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Culture in the Organization: Leader, Values, Team
dates of programs start
16/10/2025
Format
2 modules of 3 days each
10:00 - 17:30 [offline]
cost
60 000 uah
Culture in the Organization: Leader, Values, Team
The program helps company executives and owners understand the actual culture that exists within their organization, identify the culture needed to achieve strategic goals, and develop a practical trajectory for change.
Target audience of the program are founders, CEOs, executives, and top teams who strive to
build an organization based on new values, but do not fully understand how to make that transition or which values are truly needed to move in the desired direction.
identify what aspects of the existing culture should be preserved, strengthened, or let go for future development, and where to begin the logic of cultural transformation.
understand the nature of resistance and learn how to work with the team as a full-fledged agent in developing the organization’s culture.
recognize their individual leadership profile, management style, and the type of culture they have created within the organization.
find a shared core and learn to see what unites them, as well as which differences strengthen them as a unified whole.
overcome unproductive cultural manifestations — toxicity, inertia, and irresponsibility.
Throughout the program, we work on the following:
Developing an understanding of what organizational culture is and how we, as managers, can interact with it.
Identifying the current cultural constraints that most limit the organization's development.
Defining the type of culture the organization needs to implement its strategy and creating a vision of the desired (target) culture.
Recognizing which elements of the current culture are the "load-bearing walls" that should be preserved, and what aspects can be changed.
Creating a practical roadmap for the transition: what scenarios might unfold, what to expect, what to rely on, and which mistakes to avoid.
Answering the key question: “What needs to be done, and by whom, to evolve the organization's culture?”
The structure of the program
How is the program going?

Each module consists of three full days of in-person learning, from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM. These days, we explore frameworks, research, and approaches to organizational culture, work with case studies, reflect, engage in discussions, and test methodologies — using examples from our own organizations and leadership roles.

Between modules, participants complete individual assignments that involve engaging their teams. They hold one-on-one conversations with colleagues, gather feedback, and test assumptions about values and the actual state of their organization’s culture.

A unique value of the program lies in its multidimensional approach to culture: we explore it from various angles — through feedback practices, diverse evaluation approaches, personal experience, and team interaction. Participants work with real cases, investigate how culture connects to strategy, management systems, the CEO's and the team's roles, and shape their trajectory for change.

MODULE 1
Culture: as is / to be
This module is about taking an honest look at the current state of the organization's culture and making the first steps toward envisioning what it should become. We explore internal limitations, gather indicators of the desired changes, and begin shaping
June 30 – July 2

Day 1

  • Identifying what in the culture creates tension or dissatisfaction: which cultural manifestations hinder development, why they cause difficulties, and where the root of the challenges lies.
  • Initial culture diagnosis: identifying unproductive patterns — toxicity, inertia, irresponsibility, etc.
  • Aligning the organization’s strategic direction with existing cultural elements — exploring the role of culture in achieving goals.
  • Formulating initial hypotheses about the desired culture: what it should look like to support growth.
  • Introduction to cultural frameworks and metaphors — the "culture house," six atoms of a sustainable organization, rituals, symbols, narratives, and Hofstede’s cultural attributes.

 

Day 2

  • Exploring the role of founders, leaders, and teams in shaping culture: sources of managerial decisions and values.
  • Managerial beliefs and biases as factors influencing culture: how strengths can become growth limitations.
  • Identifying gaps between declared values and how they are manifested in processes, behaviors, and decisions.
  • Working with individual values: analyzing personal test results, gathering feedback from colleagues, and reflecting on perception differences.
  • Understanding how values are translated into culture.

 

Day 3

  • Analyzing the “honest present” and envisioning the future: what aspects of the culture support the strategy and which ones hold it back?
  • Defining the cultural PIN-code: what to preserve, what to nurture, what to eliminate, and what to realize for future development.
  • Cultural layers in the integral approach: how personal, team, organizational, and societal levels interact.
  • Diagnosing the “health” of the culture. Key indicators of a healthy organization. Who is responsible for it? Prevention and treatment.
  • Reframing cultural assumptions: what we see as a problem, what constitutes real limitations, and what can be a foundation for moving toward the desired culture.

MODULE 2
What your path toward the desired culture might look like
The goal of this module is to view culture as a space of opportunity for organizational development, to gather a vision of the desired cultural state, and to design a practical trajectory for change.
July 28–30

Day 1

  • Identifying key "blind spots" in the perception of the current state of culture: individual and group diagnostics.
  • Forming a vision of the desired culture: What culture do we need? What are its key elements? What rules govern it? What can become the anchor points on the way to change?
  • Working with the culture transformation algorithm: the four stages of transition, typical challenges, and the internal pulse of change.
  • Defining the starting point and the cultural evolution vector.

 

Day 2

  • Moving to the desired state of culture: what stages and iterations does the organization go through, what challenges arise, and what can we rely on to make changes possible?
  • Navigating change: How do we make the transition? Is a radical cultural reorganization possible, and how? What challenges lie ahead? What elements must be in place for the transition to begin in our organization? What cultural transformation elements can we start thinking about?
  • Roles in change: what responsibilities does the owner, CEO, top team, HR, and team have — and how do they interact?
  • What supports the progress of culture: rhythm, small steps, and organizational discipline.
  • How to work with resistance: what to pay attention to, how to prepare the team for the process, who and when to involve.

 

Day 3

  • Core culture and subcultures: How to build a managed system and maintain diversity.
  • How culture integrates into processes (and vice versa): hard & soft approaches to change.
  • Creating an individual transition map (road-map): what to rely on, where to start, what must happen.
  • Final integration: Which management steps are important immediately after the program?

Faculty
Iryna Morzhova more details
Julia Plieva more details
Adjunct professor
Olha Balashova more details
Adjunct professor
Natalia Cherepukhina more details
Eduard Maltsev more details
CORE
Kateryna Prokorenko more details
What is required for admission?
1.
Application form
fill out the application form on the website
2.
Communication
talk to the program manager
3.
Participation confirmation
booking a place in the group is made after payment
cost
60 000 uah
Apply for the program
For more information about the program, please contact
Olena Diadikova
EDP program manager
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