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.
Train-the-Trainer
“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
Saying Yes: The Courage to Let Go and Receive
Leadership is often framed as knowing what to do, charting the path and mobilizing others to follow. But the deepest leadership moments rarely begin with certainty. They begin with saying yes – an act that is at once brave, humbling and transformative. Saying yes is not just consent or ‘going along to get along’. It is a signal that you
Innovation in a Time of Volatility
The traditional drivers of development and innovation are shifting. That is not necessarily a bad thing. For decades, a daunting adaptive challenge facing emerging market institutions and leaders was donor dependency and donor-driven agendas, a well-known power dynamic in the philanthropic world more broadly. While the influence of actors like USAID is still relevant, it is no longer controlling. In
Leadership… It’s Personal
You may think that your story doesn’t matter, that people aren’t interested, that you shouldn’t be talking about yourself. But when you do public work, you have a responsibility to offer a public account of who you are, why you do what you do, and where you hope to lead. – Marshall Ganz; Harvard Kennedy School “No one wants to hear
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
Train-the-Trainer & Certification
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
Train-the-Trainer & Certification
Level 4
Adaptive Leadership™ Coaching Certification
Level 5
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