Leading Change with Confidence

Implementing change and navigating complexities often leaves teams divided and leaders frustrated. Opposition, confusion, and conflicting priorities make the change process feel overwhelming. Leading change with confidence can be a powerful opportunity for growth and transformation.

Business strategist Tim Arnold offers a fresh perspective on navigating the complexities of change. By embracing the concept of “and” thinking, he empowers leaders to manage the inevitable tensions that arise during transitions. Through this learning event, participants will explore five critical areas where balance is key: blending innovation with consistency, validating both facts and feelings, aligning short-term wins with long-term goals, combining planning with action, and balancing complexity with simplicity.

This session will deliver a practical and actionable framework to approach change with confidence and empathy. Participants will gain insights to transform resistance and lead their teams through change with clarity and purpose. Change is challenging, but with the right mindset and strategies, it can also be a defining moment for success.

Event Details

Date & Time: March 26 2025, 13:00 to 14:30 EDT

Audience: All Public Service executives across Canada and internationally are invited to attend APEX’s learning events

Cost: Free

Language: This event will be offered in English only. Simultaneous interpretation will be available via Wordly, an AI-based interpreting service.

Platform:Participants will attend our virtual event via Teams webinar . A meeting link will be sent once you are registered.

Resources

Fewer Priorities, Better Executed: Transforming Strategy

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Tim Arnold
Leadership Development and Teambuilding Expert

Leaders and teams are often in a tug-of-war, facing competing demands such as planning vs. action, structure vs. flexibility, change vs. stability, and work vs. home. In order to thrive, they must tackle these tensions head on. For over two decades, Tim Arnold has helped leaders better manage complexity, increase resilience, and deliver results, with past clients including United Nations, UPS, Allstate Insurance, and Stanford Medicine. He equips audiences with powerful tools that help them understand and breakthrough chronic issues and leverage healthy tension in their efforts to pursue both profit and purpose.

Having launched and sold a successful for-profit business, pioneered a social enterprise, and led a homeless shelter, Arnold leverages real-world experience to guide leaders and organizations. His keynotes and workshops are not just events; they’re transformative experiences. His specialty is helping professionals harness the power of “and” thinking in what’s becoming an increasingly “either/or” world.

Arnold is the author of four bestselling books: Lead with AND: The Secret to Resilience and Results in a Polarized World; The Power of Healthy Tension: Overcoming Chronic Issues and Conflicting Values; Next-Level Teamwork: The Five Tensions to Manage for High Performance Teams; and his latest, Leading Change: The 5 Tensions to Manage for Successful Transformation.

Leading Change with Confidence