Culture Change Pioneers
Shape the Future of Your Organization!
New Dates: 2025-2026
In today's dynamic landscape, forward-thinking organizations prioritize dialogue-driven, inclusive, and digital workplace cultures. These dimensions not only enhance customer and employee experiences but also lay the foundation for responsible growth. Our Culture Change Pioneers program provides a unique social learning experience, empowering leaders with the skills to drive impactful cultural transformations.
Join us to explore how to shape cultures that attract top talent and foster meaningful client and citizen relationships, driving your organization toward responsible success!
Unlock your culture change potential
Is your organization struggling to achieve success due to a stagnant culture? Our Culture Change Pioneers program is designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge and competencies to spearhead transformative cultural change. With personalized coaching and hands-on training, you'll become a true pioneer in culture development and change management.
11%
of companies recognize the essential importance of linking corporate culture and financial performance. And thereby achieve:
100%
more sales growth than others through the right combination of culture and strategy.
Source: Heidrick & Struggles Report, 2021
Join us today and unlock your potential to drive your organization's culture towards success!
Your Benefits
Join Semira Soraya-Kandan and her team of highly experienced international experts for an immersive 10-day program on culture change that promises transformative outcomes. Through this program, you will:
Unlock Your Leadership Potential: Gain the insights necessary to become a visionary leader capable of driving meaningful cultural change within your organization.
Foster a Winning Culture: Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and adaptability, fostering a workplace environment where teams thrive and excel.
Drive Tangible Results: Experience tangible, measurable results as you implement strategies learned during the program, leading to increased productivity, employee engagement, and organizational success.
Personal Growth: Explore your own leadership strengths, and areas for growth, empowering you to become a more effective and inspiring leader both personally and professionally.
Peer Learning and Networking: Connect with a diverse group of peers and experts from around the globe, sharing insights, challenges, and best practices in a collaborative and supportive environment.
Continued Transfer & Implementation Support: Benefit from continued guidance and support beyond the program's duration, ensuring that you have the resources and tools necessary to sustain and build upon the culture change initiatives within your organization.
Certificate of Completion
Earn a Certificate of Completion to advance your career!
Be a pioneer of cultural change!
The Culture Change Pioneers program offers competency development, personal growth, and cutting-edge ideas for developing yourself and your organization in cultural change and transformation contexts. We utilize the power of connecting dialogue, diversity, and digital experiences.
Apply now for the "Culture Change Pioneers" program and
actively shape your company's future!
Our participants
The program is aimed at those responsible for culture development, particularly C-level, and their counterparts in Communications, People, Culture, and Organization Development, or Change Management functions in international business and the public sector. Our participants actively manage and confront a cultural change challenge and are ready to engage in a deep learning experience and implementation.
Soraya-Kandan Leadership Community
Our program
Culture Change Pioneers 2025-2026
We curate high-quality contents, invite renowned experts and clients from our networks. We also carefully select suitable candidates for the program.
Transfer Coaching
Personal Transfer Coaching helps us tailor the program to your needs and strengthen your impact in your culture change activities.
Facing New Realities
We frame culture change as Dialogic Organization Development focusing on selected future trends and their impact on organizations and cultural requirements. It also serves to align the program to the participants and their organizational needs.
Date: 13.11.2025 (0,5 days)
Utilizing Culture Paradoxes and Potentials
We take a deeper look at culture as a guiding concept for change to better understand its limits and its potentials. Lessons from a safety culture guest expert and numerous case studies help the participants to reflect priorities in steering their own culture projects.
Date: 22.-23.01.2026 (2 days)
Connecting Future-Ready Experiences
Together with our partner company, Futurescape, we show and explore how culture change contributed to connected customer and employee experiences that are future-ready and sustainable. We will focus on the impact of Agentic AI on leadership.
Date: 12.-13.03.2026 (2 days)
Dealing with Dialogic Challenges
Navigating communication and conflict during change and transformation entails heightened conflicts. To round off the participants’ experiences in their culture change processes, we utilize different dialogue and conflict regulation models to help them unblock and embrace conflicts to move forward instead of avoiding them.
Date: 07.-08.05.2026 (2 days)
CoachingOurselves
The CoachingOurselves peer group learning approach from our Canadian partners, Prof. Henry Mintzberg and Phil LeNir, is an integral part of your blended social learning experience. You will experience four modules and learn how to use the format as a multiplier of cultural change.
Exclusive Implementation Coaching Group
May - July 2026
Bonus Tickets
Including two free seats at our Leadership Dialogues event series in 2025 and 2026.
The way we work
Embark on a dynamic social learning journey with us. Elevate your social competencies by engaging in collaborative learning with diverse peers. Our program places your organization's culture development challenges at the forefront, driving our casework discussions. Beyond traditional lectures, we foster knowledge co-creation through interactive group activities and shared experiences. Benefit from transfer coaching, peer learning opportunities, and insights from expert guest speakers, ensuring a diverse and enriching learning experience.
Locations
All modules take place in Mannheim at the Motel One.
Join Semira Soraya-Kandan and her team of international, highly experienced experts for a 9 months deep dive program on culture change.
This program will help you develop a winning culture, contribute to your personal growth, and provide tangible results for your organization.
Your program leaders
Semira Soraya-Kandan
Founder, CEO, & Senior Consultant at Soraya-Kandan, Mannheim
Semira Soraya-Kandan is a German-Iranian leadership and organization consultant. For more than 25 years, she has developed leaders, consulted organizations on dialogic leadership, virtual collaboration, cultural competency, and organizational change.
She is founder & CEO of an international boutique consultancy in Mannheim. Her passion is to rethink leadership through dialogue, diversity & digital.
Semira studied psychology, speech communication, philosophy, and sociology in Germany and the USA. Today, she works worldwide with many international colleagues and partnering institutions.
Carsten Härtl
Senior Consultant at Soraya-Kandan, Mannheim
Carsten Härtl has been a part of the consulting network since 2021, after having been connected with Semira Soraya-Kandan as an internal consultant through joint diversity projects and leadership development programs for a long time.
Until 2019, he worked as responsible employee in a world-renowned chemical company for many years, working with executives at all levels and human resources managers. His main areas of focus are leadership quality, diversity management, talent development, HR tools, corporate culture, and organizational development.
Additional Faculty of Consultants and Partners
Syamant Sandhir
Senior Consultant at Soraya-Kandan, Mannheim
Syamant Sandhir is Managing Director of branding and customer experience company Futurescape: focusing on the use of technology to support the transformation towards a new way of working.
Stanley Deetz
Stanley Deetz is Prof. Emer. University of Colorado: consulting for human interaction, innovation & cultural change. OD processes and trainings for international organizations, including the IAEA.
Martina Müller-Krüger
Martina Müller-Krüger is Consultant and coach in organizational culture change processes, focus on Chinese subsidiaries of European and American companies and international leadership.
Philip LeNir
Philip LeNir is President and Co-Founder of Coaching-Ourselves together with Henry Mintzberg, designing peer group coaching programs to help organizations develop their leaders.
We reserve the right to assign alternative experts. Additional guests will be invited to join the modules and fireside evenings.
Contact us!
You will have a personal consultation with one of the lead trainers to ensure an optimal fit between your needs and the overall program.
Soraya-Kandan
academy & digital learning solutions
G 6, 11
68159 Mannheim
Germany
T +49 621 122 31 90
events@soraya-kandan.com
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