Lead Change That Lasts
Become a Certified 9 Ps Change Practitioner through one comprehensive six-month experience, applying a proven framework to a real change initiative in your own organization.
An immersive, practice-based pathway to leading change that lasts
The 9 Ps Change Management Certification is built for leaders and consultants ready to lead organizational change with confidence, rigor, and care. Through live workshops, hands-on application, mentored advising, required readings, and self-paced learning, you build the knowledge, skill, and judgment to diagnose, plan, lead, and sustain change as an internal or external consultant. The program is grounded in the 9 Ps for Leading Change, our practical framework for guiding change from the first human reaction through to lasting adoption, and you apply it throughout to a real initiative in your own organization.
People-centered, systemic change
Our work is grounded in Whole-Person Leadership, the belief that leaders are people first. That same conviction shapes how we approach change. Lasting change begins with people and is sustained through systems. Organizations do not change until the people in them are ready to, and even committed people cannot sustain a new way of working if the surrounding structures, processes, and policies still reward the old one. Four commitments run through every stage of the framework.
Inclusion
Bring the right voices in early and often.
Communication
Make the change clear, honest, and human.
Collaboration
Solve adaptive challenges with the people closest to the work.
Support
Hold people through the real experience of transition.
- Change begins with people, attending to emotion, resistance, and engagement rather than treating transformation as a purely technical exercise.
- Change is sustained through systems, aligning processes, structures, roles, and policies so new ways of working hold.
- Practitioners diagnose before they prescribe, reading the organization and its context before acting.
- Learning translates immediately into impact, applied to a real change in your own organization.
Built for people who lead change
Whether you guide change from inside your organization or advise others through it, this certification gives you a shared language, a proven framework, and a credential to match your practice.
For Individual Professionals
- Internal change agents and organizational development professionals leading transformation
- HR, talent, and learning and development professionals seeking a formal change credential
- Project and program managers responsible for change adoption and results
- Team, functional, and senior leaders guiding their organizations through change
- External consultants and advisors who guide client organizations through change
For Organizations
- Companies building internal change capability and a shared change language
- Teams preparing for or actively undergoing significant transformation
- Organizations developing leaders who can lead change that lasts
- HR and talent teams seeking a credential for their internal change practitioners
A curriculum built around the 9 Ps for Leading Change
Every module combines instruction with live practice, feedback, and direct application to your capstone project. The curriculum is balanced across diagnosis, strategy, the human dimension of change, and sustaining results.
Learn why change succeeds or fails and where leaders and consultants make the difference. Establish the foundation of the framework, Attending to the People, and lead the human side of change from day one. Launch and scope your capstone initiative.
Read the forces driving change with a PESTEL scan of the external environment and a clear look at the internal context. Diagnose the gap between where the organization is and where it needs to be, then build and present an evidence-based business case leaders can act on.
Translate the business case into a vision people can see and commit to, supported by a compelling narrative and clear communication. Define what success looks like, including outcomes, measures, baselines, and accountability, so progress can be tracked.
Set the guiding values and principles that steer decisions when uncertainty is high, and surface the assumptions that hold change back. Engage the people closest to the work to solve adaptive challenges through facilitation, experimentation, and pilots.
Make new ways of working stick. Reinforce new behaviors through modeling, coaching, and recognition, and align the processes, structures, and roles around them. Institutionalize the change through policy, governance, and norms so it endures.
Bring the full framework together, using the 9 Ps as a diagnostic and planning tool. Measure and communicate your impact, then prepare and rehearse your capstone for the residency weekend.
Eight on-demand modules
Begin anytime and complete on your own schedule to deepen your expertise.
- Environmental Scanning
- Strategic Thinking and Change
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Understanding Organizational Culture
- Change Governance
- Change and Transition
- Building Employee Change Capabilities
- Assessing Readiness at Every Level
Guidance from senior consultants
Personalized development with a senior change consultant, tracked through the program learning platform.
