Explore ways to create a comprehensive change strategy that engages all levels of an organization. Focuses on the multi-dimensional approaches required to inspire and execute positive change, including managing power and influence; facilitating engagement and communication strategies; and building sustainable change-leadership capacity.
Author: Willem
CHMN675: Organizational Change: Advanced Models, Methodologies and Measurement
Explores tools for facilitating planned changes and personal transitions. Viewing organizations and communities as systems, the course examines the key levers for change and how to integrate these into the change planning process. Using this systems view as a foundational platform, several contemporary models of change will be presented including appreciative inquiry, whole systems change and project management. Students will apply knowledge using case studies, examining why change efforts fail and, more importantly, what roles leaders play in ensuring the successful implementation of change initiatives.
DTRN590: Digital Transformation: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Governance
Designed to explore the ethical and governance challenges arising from the rapid integration of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in various sectors of society, this course investigates the ethical considerations, legal frameworks, and governance strategies essential for navigating the complex landscape of digital transformation. Students will gain a deep understanding of the ethical implications of emerging technologies, the importance of responsible data management, and the strategies to ensure ethical decision-making in the digital age. Special emphasis will be placed on the unique ethical and governance issues related to artificial intelligence, including bias, transparency, accountability, and the societal impact of AI systems.
DTRN585: Digital Innovation and Disruption
In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, businesses and societies are constantly reshaped by digital innovation and disruption. This course offers a deep dive into the dynamic world of emerging technologies, disruptive business models, and the profound impact they have on industries and everyday life. Students will explore cutting-edge technologies shaping the future. Through real-world case studies, interactive discussions, and expert insights, students will gain valuable insights into successful digital transformations and learn from the challenges faced by those who failed to adapt.
DTRN575: Leading Digital Transformation
Introduces students to foundational theories, processes, practices and strategies of social innovation as well as corporate intrapreneurship. Through deep introspection, students will gain knowledge of change strategies that include deploying soft and hard power to advance innovative opportunities, while exploring how to influence without formal authority. Learners will get exposed to the creative strategies and activities of social and institutional entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs), activists, organizations, and social movements. Students will examine individuals and groups who have catalyzed important positive social change through different organizational platforms –in the market, in government, within the nonprofit sector, and increasingly in the space between these three sectors. Throughout the course students will examine social innovation through case studies, best practice analyses, and relevant reading.
CSIN550: Foundation of Corporate Social Innovation
Introduces students to foundational theories, processes, practices and strategies of social innovation as well as corporate intrapreneurship. Through deep introspection, students will gain knowledge of change strategies that include deploying soft and hard power to advance innovative opportunities, while exploring how to influence without formal authority. Learners will get exposed to the creative strategies and activities of social and institutional entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs), activists, organizations, and social movements. Students will examine individuals and groups who have catalyzed important positive social change through different organizational platforms –in the market, in government, within the nonprofit sector, and increasingly in the space between these three sectors. Throughout the course students will examine social innovation through case studies, best practice analyses, and relevant reading.
CSIN575: Measuring and Scaling Social Impact
Focuses on measuring and reporting on social impact and identifying outcomes in relation to the objectives of different stakeholders. Also examines the question of how social innovations can effectively scale their impact to reach individuals and communities that might benefit from their innovations.
ENVP670: Sustainable Food Systems
Explores how urban and regional food systems can be transformed through planning, policy, and participatory engagement. Learners examine the components of sustainable food systems, as shaped by multiple governance and knowledge traditions (Indigenous, non-Western, agroecological, diasporic, relational), and apply planning tools to real-world challenges such as land access, food security and sovereignty, and climate resilience. Through case studies and scenario design, students critically evaluate governance frameworks and design collaborative strategies to advance equity, decolonization, and regenerative futures.
EXCH508: Foundations of Executive Coaching
Coaching is grounded in the language of creation, commitment and possibility along with the need to understand the forces that aid and impede accomplishment. Students build on the work offered at the residency and further develop their understanding of and appreciation of both the power of language and several key domains of personal and professional development. Students further develop their executive coaching skills and form personal and professional foundations for their executive coaching practice.
EXCH509: Executive Coaching in Organizations
Investigates organizations from a systems perspective and examines the role of executive coaching to support learning. Participants will view the organization from differing perspectives to develop and understand the organization’s corporate context. This understanding will assist the discovery of underlying behaviours to support achievement and highlight processes and systems to manage progress and accountability in both themselves and others.