The Architecture of Change
Lead transformation that lasts — a focused, two-day executive workshop on how world-class companies execute change at scale, and what applies to your business.
Former senior executive at Datalogic, Dow, Novartis, Alcoa, Rio Tinto and Alstom.
Who should attend?
CEOs and Managing Directors
For leaders carrying personal accountability for the next phase of growth, restructuring, or strategic pivot.
Owners of Industrial and Supply-Chain-Heavy Businesses
For executives whose transformations cut across operations, talent, systems, and capital expenditure simultaneously.
Founders and Second-Generation Family Business Leaders
For anyone facing succession, professionalization, or the shift from founder-led to institution-led management.
Heads of Strategy, Operations and Transformation
For senior executives sponsoring or leading enterprise-wide change programmes — often with limited reference points to compare against.
Why attend?
What you leave with — a practical, applied understanding of how transformation actually works, distilled from thirty years at the top of five global industries.
Workshop agenda
Two intensive mornings · eight hours of structured content · four working exercises · one closing personal commitment.
The Architecture of Change
Why Standing Still Is the Riskiest Move
Six external forces. The most dangerous habit in business.
The 70% Problem
Why most transformations stall — and the patterns behind it.
The Datalogic Story
Five decades of reinvention, told from inside the boardroom.
Two Frameworks That Have Aged Well
Instruments you pick up, use, and put down.
Where People Quietly Resist
The single point where momentum dies. Spot it before anyone else.
From Strategy to Sustained Results
The 67% Trap
Why two-thirds of strategies are never executed.
Mobilize. Design. Implement. Sustain.
Build your four-phase roadmap, in real time.
The Hardest Change Most Owners Avoid
Succession: three paths, three sets of trade-offs.
What Makes Change Stick
Three reinforcement levers most leaders ignore.
Your Monday Morning
Your written commitment. The one you take with you.
Meet Carlo A. Aversa
Carlo A. Aversa
Dr. Ing. (Mech.) · University of Oxford · MIoD (London)
For more than thirty years, Carlo has led operations and transformation at some of the world's largest industrial organizations — across chemicals, pharmaceuticals, metals, packaging, and industrial technology. Today, as General Manager of MACOA GmbH (Switzerland), he advises growing companies on operational transformation, strategy, and international expansion. He teaches Operations Management at MBA level in Beijing and Lucerne, holds a MBA degree from University of Oxford, and works in five languages.
From global enterprise to your business. Carlo combines a working perspective on how transformation happens at scale with a practical, no-nonsense approach that helps executives apply the same disciplines in their own organizations — at any size.
Trusted by world-class operators
Roles spanning chemicals, pharmaceuticals, metals, industrial packaging, transportation infrastructure, and industrial technology.
The essentials
Courtyard by Marriott
Prishtina · City Center
- 5-min walk from city center
- Premium boardroom-style setting
- Secure on-site parking
- High-speed Wi-Fi throughout
9–10 June 2026
Tuesday & Wednesday
- 08:30 doors open with coffee
- 09:00 sharp start each day
- 12:15 close each day
- Two intensive mornings · 8 hours total
- All workshop materials
- Coffee breaks & refreshments
This workshop is facilitated by XPR Consulting, with the support of the Matching Skills to Jobs (MSJ) project, which is implemented by Swisscontact and financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Application form
Seats are limited to twenty-five, allocated on a first-confirmed basis. Submit your details below — our team will follow up within one working day to confirm your place and share payment instructions.
Questions? Email info@xpr-consulting.com