Lean Change Management

The Lean Change Agent Foundations course is a 16-hour program designed to help change practitioners apply agile, lean startup, and design thinking practices to change management. This course offers a modern approach to change, focusing on adaptability and collaboration.

Participants will learn how to co-create change strategies, use feedback-driven approaches, and apply practical tools to real-world scenarios. The course emphasizes continuous alignment and experimentation, enabling change agents to navigate complex environments effectively.

Whether you’re new to change management or looking to enhance your existing skills, this course provides the foundational knowledge and practical techniques to drive meaningful change in your organization.

Looking for a way to transform your change initiatives? Curious about how you can integrate agile, lean startup and design thinking practices into your change management practices? Then our 2-day foundational course is the course for you!

Learning Objectives

Combining the best ideas from agile, lean startup and design thinking, we help you create an approach to change management tailored to your organization and specific change initiatives. During this 16 hour experience we guide you from buzzwords to a personalized approach.

Learning Outcomes

• Can we integrate agile and change management? And how?

• Are agile practices suitable for complex change programs? And how do we integrate them?

• How can we increase confidence while navigating change?

• How can we anticipate aversion to change? Can we change the way we think about changing?

Who it’s for

• Change agents looking for inspiration and hands-on approach that works

• Agile coaches seeking innovative organizational change practices

• Change management professionals who are wanting to incorporate lean, agile and design thinking practices into their toolkits

Why attend?

• Broaden your global network with passionate change agents

• Use our community to the max, by getting access to extra goodies and perks

• Gather experience with hands-on solutions to real-world problems, all in a safe environment

What to expect

• No to boring online meetings and sharing slides over Zoom! Yes to an interactive experience!

• No to silent training classes! Yes to participating in hands-on workshops!

Course Details and Topics

Tools & Practices we’ll explore

• creating change canvases

• designing change experiments

• using the LCM Engine

• exploring coping stances

• the agile manifesto

• …

Course Modules:

• What is Lean Change Management: Get familiar with the fundamentals of the LCM Engine

• Lean Change Ecosystem: Forget toolkits that only work in theory. The Ecosystem shows how ideas, mental models, and simple practices interconnect to support real-world, ongoing change—not just structured rollouts.

• Lean Change Engine: feedback-driven, people-centered, and responsive.

• 5 Universals of Change: Change isn’t one-size-fits-all—but there are patterns that always show up. This lesson introduces five core dynamics of change that you can recognize and work with across any organization, framework, or initiative.

• The Modern Change Agent: The best change leaders today are more than project coordinators—they’re sensemakers, facilitators, and relationship-builders. This lesson helps you grow beyond the “deliverables” mindset and become a more adaptive, cross-functional leader of change.

• MVCP – Minimum Viable Change Framework: Traditional frameworks can be heavy and rigid—this one’s not. You’ll learn how to build just enough structure to move forward with confidence, while keeping change lightweight, focused, and adaptable.

• Continual Alignment: Instead of pushing for buy-in upfront, this lesson shows you how to maintain real alignment throughout the change. Learn how Change Canvases act as a shared visual guide to keep teams focused, clear, and moving together.

• Experimenting Through Change: Change is rarely linear, and this lesson gives you a method for handling uncertainty through thoughtful experimentation. You’ll learn how to frame change initiatives as hypotheses, test them safely, and adapt based on evidence.

2-day agenda

Day 1:

• What is lean change management?

• Lean Change Ecosystem

• Lean Change Engine

• 5 Universals of Change

• The Modern Change Agent

Day 2:

• MCVP

• Creating change canvases

• Crafting change experiments with measurements and diagnostics

• Understanding response to change

• Continual Alignment

• Experimenting Through Change

What you get:

• A digital copy of Lean Change Management

• Member access to leanchange.org with micro-courses and tools

• Digital Explorer Badge

• Connections with the global community of Leanchange.org