The document introduces Whole-System TransformationTM (WST), a new organizational change process brought to the Middle East by Scholar Consultants. WST aims to facilitate faster and more effective change through involving all levels of an organization. It is based on offsite retreats involving hundreds or thousands of employees to facilitate strategic decision making and mindset shifts. The document provides an overview of WST and highlights case studies that have led to increased engagement, profitability, and business results for organizations that have used this approach.

1. The New Frontier in
Organisational Change
Introducing Whole-System
Transformation™
Whole-System Transformation™ (WST) is a new Change and
Business Transformation Process in the Middle East, brought to you
exclusively by Scholar Consultants.
WST™ works for any organisation regardless of size, within any
culture, and for any challenge.
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“We have messages for the
CEO but only if we’re asked
high-valued questions and only
if we can answer them safely
and openly.”
Why Organisational Change
Management needs to Change in the
Middle East. Faster than Ever.
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We’d like to share with you some hot
news. The days of CEOs and Board of
Directors cascading decisions and
messages to business units, teams and
employees are coming to an end.
In the UAE and elsewhere in the Middle East,
business has been about the vision of a few
leaders at the top and this tradition largely
continues today. The image of one leader and
many followers still endures in the hearts and minds
of the people in the region.
But what would you predict if the ideas of a
privileged few at the top were not entirely
sustainable for the environment, the market, or for
the new customer experience you’re building?
You’d have competitors that will take your place,
customers who will disconnect from your brand
and a significant loss in your best talent.
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Our message is simple. Most top-down messages
end up lost and unlived. These times call for
transformational processes that are faster, more
cost-effective, and result in deeper paradigm shifts
to enable organisations to truly capture what they
deserve. And that means facilitating strategic
decisions by involving all levels that are affected.
In the UAE’s latest quest to be amongst the most
innovative nations on earth within 7 years, His
Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum says, “The competitiveness race
demands a constant flow of new ideas, as well as
innovative leadership using different methods and
tools to direct change.” (Arabian Business)
Scholar Consultants would like to take you on one
such journey. A new frontier in managing
organisational change has already emerged in
other parts of the world and we’d like to bring it
home to the UAE. Do we have you so far?

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“Whole-System
Transformation™ starts by
transforming the top team. Their
transformative experience
paves the way for transforming
the next levels down to all
members in the system.”
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A new frontier for change in the Middle
East, Whole-System Transformation™,
challenges traditional Change
Management standards by doing away
with incremental changes that are far too
slow to capture real opportunities.
Whole-System Transformation (WST) is based on
Kathleen Dannemiller’s Whole-Scale Change™
philosophy (Dannemiller Tyson Associates, 2000). It
can be summed up is “an adaptable and custom
tailored wisdom-creating learning experience that
often results in a mindset paradigm shift.”
How exactly is this achieved? Through the
facilitation of several hundred, sometimes
thousand participants working and interacting
together! But this is no run-of-the-mill team-building
event or corporate conference. In a WST
experience Scholar Consultants will:
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Identify who the client is and establish the
desired change and business results
Create synergy with a change team from the
client who designs a scanning tool with us
Work within the client system for approx. 15
days on a confidential data-collection mission
Design a 2.5 day offsite retreat for 20 to 1000
people and beyond, with a Design Team
comprising of members from the client system
Facilitate an inspiring WST offsite experience
Implement actions for 2 months post-offsite
Huge leaps in profitability and business results
have been documented due to WST™
breakthroughs with many of our clients
around the world.
It is the impact on mindset that is most crucial.
Resistance breaks down. Individual
commitment to the organization increases
naturally. Self-worth of employees improves
leading to heightened engagement. Culture
is transformed to such an extent where it is
nearly impossible for the organization to go
back to its previous state.
We can’t wait to facilitate organizations in the UAE
who are ready for the next wave in innovative
change. Here we go.

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The 8 Essentials
and Benefits of
Whole-System
Transformation™
1. Internal Change Agent (ICA):
Develop Internal Change Agent to
be positioned to facilitate Change
2. Executive Team Transformation: The
top team goes through a
transformative team process first
3. Design Team: Representatives of the
system and the ICA design a 2.5 day
transformational offsite summit
4. Critical Mass Transformation: The
core system experiences the 2.5 day
offsite just like the Executive team
5. Stakeholder Engagement: The offsite
will produce energy that creates
ripple effects of engagement
6. Multifaceted Communication: The
offsite leads to enhanced
transparency, inclusiveness, trust
7. Transformation Office: A group of
change champions responsible for
Transformation in the system
8. Monitoring Big Results: Documenting
the impact of transformational shifts
on organisational effectiveness
Reduces dependence on
external consultants
Top team is solidified and
unified to commit to change
Change occurs as people
support what they co-create
Every member gets their voice
heard and affects change
Employee engagement levels
soar significantly
Trust increases and
communication barriers break
Organisational competency of
‘Agility’ is sustained
Incremental change is replaced
by big leaps in business results

