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    Overview

    What's Included

    Course Highlights

    Eligibility Criteria

    Benefits

    Exam Format

    Certification Cost

    Who Can Take

    What Is the Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Certification?

    Your Route to Leading Change

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    What's Included in Your Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Training

    • Accredited Digital courseware

    • Live instructor-led training: 3-day Foundation (24 hours) + 2-day Practitioner (16 hours) — 40 hours total, at 8 hours per day

    • Full-length mock exams for both Foundation and Practitioner

    • Guided open-book technique coaching for the Practitioner paper

    • Scenario-based exercises and knowledge checks

    • Exam-focused guidance for first-attempt readiness on both papers

    • 40 PDUs on completion of the training (24 Foundation + 16 Practitioner)

    • Retake the training within 2 months at no additional cost

    • Recordings of all training sessions.

    Key Highlights

    of the Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Training Course

    Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Eligibility in San Diego

    Do You Qualify for the Change Management F&P Exam?

    Benefits

    Of the Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Course

    Change Management F&P Exam Format in San Diego

    What to expect on exam day

    The Change Management Foundation and Practitioner exams in San Diego assess your understanding of change management principles and your ability to apply them in real-world organizational environments. The Foundation exam focuses on core concepts, terminology, and frameworks through multiple-choice questions, while the Practitioner exam evaluates your ability to analyze scenarios and apply change management techniques to practical business situations. Understanding the structure, duration, and passing requirements of both exams helps candidates prepare effectively and approach certification with confidence.

    Change Management F&P Certification Cost in San Diego

    Who Should Take Change Management F&P Certification Training in San Diego?

    • Change Leaders

    • Change Project Managers

    • Transformation Managers

    • Business Change Managers

    • Operational Line Managers

    • Project Team Members

    • HR Representatives

    • Business Managers

    • Project and Program Managers

    Change Management Careers in San Diego

    Roles, Demand and Earning Power

    Change management is one of San Diego's fastest-growing professional capabilities, as biotech, defense, healthcare and technology employers restructure and roll out major digital transformation programs. Certified professionals progress from Change Management Analyst to Organizational Change Manager and Business Transformation Director, and San Diego pay runs well above the national average. Here is what the local market is telling us right now.

    Change Challenges Driving Demand in San Diego

    Change management is more than a credential. It is the capability employers need to make transformation stick. Join professionals leading the people side of change across San Diego. Start your journey today.

    Your San Diego Career Transformation

    Where You Stand Today,

    And Where Certification Takes You

    San Diego's biotech, healthcare, defense and technology employers are running large transformation and modernization programs, and they increasingly separate certified change leaders from the rest. Here is which side of that line you want to be on.

    Sources: Salary.com, Comparably, ZipRecruiter, PayScale (San Diego and US) 2026.

    How to Get Change Management F&P Certified in San Diego

    Step-by-Step Certification Process

    Embark on the road to Change Management certification exam success in San Diego. The certification path is a structured two-exam track: complete the 5-day Invensis Learning training, sit the Foundation exam (50 MCQ / 40 min / 50% pass / closed book), then the Practitioner exam (5 scenario-based sections of 16 marks / 2.5 hours / 50% pass / objective testing). On passing both, you earn the Change Management Foundation and Practitioner credentials.

    Module 2: Team Change

    • Understanding the Nature of theme models
    • Identify leadership issues in Change
    • Learning how to improve team effectiveness. Also, how individuals affect team dynamics
    • Learn Tuckman's model of team change and the development changes teams go through

    Module 3: Organizational Change

    • Understanding the various organizational metaphors, like Flux and Transformation organizational metaphor
    • Learn the eight-step model for transforming your organization
    • Identify the three phases in transition management and distinguish between a planned and transitional change
    • Understand the process involved when managing Change

    Module 4: Leading Change

    • What is the leader's role in the key organizational metaphors
    • Learn the role of a leader in Change Management
    • Identify the leadership focus for the various phases of Change
    • Learn the Goleman leadership skills and practices

