Duration, audience, language
- Duration: 70-90 minutes (or more with a keynote + workshop combo).
- Format: in-person, live-virtual or hybrid.
- Target audience: leaders & professionals at all levels.
- Language: English or French.
Overview
Most transformations fail for political reasons, not technical ones.
Competing priorities, stakeholder resistance, hidden agendas, and influence networks are part of every major change effort. The most effective change leaders don’t avoid politics. They learn to harness them ethically.
In this engaging and interactive keynote, Edmond begins with a defining story from early in his career. A mentor challenged his assumptions about change leadership and revealed a lesson that shaped more than 30 years of transformation success: organizational politics has two sides. The key is learning how to harness the light side.
Edmond then takes participants inside a major digital transformation marked by intense stakeholder conflict and exceptionally difficult internal dynamics. Through this compelling real-world case, he shows what Light-side Politics™ looks like in practice.
Along the way, participants discover the Six Change Personas™, Edmond’s practical framework for understanding the motivations, behaviours, and influence patterns that shape transformation. Delivered with Edmond’s trademark passion, humour, and audience interaction, this keynote challenges conventional thinking about organizational politics and equips participants to lead change with greater influence and impact.
Key highlights
- Discuss the critical importance of politics when driving change and how to ethically plunge into it.
- Learn how to use a proven tool for light-side politics™.
- Get inspired to multiply your effectiveness as a transformation leader!
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Excerpt from a live-virtual version of this keynote
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Other keynotes by Edmond Mellina
For anyone impacted by change
For change makers i.e. anyone working on transforming the organization
- The Six Change Personas™ – Multiplying our resilience and impact as change makers
- The Emotional Case™ – How to build a movement for change like Greta Thunberg
- Light-side Politics™ – How to use internal politics ethically when leading change
- Co-disruptors™ – What it takes to successfully disrupt from within
For sales pros and anyone who has to influence the external environment
For anyone involved in decision-making
For C-Suite executives & corporate directors
- The Nimble Transformation Executive™ – Raising our change leadership game for the new normal
- From Sluggish to Nimble™ – Disrupt change management to win in today’s fast-paced world