Vertical Leadership Development

Expanding mindsets, not just skill sets

Adaptive Practices

For leaders navigating complexity and change

Our intensive Adaptive Leadership Program is a 2-day emersion designed to build adaptive capacity so leaders can reflect clearly, collaborate more effectively and lead through complexity.

This leadership development program will enable participants to:

• Diagnose complex challenges accurately
• Identify and shift limiting patterns
• Work on real-time culture experiments that create real change

This Program is designed for senior level leaders and influencers, who are experienced in leading through complexity, and wanting to shift into a higher level of performance.

The adaptive practice program aims to enhance understanding of technical and adaptive practices, prompting leaders to reflect on and adjust their leadership repertoire. It encourages different collaborative approaches and thinking, to make organisations more adaptable. This program is designed to be part of a broader leadership evolution journey, demanding commitment, practice, and courageous action.

Program Details

• Focus: increasing organisations' ability to adapt
• Pre-work: reading material prior to the workshop
• Workshops: 2 full days face to face
• Coaching groups and field work: facilitated and documented practice sessions leading your real time adaptive challenge

By the end of this Program, leaders will be able to:

1. 1.Better diagnose the context they’re in to apply the most appropriate solution
2. 2.See business challenges through a clearer lens
3. 3.Pinpoint their threshold and challenge their immunity to change
4. 4.Move into action by designing a culture experiment to alleviate their challenge
5. 5.Feel more aligned to their purpose and values

Day 1

• Adaptive practice key concepts
• The elegance of the status quo
• Immunity to Change
• Cambridge Case Consultations

Day 2

• Designing your real time adaptative challenge plan
• Vertical Development Theory
• Getting on the balcony of you

Coaching groups and field work

• Facilitated and documented practice sessions
• Leading your real time adaptive challenge

Who we are

We’re a purpose-driven team of coaches and facilitators with a common goal of evolving human potential. We are known for our deeply developmental approach, creating trusted spaces for insight and honest conversations, that lead to individual and organisational growth. Our team show up in integrity with our values as we walk alongside our clients, as strategic partners, thought leaders and co-facilitators.

Our work is grounded in advanced leadership practice and sustainable culture transformation. We blend evidence-based methods with practical, human-centred design to support evolution into new levels of performance.

Together, our team brings a powerful blend of executive leadership, organisational psychology, cultural transformation and systemic coaching experience. With backgrounds spanning CEO, board leadership, organisational development, psychology, facilitation and large-scale transformation, we draw on decades of partnerships across government, corporate, social impact and private sectors.

Program Facilitators

Carl Harman

Senior Consultant

James Koch

CEO

Steph Tramontin

Head of Consulting

Get to know our wider team here.