Introduction to
Adaptive Leadership
The Most Rigorous Adaptive Leadership Training Outside Harvard Kennedy School
Adaptive Leadership is the leading framework for mobilizing people to tackle complex challenges that resist easy answers. Developed at Harvard Kennedy School over four decades, it has shaped how governments, corporations, nonprofits and civic institutions approach leadership and change.
For more than 20 years, this workshop has been the premier entry point into that tradition outside of Harvard.
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
This workshop is designed for leaders and practitioners already operating at the edge of what conventional leadership approaches can handle.
- An experienced leader navigating change that cuts against prevailing values, beliefs, or organizational structures
- A consultant, coach, or facilitator working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- A manager or team lead facing persistent challenges that technical fixes haven’t solved
- A civic or social change leader trying to move people across deep differences
Past Attendees
What You Bring.
What You Leave With.
Bring a Real Challenge
A specific project, initiative, or leadership dilemma you want to make progress on
Insight & Breakthrough
Live practice, feedback, and peer coaching that shifts how you see…everything.
Courage & Community
Coaching, official certificate, and a global network of to expand what your possibilities
What We’ll Explore
This workshop builds capacity that transfers immediately. You’ll leave able to:
- Distinguish the challenges that technical expertise can solve from the ones that require deeper change – and how to make that change
- Get on the balcony: read the dynamics of any room, group,or system
- Navigate resistance to your most important change efforts
- Hold conflict and tension as creative forces
- Manage the personal risks of leadership
- Strengthen your leadership in multi-stakeholder environments
- Leverage your own power for change
- Design an experiment that strengthens your ability to create lasting change
Participants receive two coaching calls, an official Adaptive Leadership™ certificate, materials and access to the Adaptive Leadership learning platform.
Our leadership impact
Workshop Fees
$2,500: Corporate and large nonprofits
$1,500: Government, small nonprofits, and independent practitioners
Scholarships available.
A $500 deposit secures your seat; non-refundable.
You're Part of Something Bigger
By joining this workshop, you’re also a member of Gather, our global learning community.
Next Program
- Schedule June 2026 (U.S. Eastern Time)
June 11, Thursday Noon – 4pm
June 12, Friday: 8am – Noon
June 15, Monday: Noon – 4pm
June 16, Tuesday: 8am – Noon - Format: Live four-hour sessions via Zoom