For competitive, agile and future-oriented organizations change management has become the center of modern leadership. However, it is not sufficient to simply have basic change management skills and tools in place. To make change management a core organizational capability and embrace change as a corporate value organizational members live by, leadership development and change management must mesh.

Ask five executives, which are the most crucial success factors in leading change and you will most probably receive five different answers. The reason being individual experiences, perspectives and priorities are no less different than the sheer complexity of change programs involving numerous players and organizational levels. While we believe John P. Kotter’s seminal work ‘Leading Change’ and his 8-Step-Model to transforming organizations to still be valid today, we also think that there is still a lot to learn in order to create best practices in change leadership…..

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