    Module 1: Individual Change

    • The defining features of models which describe how people learn:
    • The learning process and the learning dip; the Gestalt terms 'foreground' and 'background'; the sequence of the learning process (conscious/unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence)
    • The stages and sequence of the 'learning cycle' (Kolb) and the related learning styles
    • The perspectives associated with the cognitive approach to change
    • Achieving results and setting goals; the 'well-formed outcome'; the sequence which connects self-concept to results
    • Techniques for changing beliefs and performance
    • The perspectives associated with the psychodynamic approach to change
    • The sequences and terms used in theories using the idea of a 'change curve' (Kubler-Ross; Adams, Hayes and Hopson
    • The sequences and terms used in the Virginia Satir model and critical points in the change process (Satir; Weinberg)
    • The perspectives associated with the humanistic psychology approach to change
    • The levels and terms used in the hierarchy of needs (Maslow)
    • The three 'crucial conditions' to bring about growth and development with individuals within organizations and process of change (Rogers and the path to personal growth)
    • The Gestalt approach to individual and organizational change; the terms used and sequence of the Gestalt cycle (Perls; Nevis)
    • The individual personality 'preferences' identified by the MBTITM and the responses of four types of individuals to change (Myers and Briggs)
    • The factors that influence how to manage change in self and others
    • Propensity for change - five factors (Cameron and Green)
    • The stages and terms used in the transformative change model and factors causing resistance to change (Schein)
    • How managers and change agents can help others to change
    • The theories and models about the nature of teams
    • What is a group and when is it a team? (Various)
    • Why we need teams and the relationship between uncertainty and teamwork (Casey) 3. Types of organizational teams (Cameron and Green)
    • How to Improve Team Effectiveness. The five elements that contribute to the level of a team's effectiveness or ineffectiveness (Glaser and Glaser)
    • Tuckman's model of team change and the stages of development that teams go through
    • Leadership Issues in Team Change. The phases that groups go through and the challenges for leaders (Bion and Turquet) (see Appendix A, Note 1)
    • How individuals affect team dynamics
    • MBTI and Teams
    • Similarity and difference between individuals within teams (McCaulley) 3. Team types (Belbin)

    Module 2: Team Change

    • The elements of theories and models about how individuals affect team dynamics
    • How team members with different MBTI react to one another in teams and their attitudes to change
    • The advantages and disadvantages of similarity and difference between individuals within teams (McCaulley)
    • The contributions and allowable weaknesses of people playing different team roles (Belbin)
    • How team effectiveness can be improved during change using: Glaser and Glaser's five elements (defined in 0202); Tuckman's model of team change (defined in 0203); Bion and Turquet's leadership issues (defined in 0204); the John Adair model; the team leader's role and behaviors; facilitation; and action learning.
    • How different types of teams and different individuals within teams affect the way teams react to change (as identified in 0201 and 0205)

    Module 3: Organizational Change

    • The key beliefs and assumptions associated with the Machine organizational metaphor (Morgan)
    • The key beliefs and assumptions associated with the Political Systems organizational metaphor (Morgan)
    • The key beliefs and assumptions associated with the Organisms organizational metaphor (Morgan)
    • The key beliefs and assumptions associated with the Flux and Transformation organizational metaphor (Morgan)
    • The underlying principles behind understanding the driving forces and resisting forces in any situation if change is to happen:
    • Force Field Analysis, examining the driving and resisting forces (Lewin)
    • Three-step model of organizational change (Lewin)
    • The factors in the change formula (Beckhard and Harris)
    • The four phases of planned change that draws on the disciplines of project management (Bullock and Batten)
    • The Eight Step Model for transforming your organization (Kotter) (Note: Fig.3.3 on P127 is not examined)
    • The four components in the congruence model that draws on the socio-technical view of organizations and addresses the dynamics of what happens in an organization when we try to change it. (Nadler and Tushman)
    • The three phases in managing transition and the distinction between planned change and transition (Bridges)
    • The "principles of environmental systems" for how organizations operate and its relevance to sustaining and renewing organizational change (Senge et al)