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Some of Our Best Case Studies with Results and Global
Success Stories of Organisations using Whole-System
Transformation™. Coming soon to the Middle East.
Achievement of
savings targets while
maintaining services and
supporting growth and
business transformation.
Improved track
record on project delivery.
Improved
communication up, down,
and across.
Improved
collaboration across
organisational borders.
USD 100 million was
realized as a result of a USD
6 million intervention spend.
Customer index went
up from 77% to 84%.
New Transformation
Department created.
“People of all levels went out to
speak about what was done. It
had an impact on the way that
we did our work. Instantly we
started to see change in the
attitudes of our employees and
how that affected customers.
The results told us we were
unleashing magic.” Allstate Agent
Voted the most loved
financial services brand in
South Africa.
Pilot group of 2100 in
three groups of 700 raised
the profitability of their
bank’s division by 69%.
The 34 other divisions
raised their profit only 2%-
7%. The differentiating
factor was WST™.
“I have just seen the most
powerful transformational
experience ever in our country.”
Minister South African Govt.
Stock price increased
within 4 months of WST™.
Produced more
tonnage of cement in less
time and resources than
any other plant in the world.
President of Indonesia
awarded Semen Gresik 4th
largest revenue for nation.
Stock price
prior to WST™
Watch ABSA's WST Journey
Watch Airbus' Testimonial

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Roland Sullivan, WST Specialist
Considered to be one of the original 100
change agents of the world, Roland
learned directly from the founders of the
Change Management profession in 1962.
He has led transformation efforts for over
1000 organizations in 40 countries. He
coined the term Whole-System
Transformation™ in 1974. He has also
taught Change Management around the
world at 20 universities.
Roland’s most popular book is ‘Practicing
OD: A Guide for Leading Change’ (Wiley)
which will be in its 4th edition in 2015.
He has received numerous awards for
achieving transformative results and for
his research on Change competencies.
Mubeena Mohammed, CEO
After consulting in the UAE since 2003,
Mubeena rebranded her Company to
meet global demands for her expertise.
As CEO of Scholar Consultants, she aims
to create a world-class and flawless
consulting experience for every client.
Mubeena has facilitated Organization
Change and HR Systems to Abu Dhabi
Government sectors, plus companies
such as Nakheel, Kraft, Philips, MBC, Al
Ghurair Group and others since 2003.
With dual degrees in Psychology and
Philosophy, and Masters in Organizational
Psychology, she applies the Social
Sciences in her work and is known in the
region for developing best practices to
create exemplary workplace cultures.
Whole-System
Transformation™
Experts in the UAE
Mubeena Mohammed and Roland Sullivan met at an
industry conference in Dubai in 2004. It was a meeting of
the minds and their common passion for bringing deep
and sustainable Change to enterprises in the UAE led them
to collaborate on the ‘new frontier’ that is Whole-System
Transformation™ for the Middle East.
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Free Resources from ScholarConsultants.com
Free Webinar Introducing New Frontiers in Organisation Change
This 40-minute recording covers some hot topics on Change:
Why most Change Management initiatives fail
Key differences between Change Management and Organization
Development
Introducing Whole-System Transformation™
Effects of culture on the success of organizational change
Competencies required to be an effective Change Agent
Watch the webinar recording on our YouTube channel: New Frontiers Webinar
Free E-Book on Our Organisation Development Philosophy
Our Organisation Development Philosophy is an e-book that links the areas of
Organisational Development (OD), Human Resource Management Systems and the
Individual Employee. This e-book explains our framework of the services we provide.
Email M@ScholarConsultants.com with subject “OD E-Book” for your free copy.
Twitter.com/HRConsultantUAE YouTube.com/User/ScholarConsultants
Facebook.com/ScholarConsultants Google.com/+ScholarConsultants
Want a Paradigm Shift in Your Organisation?
Book a Free Change Blueprint Session!
We are offering a free 30-minute online session with our WST™
experts to co-create a change process with you we call
“Blueprint” to address an organisational challenge, no matter
what your industry, culture, size, or goal.
Email M@ScholarConsultants.com with subject “Free session”
to set up your Change Blueprint session with us.
Did You Know? Most
of our clients’ Change
Agents get promoted
after working with us.
Let us help you be an
Internal Change
Agent (ICA) today!

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Scholar Consultants, a Division of Scholar Worldwide FZE, offers strategic
consulting services in Organisation Change, HR Strategy and Individual
Motivation. Our mission is to build authentic connections between Management
and their Human Capital.
“The role of a Scholar
Consultant is to facilitate, not
to dictate"
“All the answers lie in the
system. Scholar Consultants
brings them to the surface by
creating a safe environment”
“The smartest person in the
room is the room. The focus
needs to be on the whole”