Senior executives responsible for leading people and organizations through significant change, including:

• 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

• 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

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

Adam Waytz - Academic Director; Professor of Management & Organizations

Heather Barnes - Adjunct Lecturer in Leadership Development and Communications

Loran Nordgren - Professor of Management and Organizations

Nancy Qian - James J. O’Connor Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (Center); Co-Director, Global Poverty Research Lab

Nicole Stephens - Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Dashun Wang - Kellogg Chair of Technology; Professor of Management and Organizations; Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences; Director, Center for Science of Science and Innovation; Co-Director, Ryan Institute on Complexity; Director, Northwestern Innovation Institute