// Executive program 2

Move the Organization

How to shape the conditions people actually respond to.

For leaders whose transformation is underway — and whose organization is not moving as expected.

// the situation

The strategy is right. The town halls went well. And still: hesitation, silence, workarounds, a middle management that nods and waits. We manage what we can see. But the part that decides the outcome is often the part we cannot see.

People do not respond to what leaders say. They respond to what experience has taught them.

// The question of these three days

Why are people not responding the way we expected — and what can leadership actually do about it?

  • DAY 1 — Read what is really happening.

    What is the organization actually doing — and why?

    Before you change behavior, understand it. Resistance, hesitation, silence, contradictory behavior, unwritten rules — and what people have learned from the transformations that came before.

    We use the Culture Stack to trace behavior back to assumptions, experiences and consequences.

    One question shows how it works: your best performer delivers, treats people badly — and gets promoted anyway. What does everyone else learn?

    You leave the day with a clear view of why your organization behaves the way it does today.

  • DAY 2 — Shape the conditions.

    What behavior does the transformation need — and what will make it credible?

    Which existing behaviors work against it? What does leadership reward, tolerate or ignore? Where do words and lived experience contradict each other? Which consequences have to change?

    Most of the day is spent on your case.

    You leave with a concrete set of leadership actions and consequences designed to shift behavior.

  • DAY 3 — Anchor the change.

    How do we make the new behavior become “how things are done here”?

    We work on repetition, leadership signals, decisions, consequences and the systems that reinforce behavior over time.

    The goal is to make the change credible enough, consistent enough and embedded enough that it no longer depends on individual leaders pushing it.

You leave with

A 90-day plan to move the organization by changing what people actually experience — not what they are told.

What moves the organization. 
Better messages alone rarely change behavior. People respond to the conditions they experience — what gets rewarded, tolerated, challenged and reinforced.

  • Format

    Three days at Taurus Mountains Farm. Five participants at most.

  • Fee

    €15,000 per participant,
    excl. VAT

  • Date

    Next open cohort: March 2027.

    Further dates available by arrangement, including dedicated cohorts for companies sending several participants.

  • Led by

    Dr. Cetin Nazikkol, former Group Chief Transformation Officer of thyssenkrupp AG.

// next step

Get in touch

The first step is a conversation about your transformation — what is not moving as expected, what may be shaping the organization’s response and whether Move the Organization is the right place to work on it.