Open workshop

Sponsorship in Transformation: Lead with Impact, Act with Intention

Sponsorship is critical—yet often unclear, underplayed, or misused.

 

This 2-day workshop helps senior leaders tackle the real challenges of sponsorship in transformation. You’ll gain practical tools, strategic clarity, and a personal roadmap to lead visibly, influence decisively, and sustain change momentum—even when politics, resistance, and complexity push back.

The workshop is intended for senior leaders who sponsor or steer transformation—formally or informally.

Target Group & Roles

The workshop is intended for senior leaders who sponsor or steer transformation—formally or informally.

It’s designed for executives and senior managers across:

  • NGOs driving strategic shifts in funding, services, or advocacy
  • Public sector organisations implementing policy, service innovation or digitization
  • Global private companies undergoing digital, operational, or cultural transformation

 

Ideal roles include:

  • Transformation Sponsor
  • Executive Steering Committee Member
  • Country Director / VP / CXO
  • Program Owner or Portfolio Sponsor
  • Functional Leader responsible for enabling large-scale change

 

Whether you’re the official sponsor, a shadow influencer, or the executive face of transformation, this workshop sharpens your sponsorship into strategic, visible action.

Learning Outcomes

You will leave the workshop with:

STRATEGIC INSIGHT

  • A crystal-clear understanding of what effective sponsorship looks like in practice
  • Knowledge of sector-agnostic sponsor success factors—and common traps to avoid
  • Ability to link transformation strategy to concrete sponsor behaviors

 

PRACTICAL TOOLS

  • A personal sponsor roadmap based on your real transformation context
  • Peer-tested approaches to overcome resistance, inertia, and role ambiguity
  • Sponsor communication tools for critical moments—CEO townhalls, board check-ins, site visits, and conflict navigation

 

SYSTEMIC AWARENESS

  • Stakeholder power maps tailored to your transformation challenge
  • Insights into how to sponsor through others, building influence beyond hierarchy
  • A change sponsor mindset that balances vision, presence, and consequence

 

A practice-based leadership lab

 

This is not a passive seminar. It’s a practice-based leadership lab where strategic reflection meets hands-on application.

Sponsor Role Debrief

Lessons from high-stakes transformations across sectors—what great sponsors actually did differently

ChangeBits™ Framework

Applied sponsor modules like “Leader Visibility”, “Outcome Guardrails”, “Momentum Builders”, and “Systemic Tension”

Peer Clinics

Work on your own transformation challenge with live feedback and sponsor sparring

Sponsor Speech Practice

Deliver real-world sponsor communications and get high-impact coaching

Stakeholder Mapping

Navigate power, politics and influence through practical stakeholder matrixes

Executive Reflection & Coaching Circles

Guided sponsor intent work with structured peer input

DAY

1

Anchor the Sponsor Mindset

Sponsorship is a Practice, not a title

Sponsor Role Reality Check : DO’s and Don’t’s

Sponsor impact area

Stakeholder power mapping beyond org charts

Sponsor Dilemmas Lab : Working with Friction

Reflection & Peer Dialogue

DAY

2

Build the Sponsor Operating System

Sponsor stand-ups : Insights & Actions

Communication Lab : Speak like a Sponsor

Sponsoring through Others : How to Mobilise Influence

Your 90 Day Sponsor Action Plan

Peer Coaching & Executive Dialogue

Graduation : Your Sponsor Commitment