    Module 4: Leading Change

    • The leader's role linked to each of the four key organizational metaphors
    • The description of visionary leadership including
    • The characteristics of visionary leaders (Bennis)
    • What leaders really do (Kotter)
    • The characteristics of other theories on leadership approaches
    • Transformational and transactional leadership (Bass; Bryman)
    • Story telling leadership (Gardner)
    • Adaptive leadership (Heifitz and Laurie)
    • Connective leadership (Lipman-Blumen) (Note: Leadership for the 21st century and Table 4.3 are not examined)
    • The characteristics of other theories on leadership approaches
    • Transformational and transactional leadership (Bass; Bryman)
    • Story telling leadership (Gardner)
    • Adaptive leadership (Heifitz and Laurie) 4. Connective leadership (Lipman-Blumen) (Note: Leadership for the 21st century and Table 4.3 are not examined)
    • The leadership styles and skills (Goleman)
    • Leadership styles that get results
    • Emotional competencies for leaders
    • The different leadership focus for different phases of change:
    • Kotter's recommended actions for the first four change steps in leading change
    • Learning how to persevere (Kanter)
    • Leading people through transition (Bridges) (Note: Inner and outer leadership, Table 4.6, P185-6 not examined at Foundation level)
    • The importance of self-knowledge and inner resources:
    • The role of self-knowledge (Bennis)
    • Characteristics of principle-centered leaders (Covey)
    • Covey's seven habits (Note: Erikson, Table 4.8 is not examined)

    Course Curriculum

    of the Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training

    The Change Management F&P curriculum follows the official Change Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK) and covers Individual, Team, Organizational, and Leading Change at both Foundation and Practitioner depth.

    Change Management Foundation Course Curriculum

    Change Management Practitioner Course Curriculum

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    The Change Skills You Will Build

    Across the Foundation and Practitioner Levels

    This combined program builds change management knowledge, practical application skill and readiness for both exams. By the end, you can diagnose change situations, select the right models, and lead the people side of change in real organizational settings.

    Guiding Individuals Through Change

    Apply ADKAR and Bridges' Transition Model to help people move through endings, uncertainty and new beginnings, diagnosing where change stalls and addressing resistance with targeted interventions.

    Leading Organizational Change

    Select and apply Lewin's Three-Step Model, Kotter's 8-Step Model and McKinsey 7-S, assess culture and readiness, and match your change approach to the type and scale of the change.

    Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

    Map and analyze stakeholders, build engagement and communication plans, and use influence principles to reduce resistance and win support across a change program.

    Change Practice and Planning

    Run change impact assessments and build complete change management plans covering training, resistance management, benefits and embedding, integrated with the project timeline.

    Professional Change Leadership

    Apply emotional intelligence, coaching, ethics and self-management to lead change with credibility and resilience, drawing on the CMBoK and professional practice.

    Passing Both Exams with Confidence

    Master closed-book Foundation exam technique and open-book Practitioner scenario analysis, learning to navigate the Change Management Study Guide efficiently under timed conditions.

    Change Management F&P Training Options

    for Professionals and Teams

    We offer flexible training formats designed to suit different learning preferences, schedules, and professional goals. Whether you prefer classroom learning, live online sessions, team-based learning, or personalized coaching, choose the option that best supports your Change Management Foundation & Practitioner learning journey.

    Change Management Classroom Training

    • Instructor-led classroom sessions

    • Interactive discussions and group activities

    • Real-world examples and practical exercises

    • Structured learning with fixed schedules

    • Opportunities for peer networking and collaboration

    • Practice assessments and knowledge checks

    • Dedicated Q&A and concept clarification

    • Immediate trainer feedback and support

    Learn through face-to-face sessions led by experienced instructors in a collaborative classroom environment. This Classroom Change Management F&P training format combines expert guidance, peer interaction, and practical exercises to create an engaging learning experience.

