Pioneers in Adaptive Leadership

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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Pioneers in Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Change Advisors (ACA) emerged from over 35 years of field-based learning at Harvard Kennedy School and around the world. We are the premier mission-based Adaptive Leadership consultants, 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.

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The World Bank
THe Rockefeller Foundation
The Aspen Institute
Sustainable Brands
National Academies
Microsoft
Harvard Medical School
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Featured Leadership Offerings

ACA accelerates meaningful change through adaptive leadership consultation, facilitation, convening, executive team alignment, coaching and leadership development.

Leadership Fellowships

ACA is the leading design and delivery partner for leadership fellowships worldwide.

Adaptive Leadership Certification

Profound adaptive change awaits those who seek to master Adaptive theory as leadership trainers, coaches or advisors.

Leadership Coaching

Our world class leadership coaching supports senior executives to accelerate strategic change initiatives.

Self-Guided Leadership Courses

ACA is the world’s first and largest provider of online Adaptive Leadership courses.

Leadership services

Facilitation & Leadership Team Retreats

Skillful adaptive facilitation of convenings, strategy sessions and retreats to ensure meaningful commitments and results.

Molly Alexander

Adaptive Leadership Workshops

Bring Adaptive Leadership to your team or organization with a standard or customized introductory workshop.

Our Leadership Programs

Introduction to Adaptive Leadership
Level 1
As the premier Adaptive Leadership offering outside of Harvard University, this workshop lays out basic concepts of Adaptive Leadership (TM).
Self-guided Leadership Course

Your Leadership Moment – Self Guided Course
Level 2
Developing a new kind of leadership starts with a deeper look at ourselves. We created this course with this in mind.
Leadership Challenge - Advanced Leadership Course

Leverage Your Leadership Moment
Level 3
This introductory course helps you to identify and make progress on a leadership challenge. You’ll apply the tools and techniques of Adaptive Leadership, a practical framework for leading consequential change that was developed at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Adaptive Leadership Train-the-Trainer
Level 4
Facilitators take part in a well-tested and refined onsite and offsite development process that includes a range of experiential, didactic and results-oriented activities.

What is Democratizing Leadership?

Democratizing leadership is the idea that anyone, anywhere can lead change — regardless of their history, identity or access to financial or political resources.

Our People

The ACA team is our greatest asset built on a culture of continuous growth and learning. Spanning the globe, our leadership advisors have spent years mastering the tools and techniques of leadership managment. 

Mari Haraldsson- Adaptive Change Leadership Advisor

Mari Haraldsson

Leadership Advisor
A Swedish Korean New Yorker with 15 years of facilitation experience on four continents, Mari brings deep empathy, systems thinking, and cultural acumen to her leadership development work.
Saima Irtiza - Adaptive Change Leadership Advisor

Saima Irtiza

Director, Adaptive Leadership Certification
With over 20 years of professional experience, Saima began her career in the financial sector, transitioned through entrepreneurship, and soon discovered her penchant for facilitation and coaching.
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Vimal Kumar

Affiliate, Chair, Democratizing Leadership Initiative
Vimal is the founder of Movement for Scavenger Community (MSC), an organization committed to the eradication of manual scavenging in India and bringing education and awareness to the existing scavenger community.
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Eric Martin

Founder and Author
Eric Martin is the author of the book Your Leadership Moment and is Managing Director at Adaptive Change Advisors (ACA).
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Patrick McGowan

Leadership Advisor, Health and Human Services
Patrick McGowan has spent his career as an inside change leader in several organizations, first in business then in healthcare.
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Nqobizitha Ndlovu

Managing Director
Nqo works at the intersection of sustainability, leadership and finance. His work with communities addresses socio-economic justice & environmental rights issues.
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Winnie Ouko

Leadership Advisor
Winnie is co-founder and a Director of Lattice Consulting Limited, a Kenyan corporate finance, project finance, and strategy advisory firm with a prestigious client base.
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Diane Rawlins

Leadership Advisor
MA, LMHC, founder and president of InsideOut Consulting, Diane partners with healthcare leaders and their teams to meet today’s unprecedented opportunities and challenges.
Trevor Rees

Trevor Rees

Regional Director
Trevor is a sustainability consultant working in collaboration with a diverse network of associates, colleagues and partners in the UK and internationally.
Molly Alexander - Adaptive Change Leadership Advisor

Molly Alexander

Director, Organizational Development; Leadership Advisor
Molly Alexander has demonstrated impact on organizational effectiveness by leveraging expertise in coaching, design and facilitation of experiential learning and systematic training approaches including adaptive leadership and systems change theory.
Greta Cowen - Adaptive Change Leadership Advisor

Greta Cowan

Leadership Coach
Greta is an ICF certified leadership coach who, for over twenty years, has worked around the globe with a wide variety of corporate and non-profit clients.

What our partners say

Eric and his ACA team offered an adaptive and trusted partnership during a unique time in Patagonia’s history. ACA understands our commitment to save our home planet as we foundationally move towards another 50 years of impact and business unusual.
Ryan Gellert
Ryan GellertCEO, Patagonia
ACA has been a thought partner for many years now. We appreciate the tremendous impact their work and guidance has had on our team, investees and Fellows who continue to utilize the learnings, practices and tools they have acquired.
Bavidra Mohan
Bavidra MohanLeadership Director - Acumen Academy
ACA has been an invaluable partner, particularly during the challenges the world has faced these past few years. They excel at engaging teams and organizations to find meaningful solutions to challenges that have no easy answers.
Jen Siler
Jen SilerVice President of Global Community Engagement - Sabin Vaccine Institute
We believe in partnering with organizations and individuals to build practical solutions to meaningful daily challenges. Adaptive Change Advisors has surfaced game-changing lessons that the leaders we support carry back to their organizations and communities.
Esther Morales
Esther MoralesExecutive Director - Clean Energy Leadership Initiative
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