Change Portfolio Management (CPM) is an enterprise-level discipline that enables organisations to understand, prioritise, and sequence multiple change initiatives based on their combined impact, organisational capacity, and strategic alignment. As change becomes continuous rather than episodic, CPM provides leaders and practitioners with the visibility needed to manage risk, reduce overload, and improve the likelihood that business benefits are realised.
Most organisations still plan and deliver change one initiative at a time. While this approach can work in stable environments, it breaks down when multiple initiatives are introduced concurrently.
Without a portfolio view:
Even well-managed initiatives can fail when their cumulative impact is not understood.
Change Portfolio Management shifts the focus from individual delivery to enterprise-wide impact.
It enables organisations to:
This leads to more sustainable change and better business outcomes across the portfolio.
Change management focuses on helping people adopt a specific change or initiative. It addresses readiness, engagement, capability, and sustained behaviour change at the initiative level.
Change Portfolio Management looks across all initiatives happening at the same time. It considers their combined impact on people, resources, timing, and strategic objectives.
Both practices are essential. Strong change management supports individual initiatives, while Change Portfolio Management ensures those initiatives can succeed together.
This course is designed for professionals who operate in complex change environments, including:
If you are expected to influence decisions beyond a single initiative, CPM capability is now critical.
The Change Portfolio Management courses are delivered online through a guided and interactive learning experience. They are designed to fit around professional commitments while providing tools and insights that can be applied immediately in real organisational contexts.
The courses have been developed by experienced change professionals and reflects the realities of managing change in complex organisations.
The Change Management Institute is a global, independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the professional practice of change management and Change Portfolio Management through standards, education, and research.
Change Portfolio Management becomes essential when organisations experience:
If these challenges sound familiar, CPM provides a structured and practical way forward.
The Change Portfolio Management Foundation course introduces the core concepts and practices of Change Portfolio Management. It is designed for professionals who want to understand how to manage change from a portfolio perspective and build a strong foundation before progressing to advanced application.
This course introduces foundational CPM concepts through:
The focus is on developing a clear understanding of Change Portfolio Management principles and how they apply in real organisational contexts.
Course delivery
The Foundation course is delivered virtually over four consecutive half-days, providing structured learning while allowing time to reflect and apply concepts between sessions.
The Change Portfolio Management Advanced course builds on the Foundation course and is designed for experienced professionals applying Change Portfolio Management at a senior or enterprise level.
This course cannot be undertaken without completing the Change Portfolio Management Foundation course.
It assumes prior knowledge of:
Eligibility requirements
Participants must:
These requirements ensure participants can engage at the appropriate level of depth and complexity.
Course delivery
The Advanced course is delivered virtually over two consecutive weeks and is structured to support deeper application and integration.
Delivery includes:
This structure allows participants to apply learning between weeks and bring real organisational challenges into the course.
Do you know if your changes are in alignment with the strategy?
Change Portfolio Management (CPM) will let you know if there are any overlapping projects and also show you if your SMEs are overcapacity.Â
See if there is saturation, collisions and overlapping projects.
And importantly, that the changes align with the strategy. This will help people make sense of this change, sequence it the right way, align it with everything else and give you proper insights to lead it well.
You can move from ‘Change Fatigue’ and improve your ‘Change Fitness’ with CPM.
👉 Want to learn how to do it properly (without burning out your best people)? Register to attend a course now.
It’s virtual. It’s practical. And no, it’s not death by PowerPoint.
POV: When change saturation is not considered.
Your most trusted SME just became the tester, change champion, trainer, town hall speaker, and general go-to for every change initiative.
No one checked their availability.
No one tracked the cumulative change effort.
And now… they’re at 300% capacity, running on coffee and good intentions.
This is what happens when we don’t manage change as a portfolio.
Change Portfolio Management (CPM) gives you visibility across initiatives, helps avoid overload, and ensures the right people are supporting the right changes, at the right time.
👉 Want to learn how to do it properly (without burning out your best people)? Register to attend a course now.
It’s virtual. It’s practical. And no, it’s not death by PowerPoint.
Â
CPM is a critical topic in today’s fast-paced business world, especially as organisations juggle increasing amounts of change. For three women leading the charge in this space: Jenn Zuber, Bernice Maldonado and Angela Neilson, the challenges are many, but the successes even more significant.
See the article extract here Members can watch the full event recording in the member hub
This course assumes prior knowledge regarding change management concepts and change/project delivery
language. Participants must:
This is a 3.5 day course delivered virtually over two consecutive weeks:
Change Portfolio Management is an enterprise-level discipline that enables organisations to understand, prioritise, and sequence multiple change initiatives based on their combined impact, organisational capacity, and strategic alignment. It helps leaders manage change at scale and improve the likelihood that business benefits are realised.
Change management focuses on enabling people to adopt a specific change or initiative. Change Portfolio Management looks across all initiatives happening at the same time and considers their cumulative impact on people, resources, timing, and strategic objectives. Both practices work together to support sustainable transformation.
Change Portfolio Management is important because organisations are increasingly managing multiple concurrent changes. Without a portfolio view, initiatives can compete for attention and resources, overload teams, and fail to deliver intended outcomes. CPM improves visibility, prioritisation, and decision-making.
This training is suited to change practitioners, transformation and strategy leaders, portfolio and PMO professionals, and executives who are responsible for overseeing multiple initiatives and improving organisational change outcomes.
You will learn how to map the organisational change landscape, assess cumulative change impact and capacity, identify risks caused by overlapping initiatives, support prioritisation and sequencing decisions, and strengthen alignment between change activity and organisational strategy.
No. While Change Portfolio Management is often associated with complex or large organisations, it is relevant to any organisation experiencing multiple concurrent changes, rapid growth, or ongoing transformation.
By providing enterprise-wide visibility of change, Change Portfolio Management helps organisations reduce overload, manage risk, improve adoption, and increase the likelihood that strategic objectives and business benefits are achieved.
Yes. This is an online foundation course delivered through a guided and interactive learning experience, designed to provide practical tools and insights that can be applied immediately.
The course has been developed by experienced change professionals and complements established change management practice by introducing an enterprise-wide, strategic lens on change.
Organisations should introduce Change Portfolio Management when they experience increasing volumes of change, overlapping initiatives, change fatigue, limited visibility of enterprise-wide impacts, or inconsistent delivery of intended benefits.
