
Kotter Training Courses & Certifications
Master the Art & Science of Change
The Kotter Change Certification Program empowers leaders, managers, and teams with practical tools and proven methodologies to navigate complex transformations successfully.
The training programs build on decades of research by Dr John Kotter and the Kotter team, and real-world application—ensuring participants can effectively lead and manage change, and create a culture that embraces it.
Earn Core & Advanced Kotter Change Certifications
Select the learning path that aligns with your change leadership goals to earn course completion and certification badges.
Course Overview
- Foundations of Change
- Engaging Stakeholders to Spark a Movement
- Selling Your Case for Change
- Essential Change Toolkit
- Accelerating Results
- Achieving Lasting Change
Course 1: Foundations of Change
- Articulate the Science of Change and how this impacts change efforts within your organization
- Explain Kotter’s 8 Accelerators and 4 Change Leadership Principles
- Apply core principles of effective change to your own change initiative(s) and identify ways to enhance your success
- Craft a concrete Action Plan for advancing your individual change initiative(s)
Course 2: Engaging Stakeholders to Spark a Movement
- Apply core principles of effective change to your own change initiative(s) and identify ways to enhance your success
- Recognize behaviors that occur when people are on board, truly urgent, and actively supporting a change
- More effectively engage others in change by addressing their diverse needs, with an emphasis on building an increased sense of urgency
- Articulate why a Guiding Coalition is uniquely positioned as an essential driver for successful change
- Recruit and engage a diverse set of people who can have the greatest impact on guiding the successful realization of the change
- Craft a concrete Action Plan for advancing your individual change initiative(s)
Course 3: Selling Your Case for Change
- Apply core principles of effective change to your own change initiative(s) and identify ways to enhance your success
- Create a compelling and inspiring vision for how things will be different once the change is implemented
- Provide clarity for the actions and efforts needed to spark early contributions to executing the change
- Apply a simple model and practical techniques for buy-in for your change
- Expand awareness of the degree of buy-in you have achieved and how to overcome buy-in gaps
- Assume a greater leadership role in the implementation of change
- Shape a well-thought-out Action Plan to get buy-in
Course 4: Essential Change Toolkit
- Utilize a framework that can help you enable action from more people
- Identify the most likely sources of change barriers for your projects and initiatives
- Apply various tools and techniques that can help overcome barriers to change
- Develop effective stakeholder engagement plans
- Create a communication plan that supports the stakeholder engagement
- Articulate the structural and systemic barriers to change and how to start to overcome them
Course 5: Accelerating Results
- Explain how wins motivate teams and create momentum in the context of change.
- Lead, engineer, and encourage wins.
- Describe the impact that measurable and consistent results can have on accelerating your change.
- Capture, celebrate, and communicate wins.
- Overcome barriers to winning while creating a winning mindset and environment for your change.
Course 6: Achieving Lasting Change
- Define approaches for capitalizing on growing momentum for a change to drive impact
- Reenergize key people who are driving the change to move through setbacks and ongoing resistance
- Capture improvements and results to show how new practices are improving performance
- Identify successful new habits and practices that can make the change sustainable
- Apply strategies for identifying and adjusting key processes and systems required to anchor changes in place
Complete Courses 1-4 to earn Kotter Core Change Certification and Courses 1-6 to earn Kotter Advanced Change Certification.

Who Should Attend?
This program is designed for professionals seeking to make a meaningful impact in their organizations, including:
- C-Suite and Senior Leaders
- Project Managers and Change Leaders
- Human Resources and Organizational Development Specialists
- Team Leaders and Department Heads
- Change coaches
Whether you’re steering a company-wide transformation or managing smaller, department-level changes, this program equips you with the confidence and tools to lead with impact.
What to expect from our Kotter workshop?

Comprehensive pre-work, workbook and materials

Diagnostic tools and assessments

Interactive, hands-on exercises

Simulation and role-plays

In-depth discussion on case studies

Learning and collaborating (plus having fun!) with other change leaders
Join our latest Kotter course: Thriving Through Uncertainty (HRD Corp Claimable)
In this course, you will evaluate your own Survive and Thrive levels, learn to identify these responses within your organization, and practice strategies for reframing challenges as opportunities amid rising uncertainty. Through an immersive case study, you’ll apply concrete techniques and “starter language” to pivotal leadership moments to help reduce Survive reactions and spark Thrive in others. You’ll also develop tactics to minimize Survive-triggering noise for both yourself and your team.
In addition, you will discover and articulate the Science of Change, apply Kotter’s 8 Accelerators and 4 Change Leadership Principles that underpin successful transformation.
Upon successful completion of the course and assessment, receive TWO Kotter badges and TWO certificates for Thriving Through Uncertainty and Foundations of Change.
This 2-day workshop will cover Foundations of Change and Thriving Through Uncertainty, plus an Action Planning module to internalise key learnings. Optional Experiential Learning exercise (outdoors) to experience Survive + Thrive for self, team and organisation in Georgetown, Penang.
Meet your Facilitator

The courses will be led by Dr Cynthia Ee, a Certified Trainer with Kotter Training, who brings extensive experience in leading and managing global change initiatives. Her expertise and insights provide participants with practical tools and strategies to drive meaningful transformation within their organizations.

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Join a global network of change leaders who are shaping the future of their organizations. Start your journey to becoming a catalyst for positive, lasting transformation today!
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