered over 70 successful best practice transformations, which have included addressing key challenges surrounding organizational strategy, leadership and people, processes and service relationships. One of his biggest achievements include supporting one of the worlds largest security clients to become strategically positioned in a changing market space and leading initiatives in quantifying the true VOI on a regular annual spend of £275m in support and delivery services. As Learning Tree ITIL Curriculum Dean, Instructor, and Author, Hitesh works with clients across EMEA, Asia, North and South America and has developed and delivered programs on a wide array of service management topics by working with customers to design and tailor solutions that enable attendees to access practical tools and approaches to common issues and problems faced.
Jonathan Gilbert
Jonathan Gilbert is the Managing Director of Leadership Practices at Learning Tree International. He is a globally-recognized leading thinker in the areas of leadership, strategy and its execution, organizational behavior, and contributes regularly to the world’s body of knowledge about adaptive leaders, complexity and its impact on organizations. He has influenced thousands of attendees world-wide in speeches, webinars, workshops and other learning events while working at Korn Ferry, StrategyExecution, ESI International and through his own firms the Oar Collective and the Gilbert Consulting Group. In addition, he is an educator with Duke Corporate Education, and has partnered with Duke in the development of several learning programs over the last five years. Currently, Jonathan manages the Learning Tree/Duke partnership, which is bringing the Adaptive Technical Leader Program to organizations across the globe.