Virtual Executive Briefing & Open House

The Organizations That Will Thrive in 2026 are Building Change Capability Right Now

Organizations with strong change capability hit their objectives 88% of the time. Those without, just 13%. That seven-fold difference compounds every quarter
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January 20th | 11:00-11:45 am ET via Zoom

While you were navigating 2025's challenges, others have been building change capacity—the invisible advantage that determines who thrives in 2026 and who scrambles to catch up.

Last year, most leaders spent 2025 firefighting failed AI rollouts, messy leadership transitions, and stalled strategies. Now they're starting 2026 already behind. Don’t let that be your story in January 2027.
The gap is not strategy. It's your organization’s change capacity.

This Executive Briefing and Open House is for leaders who understand that Q1 decisions determine Q4 results.

Here's What's Shaping 2026

AI Rollouts

88% of companies deployed AI in 2025, but 94% are stuck in pilots, while a few early movers who solved for change disruption are already seeing productivity gains.

The Middle Manager Crisis

Your middle managers—your implementation engine—are burning out or being cut, creating execution gaps that will undermine your Q2 and Q3 targets.

Lack of Alignment

Only 9% of employees feel aligned with leadership priorities, which means your strategic initiatives are being executed by teams striving in different directions.

Lack of Trust

100% of CEOs will have an AI strategy in 2026, but only 6% of employees trust it will benefit them—that's built-in resistance undermining ROI before you even deploy.

Executive Turnover

Nonprofit CEO turnover hit record highs in 2025, yet only 27% of organizations have succession plans, and most boards aren't ready to govern through additional changes coming

Every week you wait to build change capacity is a week of execution capability you don't get back. In December 2026, some executive teams will be celebrating wins and engaged teams. Others will be in strategy sessions trying to understand why well-designed plans didn't deliver despite significant investment.

The difference? Decisions made in Q1. Don't let this be the session you wish you'd attended.

AGENDA

Virtual Executive Briefing and Open House | January 20th | 11:00-11:45 am ET via Zoom

If you need help now: This is your no-stakes way to see if CSR the right partner before committing.
If you don't need help yet: This is when smart executives find trusted resources—before the crisis hits, not when you're managing one.

Learn the invisible change capacity gaps undermining your 2026 initiatives right now.

Get first access to our exclusive 2025 research on the middle management collapse and nonprofit merger pitfalls.

Learn how to build change infrastructure that delivers 68%-300% ROI on AI adoption, leadership transitions, and strategic shifts.

See a live BoardCQ™ demo—our change readiness assessment for nonprofit boards.

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Avoid unnecessary costs, get your middle managers functioning at their best (to keep things off your plate), realize the ROI on your AI and other change initiatives, and achieve your 2026 goals.

About CSR

100+ Years of Collective Insight Into What Works

We are the leading experts changing the way organizations manage change. We've spent decades helping nonprofits, foundations, membership organizations, celebrated corporate leaders in sustainability and best places to work, and innovative municipal agencies navigate change and build capacity.

When large organizations and legacy institutions become more innovative, equitable, sustainable, inclusive, healthier, and overall better places to work, the systems they operate in also change, and so does our world.

Our vision is a world where organizations, and the people within them, evolve with ease to achieve increasing levels of innovation, sustainability, equity, inclusion and growth.