Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
As a CPA, finance professional, or someone wanting to make a difference, you work in a continuously shifting business environment. In this certificate program, you will learn how to lead, plan, and create sustainable operational and strategic change within your organization. How you proact, react and prepare for change with your teams and colleagues is critical to company culture and success. Change management and enablement is multifaceted and needs to be done strategically.
Our Change Leadership program will equip you with the tools to gain support for new processes and plans as well as address challenges that may impede a successful change management initiative. Using interactive case studies and group activities, participants will learn how to evaluate, identify, and advance change in their organization. This program is a unique opportunity for leaders and managers to develop action plans that address change management in their organization.
- Learn how to evaluate, identify, and advance change in your organization from interactive case studies and group activities.
- Learn skills and tools that will help youto assess both operational and global socio-economic challenges and how they impact your organization.
- Build and develop sustainable, strategic change within your team and organization.
- Develop an action plan to address a specific change you want to make in your organization.
Before registering for this session, please note, it is going to be an in-person session and will be held at the CPA Ontario Office on 69 Bloor St. E in Toronto. You MUST attend in person to participate, there will not be an option to join this session virtually.
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Schedule
- October 14, 2026, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- October 15, 2026, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- October 16, 2026, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Implement frameworks to align people and processes with change strategies.
- Assess your organization's specific needs and readiness for change.
- Develop a proactive vision for change.
- Deploy strategies to prepare your organization for change.
- Hone your skills and abilities to become an effective change agent.
- Develop and execute action plans to facilitate meaningful change in your organization.
- Strategize ways that help you adapt to the challenges of constant change.
Earn a Digital Badge
Our new collection of digital badges can be earned through the completion of any of our certificate programs offered in our professional development catalogue. Collect these digital badges to add to your website, social profiles, email signature and more. These badges are an easy way to visually communicate your skills and accomplishments to your peers and network. Digital badges will be awarded based on course completion requirements.
Who Will Benefit
Leaders and managers in finance or operations departments who are responsible for leading change initiatives within their organization such as:
- Vice President / Director of Operations
- Vice President / Director Finance
- Director of Accounting
- Finance Director
- Financial Controller
- Finance Manager
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Attendance Requirements
To earn your CPD hours and Digital Badge, you must attend 80% of live sessions. We understand that sometimes unplanned absences happen. Please reach out to our Operations Team if you're unable to attend a session as scheduled. Learners who complete the program are eligible to write an optional exam.
How to Access the Course
This is an in-person certificate program held at the CPA Ontario Office, 69 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON, M4W 1B3. You must attend in person to participate, there will not be an option to join this session virtually.
If available, course materials may be available two days before your course starts, please check Blackboard.
You can find information on registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies here.
Speaker(s)
Dr. Gene Deszca is a Professor Emeritus in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University where he played major leadership roles in program development in both the MBA and international business areas. He has published and/or presented more than 100 papers, cases, monographs and technical papers, as well as six books (with coauthors), the most recent being Organizational Change: An Action Oriented Toolkit, (5th ed.). He has served on both public and private sector boards, including six years on the board of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada. He continues to deliver workshops, consult, write, and teach internationally in graduate business programs. His current research focus is on organizational change and the evolution of organizations under the stress due to disruption.