A vital change leadership programme for experienced cultural leaders
Cultural leaders today are navigating profound and constant change. Financial pressure, workforce challenges, shifting expectations and increasing demands on leaders are making it harder to find the time and space to think strategically.
Leading Systemic Change supports experienced leaders to step back, make sense of complexity and work through a live organisational challenge with others facing similar questions.
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I remain grateful for the opportunity of the Leading Systemic Change course; it was one of the most – in fact, the most – significant training and professional community events of my career and led to genuinely breakthrough discoveries about my role and the way I inhabit it.
Sarah Alexander OBE, Chief Executive & Creative Director,
The National Youth Orchestra
The reality of leading change
In a recent workforce survey with executive search firm Green Park, we found that:
66%
of respondents identified leadership burnout or overload as one of their organisation’s biggest leadership challenges.
37%
of leaders identified support in navigating organisational change as a priority for their organisation over the next 12 months.
Drawn from the Clore Leadership + Green Park Workforce Asymmetry Survey, July 2026
The challenge isn’t simply that organisations are changing. It is that leaders are being asked to lead through change while also managing immediate pressures, limited resources and growing expectations.
Leading Systemic Change creates space opportunities to think, reflect, explore and work through what meaningful change could look like
Who’s it for?
Leading Systemic Change is for senior and experienced leaders of large- to mid-scale cultural organisations who are seeking to steer change within their organisations and teams.
It is a space to work on the real challenges you are facing now.
This is leadership development with the organisation in view
Leading Systemic Change isn’t just about developing the individual leader. It is about understanding the relationship between people, culture, structures, systems and the wider environment in which organisations operate.
You will bring a live organisational change challenge and be supported to navigate this, applying the programme’s concepts and learning.
Participants will become:
- More confident and skilled to engage with change as part and parcel of leading their organisations
- More empowered to choose and implement approaches confidently, and with agility
- Part of an inspiring and resourceful peer network with a collective understanding, creative empathy and practical support borne of shared experiences.
Bring a colleague!
47%
of survey respondents said lack of internal capacity would make them more likely to seek external support on leadership or organisational development.
Drawn from the Clore Leadership + Green Park Workforce Asymmetry Survey, July 2026
We particularly encourage organisations to attend in pairs. Working through the programme together can help build shared understanding and create the capacity to continue the work beyond the programme.
Led by experienced change practitioners
Vyla L. Rollins
Strategic Organisational Effectiveness Practitioner and Executive Coach
Katherine Long
Consultant
The programme is open to applicants in the UK and internationally.
Programme Fees
- Full Rate:
- Single Participant £5,000 + VAT | Two from same organisation £7,500 + VAT
- Subsidised Rate (organisations with less than £10m turnover):
- Single Participant £3,750 + VAT | Two from same organisation £5,700 +VAT
Included in your Programme fees:
- The cost of the residential programmes including tuition and all course materials.
- Accommodation, meals and refreshments for the duration of the residential courses. Travel is not included.
- Two coaching sessions with your organisational partner.
- TalentSage Assessment Tool
- Access support for the needs of D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent attendees or those with caring responsibilities.
- Central support from the Clore Leadership team
Access
If you would like to answer the programme questions in an alternative format (E.g. audio or video), you can do so in the applications portal. If you need support email courses@cloreleadership.org leave us a message and we will get back to you.
Supporting your access on the programme
We will discuss any support you might need with you before you start the residential to make sure we can make adjustments or put the additional support you need in place. We have worked with many D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent leaders previously. The support you need is individual to you, but the kinds of things we have put in place before includes;
- Providing a notetaker throughout the residentials
- Support for a Personal Assistant to attend with you
- Captioning of online sessions
- Supporting the costs of BSL interpreters
- Providing written materials in different formats
Support for those with caring responsibilities
To help support those with caring responsibilities we provide Carers Access Support which can support costs of up to £75 per day towards additional childcare or other caring related costs during residentials/workshops and during your residential.
Our venues
Our residential locations have undergone an access audit which we are able to provide should you wish. The training spaces are ground level, with accessible toilets located nearby. Accessible accommodation is available, and we will ask you about your specific accommodation needs prior to the course.
