Accelerate the success of any change
while developing resilient, change-ready people
Overview
KickstartChange™ is a hands-on change management workshop that helps your people at all levels make change a reality and support your organization’s strategy. Because when everyone has a role in driving change, teams move faster and emerge resilient in the face of uncertainty.
In just two hours, KickstartChange™ helps participants learn, practice and apply proven tools to change challenges in their own work. This AI-powered experience blends practical skill-building with on-the-fly problem-solving, delivering immediate impact and lasting change agility.
Over 90% of KickstartChange™ participants
reported improved change capabilities in just 2 hours.
Outcomes
This workshop is an engaging, fast-paced and scalable way to spark momentum and accelerate the adoption of change. In the process of working in teams on a specific real-world change challenge, participants walk away with simple, repeatable skills to:
- Align on purpose by articulating a compelling ‘why’ change message
- Communicate with clarity by tailoring their message to highlight stakeholder benefits
- Plan for action by surfacing barriers and proactively addressing resistance
Your people will return to their roles change-ready, enabled to help others embrace new ideas and drive progress.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
KickstartChange™ is designed for anyone navigating change in their work, from front-line employees to middle managers to senior leaders.
For those leading larger-scale change initiatives, we recommend a blended journey of KickstartChange™ and ExperienceChangeⓇ so your leaders can build the skills to lead change at both the individual and organizational level.
KickstartChange™ focuses on individual change by building everyday change skills to help people be ready, willing and able to support a change.
ExperienceChangeⓇ focuses on organizational change by offering hands-on practice with a proven 7-step change process.
The Change Readiness Framework
Successful change only happens when people are Ready, Willing & Able to act.
KickstartChange™ is built on ExperiencePoint’s Change Readiness Framework, a practical approach for turning change strategy into real behavior. It helps people create clarity, build commitment and remove barriers so change can happen by focusing on three essential conditions:
- Ready – People understand what’s changing and why it matters
- Willing – People see the benefits of the change for themselves and others
- Able – People have the skills and conditions to take action and succeed
When any of these are missing, change efforts stall. When all three are in place, change moves forward. KickstartChange™ helps teams identify and close these gaps so change can happen faster and more effectively.
Workshop Breakdown
1. Learn the framework
Get introduced to the practical change management framework – Ready, Willing & Able – to help others embrace change
2. Choose a real change
Define what current situation needs to change and what the desired future state looks like
3. Create clarity and shared purpose
Consider threats & opportunities that come with change and share “why change” in a compelling way
4. Involve key people
Practice empathy by identifying key players and understanding how the change impacts them
5. Identify desired behaviors
Brainstorm vital new behaviors and how you can influence their adoption while minimizing resistance
6. Start a change conversation
Practice using your communication plan with the key people involved to start driving change forward
How KickstartChange™ Supports Everyone Responsible for Change
BUSINESS LEADERS
Turn strategy into action
KickstartChange™ helps teams communicate change more clearly, address resistance more effectively, and move important initiatives forward. It gives people practical tools they can use immediately in support of business priorities.
TALENT LEADERS
Build change capability at scale
KickstartChange™ makes it easy to embed practical change skill-building into leadership development, manager training, and broader transformation efforts. Its short format and flexible delivery help organizations scale learning quickly and effectively.
TRAINERS
Deliver an unforgettable experience
KickstartChange™ is designed to be easy to facilitate while keeping the experience grounded in participants’ real work. The result is a workshop that supports rich discussion, practical application, and efficient delivery.
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Training You Can Trust
Building capability at scale takes more than just content. For over 30 years, ExperiencePoint has helped more than half of the Fortune 100 and leading executive education programs turn learning into action through human-centered, experiential workshops that deliver practical, dependable results.
How Organizations Are Using KickstartChange™
KickstartChange™ is helping a wide range of organizations tackle real change challenges with greater clarity, alignment, and momentum. Here are some common ways KickstartChange™ is used:
AI CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Used within a Fortune 100 tech giant to strengthen change capability, build resilience, and help managers guide their teams through AI adoption.
CHANGE READINESS
Enabled a fast-growing team of 50 marketers to tackle real change challenges together, while getting aligned, reducing silos and change fatigue and building a shared path forward.
CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
Deployed during a major systems implementation to prepare senior leaders to lead large-scale change, reduce resistance, and ensure successful adoption.
ORGANIZATIONAL AGILITY
Applied by 22 aerospace sales leaders to adapt to shifting customer needs, strengthen client partnerships and respond more effectively to constant change.
ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMS
Used within an action learning journey to help cross-functional teams in Hi-Po leadership cohorts apply change skills to real business challenges.
LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
Integrated into an EMBA health leadership program to help senior healthcare leaders consider stakeholder impacts as they lead change in a rapidly evolving health environment.
VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON TEAM EVENTS
Delivered in a virtual team event to build organizational agility and resilience while strengthening collaboration and engagement during a period of restructuring.
HACKATHONS
Used alongside innovation programs like ExperienceInnovation™ | Learn to turn ideas into actionable change plans, with a focus on stakeholder alignment.
EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS
Additional Resources
How Sourcewell United Its Growing Marketing Team Around Change
Learn how a self-sustaining government organization used KickstartChange™ to overcome the barriers, challenges and resistance that comes from rapid organization growth.
Additional Resources
How 3 Organizations Are Making Change Leadership Everybody’s Job
Learn how top organizations are using change leadership training to foster agility, reduce resistance and lead through change and uncertainty together.
FAQs About KickstartChange™
Is a 2-hour change management workshop really effective?
Yes, a 2-hour change management workshop can be effective—when it’s designed right. KickstartChange™ uses a focused, short-seated format that combines experiential learning with practical, human-centered tools. By focusing on a real change challenge, participants can see the immediate impact of their work. This highly efficient approach has been proven to build change readiness quickly and effectively across all levels of an organization. Over 90% of KickstartChange™ participants reported improved change capabilities—proving that even a short-seat workshop, when also practical, can deliver real impact fast. That’s why we call it our “workout workshop.”
Why is change management important for everyone in an organization?
Change management isn’t just for leaders—it’s essential for everyone. According to McKinsey research, while only 2% of employees are typically involved in organizational change, organizations that “involve 21 to 30 percent of employees in key transformation roles” achieve the highest total shareholder returns (TSR). This proves that broader capability and participation in change drive better outcomes. By democratizing change capability and empowering individuals at all levels, organizations can build a resilient, change-ready culture that accelerates results and sustains success.
What is the difference between ExperienceChange® and KickstartChange™?
ExperienceChange® and KickstartChange™ are complementary change management experiences designed to work in tandem. They share common foundations but serve different purposes, audiences and time frames. ExperienceChangeⓇ is a 4–8 hour immersive simulation that helps leaders and teams responsible for driving change build a deep, end-to-end understanding of how to lead complex, organization-wide change. Meanwhile, KickstartChange™ is a 2-hour practical workshop that helps people at all levels build the skills to navigate change in their day-to-day work, with immediate application to real challenges. They are powerful experiences on their own, but can be paired powerfully together in a longer learning journey.
What is change leadership training?
Change leadership training is a type of change management training that equips people with the skills and tools they need to lead through uncertainty, reduce resistance and drive meaningful progress. As today’s workforce faces more change than ever—driven by AI, economic shifts, organizational transformation, and more—this training benefits employees at all levels, not just formal leaders. That’s why we’re seeing more and more organizations turning to change leadership training to foster a resilient, change-ready culture.
How does KickstartChange™ help everyday individual contributors?
Change is not a spectator sport. KickstartChange™ equips individual contributors with the skills and mindset they need to actively participate in change—regardless of prior experience. With practical tools and a human-centered approach, it helps people build agency and see change as an opportunity rather than a disruption.
Participants learn to:
- Build resilience: Collaborate more effectively by developing a shared language, tools, and understanding for navigating change together.
- Practice empathy and perspective-taking: Explore the “why” behind the change and see the value of change through multiple lenses—what it means for them, their team, and the wider organization.
- Apply skills in real-world scenarios: Gain hands-on experience in a safe environment and walk away with a repeatable framework.
This approach is especially valuable in roles like marketing or cross-functional teams, where change is often driven by other departments. KickstartChange™ helps contributors feel more connected, capable and aligned with the transformation.
How does KickstartChange™ handle AI, privacy, and data security?
KickstartChange™ offers two AI-supported options. By default, participants can use Copy for AI, which lets them upload their draft work to an AI tool their organization already approves. Or leaders can choose to enable the Refine option, an in-platform AI feature that helps participants directly improve their outputs in real time. Refine is designed to improve clarity, grammar, and flow without adding new facts. Because organizations vary in their AI policies, the in-platform AI feature is optional and can be disabled. Additional information on AI safeguards, controls, and service providers is available for clients who need it.
What is organizational agility?
Organizational agility is a company’s capacity to respond quickly and effectively to change, whether it’s caused by new strategies, technologies, policies, or something else entirely. It’s not just about adopting new processes—it’s about creating a culture where people at every level are equipped and empowered to lead change when they come face-to-face with it.
At ExperiencePoint, we’ve seen that organizational agility takes root when people at every level feel trusted, empowered and responsible for leading change—not just coping with it. As we explore in an ATD blog, real agility starts when change isn’t just managed from the top but led by everyone.