    Best For: Learners who prefer in-person interaction, structured schedules, and collaborative learning experiences.

    Change Management Corporate Group Training

    • Customized training aligned to organizational goals

    • Flexible delivery: onsite, virtual, hybrid, or blended

    • Scheduling tailored to business availability

    • Role-based examples and industry-relevant discussions

    • Progress tracking and learner assessments where applicable

    • Dedicated coordination and administrative support

    • Consistent learning experiences across teams

    • Scalable delivery for local, regional, or global workforces

    Designed for organizations that want to build change leadership capabilities, improve transformation outcomes, and support workforce development through structured learning initiatives. This format is ideal for Change Management F&P training for companies in San Diego seeking to equip teams with practical change management skills.

    Best For: Organizations looking to upskill employees, address capability gaps, and deliver consistent training across teams.

    Change Management Focused 1-to-1 Training

    • One-to-one instructor attention

    • Customized learning plans and objectives

    • Flexible scheduling based on availability

    • Personalized feedback and coaching

    • Additional focus on challenging topics

    • Targeted practice and revision support

    • Faster clarification of questions and concepts

    • Learning pace is adapted to individual needs

    Receive personalized instruction tailored to your goals, pace, and learning requirements through dedicated sessions with an expert trainer. This format provides Change Management F&P coaching for professionals seeking individualized support with certification preparation, stakeholder engagement strategies, and organizational change initiatives.

    Best For: Professionals seeking personalized guidance, accelerated learning, or focused support to achieve specific outcomes.

    Change Management Live Virtual Training

    Change Management Live Virtual Training

    Live online instructor-led sessions

    Interactive discussions and virtual activities

    Expert guidance from experienced trainers

    Practice assessments and revision support

    Dedicated Q&A sessions for concept clarification

    Fixed schedules for accountability and momentum

    Small batch sizes for personalized attention

    Access from any location with internet connectivity

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    USD 1475

    Please Note: Attend fully interactive online sessions from anywhere while benefiting from real-time instructor guidance and collaborative learning experiences. This Virtual Change Management F&P training option provides flexibility while maintaining direct engagement with experienced trainers.

    Best For: Professionals seeking the flexibility of online learning without compromising on live instructor interaction.

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    Why Choose Invensis Learning in San Diego

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    As a trusted training company in San Diego, Invensis Learning delivers structured Change Management Foundation and Practitioner training for professionals and organizations building change capability and preparing for both exams. Our programs combine experienced trainers, courseware aligned to the CMBoK and syllabi, flexible delivery, and learner-focused support. Whether you enroll as an individual or plan corporate training for your team, Invensis Learning provides a professional experience designed around practical understanding, real-world application and measurable outcomes, backed by ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2022 certification.

    • Experienced, change-qualified trainers with real transformation experience
    • Instructor-led delivery covering both Foundation and Practitioner levels
    • Structured courseware aligned to the CMBoK and both exam syllabi
    • Foundation and Practitioner mock exams and practice questions included
    • Flexible formats for individuals, professionals and corporate teams
    • Guidance to help you clear both certification exams on the first attempt
    • Dedicated learner support before, during and after training
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    Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Training Locations in San Diego

    Instructor-led in-person Classroom training is available for group batches. All other public cohorts are delivered as Instructor-led Live Virtual. See available cohorts

    Change Management Foundation and Practitioner Training Location in San Diego

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    For Your Teams

    • Suitable for small, medium and large teams across the organization
    • Customized schedules aligned to team and business availability
    • Flexible delivery through onsite, live virtual or hybrid formats
    • Experienced trainers with relevant change and industry expertise
    • Role-based, sector-relevant examples for better workplace application
    • Dedicated coordination and learner support for group programs
    • Scalable delivery for teams across San Diego and global locations

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    Yes. It validates your ability to lead the people side of change, a capability in strong demand across San Diego's biotech, healthcare, defense and technology employers. Change Manager roles in the city average around $141,000, and certified professionals stand out where credentialed change talent is scarce.