Pioneers in Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive Leadership Workshop

Introduction to
Adaptive Leadership

Level 1

Introduction to adaptive leadership

Past Attendees

Foundations for Leading in Complexity

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, particularly during times of transition, uncertainty and immense possibility. Leading any form of change initiative is complex. You need to work across organizational boundaries, build partnerships, deal with conflict and overcome differences in values, visions and desired outcomes.  Plus you need to have a thick skin!

  • Experienced leader, practitioner or facilitator working with a purpose-led agenda in or across organizations
  • Currently or expect to be leading an organization or initiative that is likely to challenge prevailing and entrenched values and beliefs
  • Keen to strengthen your effectiveness and personal resilience as a leader
Is there a tough and seemingly intractable problem you face in your work or civic life?

Bring a specific project, initiative or leadership challenge to the workshop. Learn how to get unstuck by applying the tools and techniques of Adaptive Leadership, which is a critical skillset for anyone looking to drive systemic change in an increasingly complex world.

Are you ready to lead change?

Practice Adaptive Leadership skills in real-time

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 Foster productive group dynamics within teams and organizations, identify patterns and roles within a system, leverage tension and navigate conflict in a group.

Connect with other accomplished leadership professionals

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Learn from professionals familiar with the Adaptive Leadership framework and join a global community of practitioners.

Develop the capacity to think adaptively

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Gain coaching skills to encourage people to disrupt patterns and create change. Get real-time feedback from peers and ACA master practitioners.

What we’ll explore

The Introduction to Adaptive Leadership workshop draws on years of sharp-end experience in the field. The workshop builds your professional and personal capacity to: lead in complex, political, ambiguous environments; manage the personal risks and pressures of leadership; build vibrant alliances for cross-border collaboration; and design strategies for generating change.

  • Build capacity for leveraging authority and power within and across diverse groups
  • Heighten awareness to the intricate dynamics of human systems
  • Deepen insight into issues of trust, political sensitivities, resistance and tolerance for change, conflict and distress
  • Strengthen ability to lead adaptively in multi-stakeholder environments and change initiatives
  • Create a confidential space for reflection, exploration and advice on personal risk-taking and learning
  • Understand the root cause of a stubborn and recurring challenge in your organization, team, or community
  • Partner with those who are in position of authority or power
  • Leverage your own power for change
  • Design an experiment that strengthens your ability to create lasting change
  • Learn to lead adaptively in environments with trust issues, political sensitivities, resistance, conflict, and distress

Our leadership impact

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’s coaching of our senior team invigorated our culture of collaboration. ACA is more than a consultant. They’re catalysts for positive change.
Rikin Gandhi
Rikin GandhiCEO, Digital Green
…a real game changer about what it means to lead as a Black leader. This wouldn’t have happened, or would’ve taken much longer, without ACA’s leadership workshop.
Lisa Simms Booth
Lisa Simms BoothExecutive Director, Smith Center for Healing and Arts
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
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

You're Part of Something Bigger

By joining this workshop, you’re also a member of Gather, our online course community. Gather members hail from around the world and from different backgrounds – all dedicated in their own unique way to the exercise of leadership.

Next Program

  • Schedule (Eastern Time – New York City)
    October 2, 2025, Thursday: Noon – 4pm
    October 3, 2025, Friday: 8am – Noon
    October 6, 2025, Monday: Noon – 4pm
    October 7, 2025, Tuesday: 8am – Noon
  • Format: Live four-hour sessions via Zoom
 

Participants receive two coaching calls, an official Adaptive Leadership (TM) certificate, materials and access to the Adaptive Leadership learning platform.

Workshop Fees

Standard Market Rates:

$2,500: Corporate and large-sized NPO
$1,500: Government and small-sized NPO

Scholarships available.

A $500 deposit is required to hold your seat. This deposit is non-refundable and helps us to minimize last-minute cancellations.

Book Your Seat

Seats for this workshop are limited
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