Kellogg School of Management

Adaptability for Leaders

Kellogg School of Management

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About Programme

Today’s leaders face rapid advances in technology, shifting workforce expectations, geopolitical uncertainty and global disruption. For senior executives, adaptability presents a strategic advantage for their organizations. Rather than preparing for any one challenge, this three-day program develops adaptability as an enduring leadership capability, helping leaders prepare for whatever disruption comes next.

Through a behavioral science lens, participants examine adaptability at three interconnected levels: the self, the organization and the external environment. They explore how people respond to uncertainty, make decisions under pressure and adapt to global changes, developing a playbook and the confidence to respond when their organizations need to adjust quickly.

Participants leave this program with the confidence and frameworks needed for responding to the rapidly changing workplace, and the preparation for action when their organizations must adapt quickly.

Programme Content

Day 1: Personal adaptability and resilience (the person)

Learning vs. performance goals
Flexibility and growing with grit

Day 2: Leading adaptation in the advanced AI age (the organization)

Adapting to AI disruptions
Identify and tackle frictions that may hinder innovation

Day 3: Adaptability to geopolitics and global change (the world)

Navigating politically sensitive topics
Managing diversity and inclusion

Programme Audience

C-suite executives and senior business-unit leaders
People and organizational leaders
Technology, AI and digital transformation leaders
Strategy, risk, crisis management and sustainability leaders
Nonprofit leaders

Programme Benefits

Build the psychological skills to improve personal adaptability and to improve your capability to learn and lead change
Create more resilient organizations to lead through technological and strategic changes, and respond intentionally to geopolitical and societal shifts
Navigate political and economic uncertainty with greater confidence
Diagnose sources of resistance to change and reduce frictions that prevent people and organizations from adapting
Assess how AI and other technology disruptions are changing work

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