- Group sessions for case work and live problem-solving
- One-on-one advising on your capstone project and presentation
- Required readings that support and deepen every module
A real initiative, from the early weeks onward
You apply each P and its tools to a change initiative in your own organization, building a change playbook and culminating in a twenty to thirty minute capstone presentation delivered at the residency weekend. This is where the framework becomes practice and the learning becomes results.
Every component, start to finish
The certification education total of 47 hours fully meets the learning requirement for the credential, with mentored advising and applied practice building real capability on top of it.
| Component | Hours | What You Receive |
|---|---|---|
| Orientation | 2 | Welcome, program walkthrough, certification pathway, cohort kickoff, and capstone launch |
| Core Modules | 36 | Six immersive modules covering the full 9 Ps change journey |
| Self-Paced Learning | 9 | Eight on-demand modules to deepen your expertise |
| Certification Education Total | 47 | Fully meets the learning requirement for the credential |
| Required Readings | Self-paced | Curated readings that support every module |
| Mentored Capstone Advising | 10 | Group and one-on-one advising with a senior change consultant |
| Applied Change Practice | 30 to 40 | Applying the 9 Ps to a real change initiative in your organization |
| Residency Weekend | 14 | Capstone presentations, master classes, and certification |
A six-month blended journey
One comprehensive format delivers the full curriculum and the complete pathway to the credential. It is designed for working professionals who keep their weekdays focused on their current role while building change capability alongside it.
Format Snapshot
- Duration
- 6 months
- Live Sessions
- 2 to 2.5 hours every two weeks, virtual, about 12 sessions across the program
- Off-Weeks
- Devoted to required readings, self-paced learning, and applied capstone work
- Capstone
- Presentations delivered over a residency-style weekend
- Delivery
- Virtual, with the closing residency weekend offered in-person or virtual
Months 1 and 2: Foundations and Diagnosis
Orientation and the foundations of change leadership (Module 1). Scan the external environment with PESTEL, read the internal context, diagnose the organization, and build and present the business case (Module 2). Launch and scope your capstone, and begin self-paced modules and required readings.
Months 3 and 4: Vision and Solutions
Work through the core of the 9 Ps: vision, communication, and clarifying performance (Module 3), then guiding principles and exploring solutions (Module 4). Mentored capstone advising begins, with active application and feedback.
Months 5 and 6: Sustain and Certify
Reinforce, align, and sustain through behaviors, processes, and policies (Module 5). Integrate the full framework, measure impact, and prepare your presentation (Module 6). Residency weekend, capstone presentations, and certification.
Why choose Performance Plus International
Built on the 9 Ps for Leading Change, a proven and practical framework
A balanced mix of live workshops, mentored advising, required readings, and self-paced learning
Real application to a change initiative in your own organization from day one
A specialized focus on leading change as an internal or external consultant
Hands-on practice, real-time feedback, and applied learning throughout
Senior change consultants guiding your development as mentors and advisors
A supportive cohort community of peers committed to professional excellence
More than twenty-five years of PPI experience across sectors in leadership, coaching, and change
One streamlined experience, flexible ways to pay
The 9 Ps Change Management Certification combines live workshops, mentored advising, required readings, and a real-world capstone in one comprehensive pathway to becoming a Certified 9 Ps Change Practitioner. Flexible payment plans make it manageable alongside a full professional life.
PPI Alumni Discount
Have you participated in any Performance Plus International learning engagement? You qualify for a $500 alumni discount. Just mention your prior PPI program when you enroll.
What Is Included
- All live workshops and the residency weekend
- 10 hours of mentored capstone advising with a senior change consultant
- Access to all eight self-paced online modules, 9 hours of learning
- Curated required readings for every module
- Program materials, learning platform access, and cohort community
- Your capstone project and the Certified 9 Ps Change Practitioner credential
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Ready to lead change that lasts?
Your path to becoming a Certified 9 Ps Change Practitioner starts with a conversation. We will learn about your goals, answer your questions, and help you decide whether the program is the right fit for you or your organization.
