Who is this for?
- Senior leaders from private, public and nonprofit sectors who need to collaborate with key stakeholders in order to effect productive responses to change
- Past participants of The Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership who wish to further develop their expertise in this area
Benefits for you
- Develop new collaborative structures capable of responding effectively to specific issues
- Identify shared interests with stakeholders and produce consensual, win-win responses to address them
- Evaluate core challenges and open up options for tackling them
- Use cohort feedback and insights to improve the quality of your decisions
- Foster a collaborative culture and sustain communities of ongoing support
- Exploit the advantages of adaptive collaboration to lead organizations in rapidly changing contexts
Program content
- Review of the adaptive leadership framework and its mechanisms for building collaboration
- Identifying adaptive work: gaps between adaptive challenges and personal values, thinking critically about challenges from multiple perspectives
- Leading without authority: empowering others to take ownership, overcoming barriers that hinder collaboration, developing strategies for effective collaboration
- Building strong relationships: engaging stakeholders to define problems and solutions, generating a sense of legitimacy and support, coming to solutions through principled negotiation
- Shaping organizational change: anticipating future challenges and opportunities, creating effective collaborative response strategies, mobilizing the full resources of your organization to tackle change
Special features
You will explore innovative ways to form professional alliances, collaborate on organizational challenges and build strong and lasting solutions.
Program leader

Adel Gamar
Faculty
Adel is an Adjunct faculty member at the UBC Sauder School of Business and CEO of a boutique firm specializing in adaptive leadership, strategy and change management. He is driven to forge effective collaborations among business, government and non-profit sectors while creating lasting solutions. In addition to advising senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies and public sector agencies worldwide, he has taught adaptive leadership and negotiation at Harvard and served as Education Specialist at UNESCO. He also co-facilitated the Think Tank on Global Education: Empowering Global Citizens.
Upcoming sessions
For financial assistance opportunities, please refer to Financial Assistance, Scholarships and Team Rates .

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