PMI UK Webinar: Transitioning the reluctant organisation – how PMs make change happen. 9th November 2026

Strategy rarely fails in the boardroom; it fails in the corridors, meetings and inboxes where leaders interpret, adjust and quietly block the call to action. This presentation tackles the most stubborn problem in enterprise change: how to actually get a reluctant organisation to move.

This session explores the political nature of organisations, the mechanics of mobilising a “volunteer army” of middle managers and below, and the quarterly cadence that turns strategy into delivered outcomes.

Participants leave with a working influence map of their own context, a designed first sprint they can run inside their organisation (or their client’s), and seven design principles for getting bottom-up change off the ground.

Speaker

Ex CEO, Managing Director and Geschäftsführer, Jon Ward operates at the crossroads of agile, artificial intelligence, and business strategy. He lives by the Atlantic Ocean in Westward Ho!, England, with his wife, Tatiana. A lifelong learner, Jon contributed to the PMI’s new Manefesto for Business Agility and is currently a Principal AI Consultant at Automation Consultants. He is exploring how to apply Digital Models and AI to foster agility. Recently, he piloted modern working methods using agentive AI within a software solutions provider in the global financial services sector. Recognised as a Thought Leader by the professional body, the Agile Business Consortium, and a member of the Business Agility Think Tank.