LEADING CHANGE: How to Conduct System-Wide, High-Engagement Performance-Improvement Initiatives in Your Organization

Change is the only constant

This Masterclass is a distillation of what Dr. John J. Scherer and his international colleagues have learned about ‘leading change’, designed for busy-but-committed people in leadership positions who are ready to learn how to facilitate transformation wherever it is needed, enhancing their value to their organization – and to their careers.

‘Management’ means helping people do what they know needs to be done – only better, cheaper, faster every day. VERY important capability – and perhaps one reason you have been promoted to where you are today.

‘Leadership’, on the other hand, means facilitating change – helping people discover new ways of doing things and galvanizing committed action in new directions – perhaps a capability even more important to your future.

If you are currently exercising leadership at any level – from a team of frontline people to a boardroom of executives – you and your career could benefit considerably from learning as much as you can about how to create real change that engages and transforms individuals, teams and larger systems.

If you are responsible for a change initiative in your organization, spend twelve afternoons with Dr. John J. Scherer and his colleagues. They will show you ways how to plan and how to manage change initiatives that succeed.

Learning Objectives

The Leading Change Masterclass will help you:

• Diagnose exactly what kind of change is needed in your situation
• Engage multiple stakeholders in support of the initiative
• Empower ‘Breakthrough Thinking’ that results in fresh solutions
• Galvanize committed action and follow-through

Schedule & Sessions (Winter/Spring 2027)

• Session 1 (Feb 2, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Stepping Into ‘Real Change’: Naming My Initiative
• Session 2 (Feb 9, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): What Needs to Change? From What – To What?
• Session 3 (Feb 16, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Stakeholder-Engagement: Who (Else) Cares?
• Session 4 (Feb 23, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Guest Faculty: Fred Miller & Judith Katz | Change or Die: Inclusion as the HOW®, Agency, and the Future of Organizational Performance
• Session 5 (Mar 2, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Resistance? My/Our New Best Friend!
• Session 6 (Mar 9, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Working Our Change Cases – Together
• Session 7 (Mar 16, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Guest Faculty: David Scherer | Differences That Make a Difference: Inter-Cultural Awareness & Development
• Session 8 (Mar 23, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CET): The OE Team: The Secret ‘Weapon’ in Winning Over Hearts & Minds
• Session 9 (Mar 30, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): ‘Diagnosis’: Real-World Action Research Methods
• Session 10 (Apr 6, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Guest Faculty: Barry Johnson | The Transforming Power of ‘AND’: Polarity Thinking & ‘Mapping’ Change
• Session 11 (Apr 13, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): Working Our Change Cases – Together
• Session 12 (Apr 20, 2027 | 6:00–8:00 PM CEST): ‘Graduation’ & Next Steps

Tuition & Deadlines

• Early Bird: $2,990 (Available until November 15th, 2026)
• Regular Rate: $3,490 (Available starting November 16th, 2026)
• Registration Deadline: January 18th, 2027

Your Guide for This Journey

Dr. John J. Scherer

SLC Founder & President | LDI & EDI Creator | LAP & ALP Core Educator

Internationally-respected consultant, speaker, teacher, author, and change-facilitator with organizations and their leadership, including Boeing, GTE, The Government of Canada, Netia, DHL, Play, and many others. Men and women in leadership from 55 countries have graduated from his Executive / Leadership Development Intensives (EDI/LDI) and, since 2018, hundreds of Polish C-level executives have participated in Cezary Wojcik’s ‘Leadership Academy for Poland’ with John as a Core Educator.

Honored by Executive Excellence Magazine as one of ‘America’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in Personal/Leadership Development’, and recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Organization Development Network, since 2008 he has been offering his knowledge and wisdom from bases in Warsaw and Seattle.