Courses
Stakeholder Interview Training
This course will ensure that you build your strategies and programmes based on a deep understanding of your stakeholders.
When you are preparing to do any change work or intervention in a system such as the education system, health system, or energy system, the first step is to understand that system. And this means understanding the people who make it up, without judgment.
Stakeholder interviews help you step into their reality and see the world from their perspective. By engaging with stakeholders on a personal level, you also start developing relationships that are needed to achieve a deeper and more lasting change, and that will benefit everyone within the system.
Who is this stakeholder training for?
- change agents
- organizational leaders
- facilitators
- consultants
- strategists
- qualitative researchers
- community builders
- and those looking to develop new skills for working on complex challenges with multiple stakeholders.
Course Schedule
This course consists of 4 x 90 min sessions over 2 weeks.
All sessions take place on Zoom at:
- 3 – 4:30pm GMT
- 8:30 – 10pm IST
Sessions:
- Session 1 (120 min): Introduction to stakeholder interviews & Practicum 1
- Session 2 (90 mins): Practicum 2
- Session 3 (90 mins): Practicum 3
- Session 4 (90 mins): Debrief & applications of stakeholder interviews in your work
Course formats:
Plenary Sessions
Join Complexity University Faculty and course participants from around the globe to explore the theory and practice of working with complexity.
Break-out Sessions
Meet in smaller groups to examine real-world cases of applied complexity, and to reflect on how to apply these practices in your own context.
Community Platform
Collaborative learning and discussion will take place between sessions on a dedicated Basecamp forum throughout the course, and after it has ended.
Course Materials
Available to download – including session recordings, handouts, a completion certificate, and a digital course completion badge to display on your social media profiles.
Your lecturers
Lucy White
Lucy is a facilitator, process designer, entrepreneur and creative with 15 years experience working in the corporate, non-profit and social enterprise sectors. Past clients include Synchronicity Earth, WWF, The Lankelly Chase Foundation and UNPRI. Lucy holds a BA and MA from Cambridge University in Chinese Studies, and after graduation worked in London for five years as a conference producer in the energy, transport and financial sectors. Lucy left the city in 2010 and co-founded a sustainable tourism and events venue at West Lexham in Norfolk, UK. As a facilitator, Lucy has trained in Therapeutic Arts Facilitation, Equine Facilitated Learning and is an experienced Art of Hosting practitioner. She has been working with Complexity University since July 2020.
Alenka Zavasnik
Alenka is responsible for programme development, delivery and collaborative programme partnerships at 10-in-10.
Alenka has 20 years experience working on international initiatives to support entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, young people, and change-makers in capacity building, resilient leadership, partnerships and community development.
Alenka spent over a decade at CEED (Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development) and SEAF emerging markets investment management group, working in their field office in Slovenia and HQ in Washington D.C.
She has also spearheaded initiatives for growing entrepreneur networks in South-East Europe and Africa, business accelerator and mentorship programmes for entrepreneurs, and worked on several multi-stakeholder entrepreneurship and employment projects funded by the European Commission.
What do other students say about this course?
“Stakeholder interview can help you to understand and connect more deeply with the system you want to change and …find new ways and solutions more adapted to REALLY changing it!”
“This took me out of my comfort zone in the best way. I learned new skills with a fascinating group of people. Stakeholder interviews could be a game changer for how we engage with people at the heart of challenges we seek to tackle.”
How much does it cost?
This course is offered at a fee of $199 per person.
To ensure that you will be part of a diverse global cohort, we offer scholarships for those who struggle to access the course at the full fee.
Express Interest
Learn how to understand the realities of your stakeholders, and be able to create more effective and meaningful strategies.