Introduction to
Adaptive Leadership

June 2024 Workshop

Level 1 Workshop

As the premier Adaptive Leadership offering outside of Harvard University, this workshop lays out basic concepts of Adaptive Leadership (TM). Adaptive Leadership is a practical framework developed at Harvard 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.

Organizations who have attended

Are you ready to lead change?

Practice Adaptive Leadership skills
in real-time

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

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

Develop the capacity to think adaptively

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

Drawing 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 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.

ACA’s coaching of our senior team invigorated our culture of collaboration. ACA is more than a consultant. They’re catalysts for positive change.

…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.

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.

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.

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.

something bigger

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

Dates

The workshop takes place over four intensive 1/2 days . After the workshop, participants become members of the Gather community of leadership practitioners worldwide, and receive 12 months of ongoing communication and support.

(Eastern Time – New York City)

June 20: Noon – 4:00pm
June 21: 8:00am – Noon
June 24: Noon – 4:00pm
June 25: 8:00am – Noon

Location: Virtual, synchronous and asynchronous via Zoom

Workshop fees

$500 deposit is required to hold your seat. This helps us to minimize last-minute cancellations. After completing the workshop, you can adjust the actual amount you pay (+ or -) after the program. No pressure and no judgement if you pay less than the market rate, or pay nothing at all.

Standard market rates:

– $2,500; Corporate and large-sized NPO

– $1,500; Government and small-sized NPO

Book Your Seat

Seats for this workshop are limited

Introduction to Adaptive Leadership