Breakthrough Coaching is the executive coaching practice founded by Dan Sakaki, a certified executive coach and seasoned facilitator with over 25 years of experience developing leadership capacity across the non-profit and business sectors. It guides individuals, leaders and groups toward meaningful, measurable growth.
Seventy percent of organizational change initiatives fail to achieve their intended outcomes. Not because the strategy was wrong, but because the human side of change was mismanaged. This one-day workshop equips leaders and managers with the psychology, models and practical tools to lead change with confidence, build organizational agility and turn resistance into engagement.
By the end of the day participants can explain the human dynamics that drive or derail change, apply frameworks and habits that help a team adapt faster, and use practical tools the moment they return to the organization.
What we cover
Morning: The psychology and science of change Why change fails. The Change Curve (Kubler-Ross) for naming where people are emotionally. The ADKAR model (Prosci) for leading individuals through change. Kotter's 8-Step Model for leading change at the organizational level. The five questions every employee needs answered. Activity: Change Announcement Role Play in pairs.
Afternoon: Agility, resilience and leading others forward Organizational agility as Sensing, Adapting and Executing. Psychological safety as the number one predictor of team agility. The six behaviours of agile leaders. Managing resistance: four resistor profiles (the Skeptic, the Protector, the Overloaded, the Self-Interested) and what works for each. Building your personal 90-day change roadmap. Activity: Change Leadership Assessment, mapping a real initiative against Kotter, the Change Curve and ADKAR.
Key takeaways
70% of change fails, most often because of human factors, not technical ones
People do not resist change. They resist loss. Name what is being lost, with dignity.
ADKAR: a barrier at any stage stops the change. Know where each person is stuck.
Create urgency before you communicate vision
Answer the five questions every employee needs answered before anything else
Agility is Sensing plus Adapting plus Executing. All three must be present.
Psychological safety is the single greatest driver of team agility
Agile leadership is learned behaviour: coach, delegate, decide fast and communicate relentlessly
Resistance is engagement. Treat resistors as your most important stakeholders.
Your 90-day roadmap is only valuable if you act on it in the first 48 hours
Every session is customized to your industry and environment. The final agenda is confirmed with your facilitator before delivery.
For organizations planning, communicating or sustaining a change, and want leaders who bring people through it faster and with less resistance.
Leaders taking a team through restructuring, new systems, new processes or new leadership
Leaders who want a structured model rather than good intentions
A full day of instructor-led instruction
The frameworks and tools reference (Change Curve, ADKAR, Kotter, resistor profiles)
Two hands-on activities using a real change from your organization
A personal 90-day change leadership roadmap
Follow-up one-on-one coaching after the session
Live online: instructor-led, fully interactive, no travel
In-person: at your offices or a venue of your choice
Designed for cohorts of 6 or more
Two hands-on activities built around a real change from your organization
Pricing depends on delivery mode, group size and how much customization you want. Tell us the shape and we will quote it.
