Change Maker MasterClass™
Supercharge your career and business with impactful and future-proof metaskills.
The Change Maker MasterClass will unleash your human superpowers: strategic thinking, creativity and curiosity, futures orientation, empathy and adaptability. These future-proof metaskills will help you become a digital age change maker and take your career and businesses to the next level.
Collectively digital age change makers can transform companies into more humane, creative and innovative to create future fit and sustainable businesses.
Limited seats available!
Do you feel like…
Driving change in the corporate world is too slow with skinny results?
Creating new business opportunities is impossible due to siloes and bureaucracy?
Technological development, and especially AI, is rapidly changing the skillset we need in our work?
Customer is just a word on the strategy slides?
There’s too little horizontal and strategic thinking across the organisation?
There’s more interest in past financial figures than the future?
There’s little understanding of digital age businesses and little room for creative problem-solving?
Aim for silver bullet solutions is many times overriding a systemic approach to change?
The skills you need to stand out.
Complete the Change Maker MasterClass™ in 6 game-changing modules.
Led by Paula Ylisassi and Jenni Saarenpää, two change makers who have seen it all with over 40 years of experience in digital age businesses as leaders and experts. Change Maker MasterClass™ consists of 6 modules, packed with future proof skills, fit for creating and growing digital age businesses.
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01: Strategic Mastermind
Learn how to think strategically and boost your critical thinking and become a strategic mastermind.
Why do we need strategic thinking across the organization?
How to start thinking like a strategic mastermind
Understand systems behind strategic choices
Identify and solve strategic challenges/opportunities
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02: Futures Thinker
Learn how to become futures thinker and aware of the futures, so that you can impact, build and prepare for alternative futures.
Why futures thinking is essential in business?
How to develop your futures thinking skills?
Are you futures conscious?
Start to spot trends and signals around you
Imagine futures and start building scenarios
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03: Business Conceptualiser
Learn how to conceptualise digital age business including strategies, business models, products, services and processes.
Why concepting skills are essential in the digital era and digital value production?
What can and should be conceptualized?
How to become a business conceptualizer?
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04: Curious Creator
Learn how to boost your innovation spirit and imagine big, bold and radically different future opportunities and ideas.
Business is more than just administration - why we need more creativity?
Dare to think big and bold!
How to get the innovation spirit?
Boosting creativity and staying curious
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05: Constructive Challenger
Learn how to constructively challenge the status quo to develop a more open and innovative culture.
Why do we need to challenge our own businesses?
How to constructively question and re-think ways of working, products and businesses?
How to gain courage to question the status quo?
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06: Homo Empathicus
Learn how to develop the much needed human skills such as emotional intelligence, listening skills and empathy.
What is empathy in the business context and how to increase it?
Learn how to put your ego aside
Learn to truly listen
Create a growth mindset with continuous learning and adapting
In Change Maker MasterClass you'll get access to skills that are not dependent on the role or position you’re working at, but offer a wider range of skills and tools to make use in whatever role you are, and independent of the industry or organisational setup.
Why did we create Change Maker MasterClass?
The exponential pace of technological development will transform the ways of working. Dull, routine jobs and tasks will be replaced by solutions that will not get tired, are speedy and precise, will not suffer from diseases or illnesses, or burn out. Which is great!!! That leaves us humans all the inspirational work that requires our human superpowers: ability to think holistically and generate insights from the information gathered by our digital assistants, use creativity to solve the complex problems we face and the ability to collaborate, understand and support each other in this ever-changing world. That’s why we need to build on the existing potential we all have within, and develop the relevant human skills to succeed. Change Maker MasterClass will provide you with skills that are not replaced with machines. At least not in the near future, that is :).
Benefits of this online training:
You’ll learn:
Skills that are essential in business but not tied to any role or industry
Skills for worklife, not some trendy gimmicks
Skills you can spread and teach others in your organisation
Skills to support innovative thinking and original ideas that transform businesses
Skills to support change and renewal in all levels of the organisation
Practical tools to implement thinking in practice
Experienced change makers as coaches
You’ll not be able to learn these essential business skills anywhere else
BETA MasterClass for first pilot students with BETA price 497€ (including taxes).
Instead of ending up desperate or cynical with the rise of AI, increase your chances to develop future proof businesses. Learning these skills will support your change maker journey and help you become a digital age strategic mastermind.
This course is for you, if you say “yes” to at least one of these:
I want to enforce my human skills and capabilities
I want to drive change and learn skills that support making the change
I want to create new business opportunities
I want to strengthen my existing change maker skills and learn new future-proof meta skills
I want to make an impact and create future opportunities
I want to change organisations for better, develop and spread new and creative ways of thinking and ways of working
I believe change always starts from oneself
With the right set of skills, tools and attitude I can make a difference
This course is NOT for you, if:
You resist change and are not willing to learn new and unlearn old
The only thing you care about is how to boost your own ego and your sole motivation is to climb the career ladder
You don’t believe that digitalization transforms businesses
You are an industrial age, bureaucratic leader who doesn’t want to let go of power, who doesn’t believe in collective intelligence and distributed leadership
Who are Paula and Jenni?
