Adaptive Change Advisors
Where leadership
finds its meaning
We put adaptive leadership tools that drive change into the hands of people who seek meaningful outcomes.
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Masterclasses
Leading Though Uncertainty
Led by our founder, Eric Martin, this 90-minute masterclass offers a space to pause, reflect, and learn alongside fellow leaders who are also navigating complexity, ambiguity and change.
Led by our Managing Director and renowned leadership expert Nqobizitha Ndlovu, this immersive masterclass will equip you with the strategies, mindsets, and practical tools needed to transform your approach to leadership.
Are you confident that you are igniting all three decision-making centers that spark your audience into action? Are you confident in your ability to engender trust and authentic connection? Does your communication compel us to follow your lead?
Leadership Programmes
Introduction to Adaptive Leadership
This workshop is the premier Adaptive Leadership offering outside of Harvard University, covering all of the key practices of Adaptive Leadership (TM) with experiential depth. Developed at Harvard, Adaptive Leadership is a framework for leading change.
Facilitator Development Program
“Facilitation” often extends beyond simple training facilitation to holding—and even leading—competing stakeholders through a process of creative disequilibrium to undergo a deep experiential learning process.
Coaching Certification
Adaptive Leadership Coaching invites a shared call to lead. One that connects coach and client in a purpose-driven, mutual exploration. This approach doesn’t start with tools or tactics. It begins with us.
Leadership insights
When Reconciliation Feels Like Pressure
There is a scene in the movie Invictus that I often use in our leadership workshops to illustrate a number of Adaptive Leadership practices and techniques. Nelson Mandela addresses South Africa’s rugby committee, asking them — unsuccessfully at first — to keep the Springbok emblem as the nation’s team symbol rather than discard it as a relic of apartheid. The
Leading Through Uncertainty: Lessons from MLK Jr.
You’re at a pivotal point. You can feel it. The leadership you were taught—the binaries of strong versus weak, decisive versus indecisive, having answers versus admitting doubt—no longer feels true. If you’re questioning what leadership actually means, you’re not lost. You’re ready. We live in an age that will not sit still. The ground constantly shifts beneath us; economies wobble,
Part 6 | In Community
A few years ago I woke up unable to speak. I held so much tension in my jaws that it physically hurt to open my mouth. As I learned to heal with my jaws I discovered the wisdom of my body in that moment. Unknowingly, I had muzzled myself – I had kept so much unspoken, unexpressed under the guise
Pioneers in Adaptive Leadership
Adaptive Change Advisors (ACA) emerged from over 40 years of field-based learning at Harvard Kennedy School and around the world. We are the premier mission-based Adaptive Leadership advisory and training organization, strengthening leadership to tackle critical adaptive challenges.
ACA’s approach draws on decades of experience enabling collaboration among businesses, governments, civil society, philanthropists and communities. Together, we craft innovative, adaptive responses in times of transition, uncertainty and boundless possibility.
Our work has accelerated meaningful change for hundreds of thousands of people worldwide through facilitation, convening, executive team alignment, and leadership development and training.
Leadership Offerings
ACA accelerates meaningful change through adaptive leadership consultation, facilitation, convening, executive team alignment, coaching and leadership development.
ACA is the leading design and delivery partner for leadership fellowships worldwide.
Profound adaptive change awaits those who seek to master Adaptive theory as leadership trainers, coaches or advisors.
Our world class leadership coaching supports senior executives to accelerate strategic change initiatives.
ACA is the world’s first and largest provider of online Adaptive Leadership courses.
Skillful adaptive facilitation of convenings, strategy sessions and retreats to ensure meaningful commitments and results.
Bring Adaptive Leadership to your team or organization with a standard or customized introductory workshop.
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Leadership Programs Now Enrolling
Introduction to Adaptive Leadership
Level 1
Discover Your Leadership Moment
Level 2
Leverage Your Leadership Moment
Level 3
Adaptive Leadership Facilitator Development Program
Level 4
Adaptive Leadership™ Coaching Certification
Level 5
Beyond Leadership
Level 6
Introduction to Adaptive Leadership
Level 1
Discover Your Leadership Moment
Level 2
Leverage Your Leadership Moment
Level 3
Adaptive Leadership Facilitator Development Program
Level 4
Adaptive Leadership™ Coaching Certification
Level 5
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