Overview
Navigate change and lead innovation in Canada's complex and regulated aviation environment. In Aviation Change Management, you'll strengthen your ability to guide organizational shifts, balancing innovation with the safety and operational stability that define the industry.
To support this learning, the course is delivered online over four weeks and combines independent study with a mandatory two-hour virtual group session every week. You'll work through real change-related challenges with peers and learn from each other's operational contexts.
You'll examine aviation-specific change-management frameworks, focusing on how regulatory compliance, safety culture, and team engagement intersect when organizations evolve. Through case studies, simulations, and practical planning tools, you'll develop strategies for implementing technological upgrades, regulatory updates, and workforce-renewal initiatives. You'll also assess how aviation leaders anticipate and respond to major change drivers — including demographic shifts, digital modernization, and changing regulatory expectations — while maintaining operational excellence.
Reflection and guided feedback help you evaluate your readiness to lead change, build inclusive coalitions, and maintain engagement through periods of uncertainty. You'll revisit your propelling question through this lens, applying new frameworks to strengthen your emerging solution. With AI CoPilot support as a thinking partner, you'll integrate these insights into your Leadership Engine Blueprint, expanding your Aviation Leadership Toolkit.
By course end, you'll understand how to lead complex change in aviation environments that require both innovation and reliability. You'll have practical tools to manage stakeholder relationships, support workforce transitions, and ensure change efforts strengthen safety, diversity, and operational performance.
This course is ideal if you:
- work in aviation and are responsible for leading or supporting organizational change
- supervise teams affected by regulatory, technological, or workforce transformation
- aim to strengthen communication and planning skills in dynamic, safety-critical environments
- collaborate with multiple stakeholder groups and want to foster inclusive engagement
- seek strategies for balancing innovation with aviation’s operational and safety requirements.
There are no eligibility requirements for this course. Any education or work experience in aviation will further enrich your professional development journey.
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- apply change management frameworks designed for aviation contexts to lead complex transformation initiatives
- lead regulatory and technological change while maintaining operational safety and engaging multicultural teams in workforce transition efforts
- manage stakeholder relationships through inclusive strategies that foster coalition support for sustainable aviation transformation.
To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.
If you're certified by a professional association, this course may qualify for continuing professional development (CPD) hours to help maintain your certifications/designations. It may also qualify for Blue Seal Certificate training hours. Please check with your association to confirm eligibility.
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Registration closes seven days before the start date for on-campus, online scheduled, and blended courses, and one day before the start date for online self-paced courses.
After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to self-print a proof of completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Costs
Textbook and reading list
Included in the purchase of this course, you'll receive access to online course content in Brightspace (D2L).
Technology
To be successful in this course, you’ll need:
- Access to your own computer or laptop with standard hardware/software requirements
- Functional webcam and microphone
- Internet access
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants, including the Canada Alberta Productivity Grant.
Applicable certificates
This course applies to the following certificate programs:
- Certification type
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Certificate of Completion
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