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Leading Transformation Through Culture

Available Options: Blended
Commencing: 7th October 2025
Duration: 4 full days over 2 weeks
Fees: £2,000 (VAT is non-applicable)

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Leading Transformation Through Culture

Maintaining an organisational culture that is continuously driven to explore creative and innovative solutions can be as difficult as it is to develop one - once a new idea becomes successful, organisations are naturally inclined to repeat the success rather than continuing to innovate. Leading Transformation Through Culture raises a simple but challenging question - How do you create a culture to go offroad and what are the challenges organisations face in unlocking the ‘blackbox’ of culture?

This programme is for leaders who are striving to create a tangible shift in how the organisation behaves and performs. You will gain practical insights and tools to develop and nurture a positive company culture and discover how to optimise the opportunities presented from shaping organisational cultural change and driving a winning organisational mindset. Furthermore, you will learn how to cultivate new, positive ways of working, embrace digitalisation and boost employee resilience and performance.

Developed with the transforming business landscape in mind, this programme is tailored for C-level executives, senior directors and general managers from any industry who have strategic and organisational responsibilities.

Key Takeaways and Benefits

This programme will enable you to define a powerful organisational culture in your business, harnessing transformation from the inside out, through your people.

It will equip you with practical steps and insights to implement cultural change in your own enterprise. You will  explore new ways of working, acquiring the skills and knowledge to nurture and leverage organisational cultural strength.

The course investigates the link between culture and collaboration, wellbeing, re-/upskilling, innovation, ethics and sustainability. It will help you to rethink the present culture in your organisation and reshape employee understanding, perceptions and performance to create a winning organisation.

On the Leading Transformation Through Culture Programme you will;

  • Understand of the concepts and archetypes of organisational culture
  • Evaluate organisational cultural transformation success factors
  • Plot a cultural transformation roadmap for your organisation
  • Align cultural shift to critical success factors
  • Strategically develop a ‘mission critical’ shift in organisational culture
  • Lead with a positive cultural mindset approach
  • Drive organisational competitive advantage

Participant Profile

This programme is for managers and leaders who are striving to stimulate a tangible shift in how the organisation behaves and performs. This course will help you to cultivate new, positive ways of working, embrace digitalization and boost employee resilience and performance.

Developed with the transforming business landscape in mind, this programme is tailored for those with senior level, human resource and general management responsibilities from any industry. Discover how to optimise the opportunities presented from shaping organisational cultural change and driving a winning organisational mindset. Our immersive on campus and online classes provide real world insights from our international experts, allowing you to explore how to extract transform your organisation to compete and thrive in our evolving environment.

This programme is essential if you are striving to embrace new ways of working and wish to gain the knowledge, expertise and tools to do so through the power of your people.

The Programme at a Glance
DAY 1
ONLINE

Welcome and Introduction

Decoding Organisational Culture and The Concept of Organisational Culture

DAY 2
ON CAMPUS
Transforming on Organisational Culture and Case Study
DAY 3
ON CAMPUS
Leading on Organisational Culture and Performing on Organisation Culture
DAY 4
ON CAMPUS
Renewing Organisational Culture and Case Study, Group Discussion, Reflection and Recap
Class Format and Dates

This is a 2 week blended learning programme. One day is expertly delivered online from our live, interactive classroom. Experience three days on campus at The William J. Clinton Leadership Institute at Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast. 

Our Clinton Leadership Institute Learning Management System will support your learning throughout with videos, podcasts and reading materials.

OCTOBER 2025 DATES
TIME
MODULE
DELIVERY MODE
07/10/2025 09:30-16:30 Decoding Organisational Culture and The Concept of Organisational Culture Online
15/10/2025 09:30-16:30 Transforming on Organisational Culture and Case Study On Campus
21/10/2025 09:30-16:30 Leading on Organisational Culture and Performing on Organisational Culture On Campus
22/10/2025 09:30-16:30 Renewing Organisational Culture and Case Study Group Review On Campus

 

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What are past participants saying about this programme?

“Leading Transformation Through Culture Programme was a very thought provoking and insightful course and really got me thinking about all aspects of life and not just work. Ulf and Jean were fantastic and very knowledgeable on the subject. Their ability to link what they were teaching to real life examples and case studies was truly impressive and helped make the process of learning very smooth. Both are very approachable and created a relaxed atmosphere to learn, two world class lecturers! This course is a must for anyone wanting to broaden their knowledge on how important work place culture can be.” Chris Bell - Operations Manager, Bryson Recycling

“This is a highly recommended course delivered by two very inspirational subject experts. The delivery structure allows for key concepts and industry thinking to be explored and is relevant across all sectors. The level of engagement facilitate pier to pier learning which supports the course objects. A must in today’s challenging business environment” Kevin Smyth​ - SHEQ Manager, 3 Interiors

“The Leading Transformation Through Culture Programme provided me with an exceptional opportunity to develop an understanding of the power of organisational culture and the pivotal role leadership plays in establishing a positive culture in an organisation. The pace and variety of delivery and the use of case studies developed a positive active learning environment where theories, models and constructs were examined and challenged by willing learners. Thank-you to QUB for providing us with access to expert facilitators, rich resources and a fabulous learning environment at Riddel Hall.” Ciaran McManus - Assistant Chief Executive, South West College 

Programme Faculty
Programme Director
Dr Ulf Bosch, Professor of Practice

The Leading Transformation Through Culture Programme is delivered by Dr. Ulf Bosch. Ulf is a highly experienced strategist and leadership expert, business consultant, author and keynote speaker and is Professor of Practice at Queen’s Business School. He holds a PhD in Strategy from King’s College London and a MBA from the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. Ulf has more than 20 years of international experience serving as Head of Organisational Change and Talent Management with top-management consultancies. He has personally lead multiple large-scale transformation and leadership programmes for some of the world’s best-known organisations across various industries. Apart from his professional pursuits, Ulf is an award winning distance runner for his native Düsseldorf and motivates participants with his engaging real-world approach.


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