Advanced Change Strategy
Part 2
(DC-ACS)
From an empowered change maker to an influential strategist of complex change.
This is the latest thinking, building upon level 1 to go deeper into complexity, people, and the effect AI, WFH, and macro-global events are having on change.
6 Afternoons • Online • Experiential • Business-First • Complexity-Aware • AI-Integrated
13th, 14th, 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th October 2025
1pm to 5.45pm UK time online.
Course flow
The Flow
Six immersive half-days (1pm–5:45pm UK) blending:
Real-world casework — including a live, politically charged organisational scenario.
Advanced tools — complexity frameworks, systemic mapping, and leadership resilience practices.
Experiential methods — high-engagement, safe-to-challenge groupwork, AI-assisted co-design, and scenario stress-testing.
Day Themes:
Day 1:
Safety in the context we are entering: Operating without a mandate, macro stress mapping, and alliance building.
Day 2:
Problems to Outcomes: Business Context, Business-First framing, constraints–attractors–outcomes mapping, defining the scope for prioritisation.
Day 3:
Leadership Context – Leadership Resilience Matrix, macro-stress regression, scenario simulation.
Day 4:
Start With Now – Holon-aware mapping, coherent space definition.
Day 5:
Scenarios & Experiments – lifecycle and complexity-oriented, AI-augmented experiment portfolio design.
Day 6:
Your Coherent Strategy – Integrated 6-month influence strategy, peer review, and closing commitments.
What's new?
This is not a repeat of the course you’ve taken before.
It’s the next level of the Enterprise Change Pattern for a new era, one where:
Agile coaching is no longer a recognised force for change in most organisations.
Leaders have reverted to lower-complexity, KPI-driven, plan-led change.
Change agents often operate without a formal mandate.
The field is distorted by macro pressures — wars, Brexit, inflation, AI disruption, nationalism, and fractured supply chains.
The Enterprise Change Pattern 2025 integrates cutting-edge models and methods you have not seen in our previous programmes. We’ve upgraded and evolved every stage; building in new tools from complexity science, human systems design, and AI-augmented change work, so you can influence outcomes even when the system doesn’t recognise the need for you.
What's in the course?
Business-First Anchor – Tie all change work directly to board-level metrics like NDR, CAC Payback, and Time to Value. You can add your own.
Constraints–Attractors–Outcomes Mapping – Much deeper look at outcomes using complexity mapping, attractor theory, and business metrics to reveal high-leverage acting space.
Holon-Aware Mapping – Incorporating system thinking to avoid sub-optimising any level of the system.
Leadership Resilience Matrix – Combining Action Logics, Internal Family Systems, and the Map of Consciousness to hold stance under macro-level stress.
Experiment Portfolio Design – Map and balance your safe-to-fail experiments across the lifecycle of methods and practices.
AI-Infused Change Navigation – Practical integration of AI collaboration, automation, orchestration, and prompt equity guardrails into your facilitation and design work.
ECP Early Sensing – narrative-based exploration of the system using systems coaching and constellations to detect areas of opportunity early.
Who is this for?
Experienced change leaders, organisational designers, and enterprise coaches.
Alumni of our previous programmes who want the next layer of capability.
Practitioners ready to operate invisibly when needed, and visibly when it counts.
Leaders who must deliver measurable business improvement in complex, shifting systems without formal change structures.
Why attend?
Wanting to go much deeper into how to create Change? Wanting to dive into complexity, people, and power?
Want to use AI, and you have no mandate?
Yes? Then join the certified program:
DC-ACS – (Deeper Change Academy) Part 2: Advanced Change Strategy
This is an interactive, slide-free program where you will build a deep change strategy, explore current challenges and solve them together using each other, AI, and advanced facilitation. Build a toolkit of practical skills and techniques.
Meet your course leader
Simon Powers
CEO and Founder of The Deeper Change Academy and AWA Global.
Following a career in large-scale software architecture working for Goldman Sachs, NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, Oxfam, Local Government, and various retail corporations, Simon naturally moved into running large-scale agile change programs.
He started the first global community of practice, Adventures with Agile, in 2014, defined one of the best-known descriptions of agility with The Agile Onion, and defined the Agile Mindset.
He pioneered the world's first coaching approach to whole organisational change with the Enterprise Change Pattern and wrote the book on Change.
He was voted the person who did the most to promote agility globally, the best public conference speaker, and won the award for the best CEO by CEO Monthly magazine.
In 2018 - 2020, he worked with the team at ICAgile to define the competencies for the highest certification possible in organisational change, the ICE-EC program. In 2020, he designed and released the 6-month cohort program that you can take after completing this program.
He has taught thousands of agile coaches, enterprise coaches, managers, leaders, and changemakers worldwide.
He is an international coach, mentor, therapist, facilitator, and trainer with a passion for systems and people's development. He is also a father, a kung fu practitioner, and a keen dirt bike rider.
In-house training available
Want to train your whole team or key people in the organisation? We can deliver this powerful Change course directly at your premises, customised for your team's unique context and challenges.
By training together, your organisation builds a shared language and toolkit for change, strengthening collaboration and increasing the likelihood of successful transformation. The in-house format also allows us to incorporate your specific organisational examples and challenges into the learning experience.
Contact us to discuss how we can tailor this program for your organisation's needs, preferred duration, and group size.
Course Details:
Online
Duration: 6 afternoons of immersive, hands-on, experiential learning over Zoom.
Early Bird Fee: £1,299+ VAT
Standard Fee: £1,599 + VAT
Next Steps:
Purchase your tickets to secure your place for the next program starting in October 2025 (online).
FAQ
The programme is taught in English.
The registration fee covers all modules and certifications. There are no additional costs. We do not cover any subscription to AI or other tools. However, you do not need a paid version of the tools to participate.
Reviews
This course is run in partnership with AWA Global. These are reviews for the week-long part 1 in-person program based in London.
High praise for this course
“I came to this course expecting to learn more about lean and agile transformations. This course is beyond that. It is a launch pad to change the way you see the world and design enterprise of tomorrow ”
Paul Stonehouse
Lean Agile Coach
"This bootcamp should be on all senior leaders L&D list. It’s so much more than technology. It’s about preparing for the future.”
Kate RandChief People Officer
"If you think about solving complex problems in your organization and have no idea where to start and how to approach it, this training is for you! I had a lot of AHA moments during the course and it really helped understand much better the role of Enterprise Agile Coach."
Kasia MariakAgile Transformation Lead
"I cannot say enough about the transformational experience that happens in this class. There is no way to leave this class without having a personal transformation. I am leaving with a whole new perspective. So many dots were connected through the conversations we had this week. I have a LOT more learning to do, but I have found a family in my fellow classmates. Thank you for a fantastic week!"
Sarah Kronos Senior Program Manager
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