Welcome to our short courses designed for individuals eager to enhance their skills and boost their effectiveness. Our courses address key areas identified by businesses as critical skills gaps, ensuring you gain relevant and in-demand expertise.
“I have found the content of the modules totally invaluable, especially the module delivered by Professor Julie Hodges. The delivery was second to none and the content gave me new insights, together with the ability to understand my own approach in conjunction with delivering people-centric change, a core part of my role.”
“Julie Hodges is an excellent teacher and a true expert in her field. She encouraged open discussions creating an engaging learning environment. I would highly recommend her teaching as a truly knowledgeable and inspiring professor.”
Dates: 7 February and 8 February 2025
Location: Durham University Business School Waterside Building, Durham
The sessions will focus on how you can effectively achieve change, drawing on relevant models, diagnostic tools and techniques enabling you to apply a people-centric approach to engage key stakeholders in the change process. With consideration of the practical challenges of business transformations, you will enhance your capabilities to lead and manage change effectively, focusing on key topics such as the impact of change on wellbeing, ensuring an approach to change that is inclusive, and coping with opposition to change.
This module will focus on the importance of understanding the effects of change on individuals and teams and of engaging them throughout the change journey. It will enhance your skills to manage and lead people through planned transformation changes. It will do this by setting out frameworks, perspectives and practical approaches which you will be able to apply in practice. By the end of the workshop you will be able to:
Hear from Professor Julie Hodges as she introduces our short course 'Leading People-Centric Change'.
Professor Julie Hodges, PhD, MA, BA, PHEA, Academic Fellow ICMCI, Senior Fellow FME, CMBE
Julie is a leading expert on change in organisations, particularly the role and impact of people during transformations. She joined the Business School in 2006. Before entering the academic world Julie worked as a business consultant for over 20 years in several profit and non-profit organisations, including PwC. At PwC Julie was responsible for organisational change and management development in a number of companies including Barclays, Shell, BBC, Lloyds, Reuters. Julie has also worked with Vertex where she set up and led a commercial consultancy team. Her first role was with the British Council where she was the Development Consultant for East Asia. Since joining academia and Durham University Business School Julie has taught a number of modules across the full-time, online & executive MBA programmes including: Leading and Managing People; Management Consultancy; and the Boardroom Exercise. She has also delivered programmes on leading and managing change as part of the Business School’s Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme and also for companies such as Nissan, Dell Technologies and Carlsberg Marston.
Julie has held a number of leadership roles within the Business School including Associate Dean for MBA & DBA programmes.
Julie has published in a number of international journals on change in organisations and written several books on organizational change including ‘Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change’ and her latest one ‘People-Centric Organizational Change’
Julie is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Academic Fellow of the ICMCI (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes) and a Senior Fellow of the Foundation for Management Education (FME). She is also a member of the editorial board of the ‘Management Consulting’ journal.
Fee: £1650
Early-bird fee for Durham Alumni: £1500 (registration by Monday 2nd December)
Booking is now open to secure your place.
Contact one of our team if you would like to find out more.