Founders of Change Makers’ Society and coaches of Change Maker MasterClass™
Paula Ylisassi
Paula is a change maker and an entrepreneur with a Master of Science degree in Business Administration, certified board member and certified product owner. Paula has 25 years of experience in digital business and leadership from different industries in big corporations as well as in start-ups in Finland and abroad. Paula has for instance built international business and brand from virtual assets over a decade before the metaverse, as well as been responsible of Finland’s biggest online bank’s market launch. Energy, inspirational authenticity, holistic business thinking and courage to challenge the status quo are Paula’s superpowers.
Jenni Saarenpää
Jenni is a change maker and an entrepreneur with a Master of Science degree in Information Processing Science as well as a Bachelor degree in Visual Communication. Jenni has 18 years of experience in creating business and product strategies, innovating pretty much anything as well as leading customer experience. Her professional career has consisted on e.g finding out new business opportunities as well as innovating ecosystems both in start-up world as well as with big international corporations. Jenni’s superpowers are systems thinking, creative problem-solving and holistic mindset and approach to business, customer experience and technology.
FAQ
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The course is for everyone wanting to change businesses to be more humane, innovative, creative and sustainable. It’s for change makers or people wanting to become one, who want to learn the essential meta skills of the digital era and create future proof businesses.
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Meta skills are cognitive skills that are not dependent on roles, expertise, project or industries but innate skills that enable you to succeed. In this course we teach you meta skills that are relevant in business context in the digital age so that you can boost your change maker superpowers and career: strategic thinking, futures awareness, empathy, concepting skills, creativity and courage to challenge.
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Digitalisation has changed everything in the way we do business. It continues to change customer behavior and even the way whole societies operate. Rise of AI will explode the ways we work, how we work and the skills we need in our work.
If you wish to thrive and succeed in the digital age, you need to have the proper skills and tools in place.
By learning digital era meta skills you’ll be better prepared and fit for the future.
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We are Paula and Jenni, coaches and founders of Change Makers’ Society. We have seen what the lack of holistic understanding of digital age business and important meta skills can do for individuals and businesses. You are stuck in the old way of doing things, feel frustrated, business is nothing but administration, you lose a lot of energy and resources on things that don’t really matter and don’t create value either for customers nor for businesses.
We’re not promising any silver bullets here. But have a look how digitalisation is changing pretty much every industry and company. Search for the fact that company lifespans are shortening all the time and in order to exist in the future you need to constantly challenge the status quo and renew yourself. The same applies to individuals. Routine jobs will be replaced with machines. AI will be our colleague in the future, handling all administrative or routine work as well us support us in the creative work we do. You need to learn new skills and unlearn old in order to be relevant.
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You will learn meta skills that will supercharge your career to the next level and that are essential for creating digital age businesses. Business is more than just administration. It is about creativity, innovation as well as human skills.
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When we talk about digital age business meta skills we refer to the skills that are applicable across different roles and positions and not tied to any specific expertise.
Also, this course is NOT about innovation / lean startup / design processes, business administration, corporate processes, implementation of technology or any HR stuff - the process is something you can google or ask AI and start implementing and experimenting.
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This is our first launch of the course and we’re taking 10 participants with beta price of 497€ including tax. The course price will go up for the next intake as we develop the course further.
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The course can be paid by card. Safe and reliable Stripe acts as the payment intermediary. If your employer pays for the training or you cannot pay by card for some other reason, you can also pay for the course with an invoice. Send your billing information to hello@changemakerssociety.fi. After a completed payment, you will be added to the course against a receipt.
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Register for the course and pay it. After registration, you will receive an email confirming the payment and more detailed instructions. So remember to monitor your e-mail and also check your spam box if necessary. This is a beta launch and significantly lower price than the actual price during next intake. You’ll get your money back 100%, if we don’t get 10 pilot users for the beta.
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We want to help you thrive with the digital age meta business skills.
If for some reason you feel that the course was full of crap and you didn’t learn anything, we’ll refund your money 100% within 14 days of your refund request.
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Click the “Sign up “ button, follow the instructions to purchase the course and start learning when the course launches!
Satisfaction guarantee
We believe this course will help you in developing essential digital age meta business skills for the future. Our belief is so strong that we’ll give you 100% satisfaction guarantee: if for any reason you think the course wasn’t useful or you didn’t learn anything, you can get 100% of your money back within 14 days of your refund request.