TEAM PROGRAMS

Muscle-building for our modern reality.

We train leaders to meet the moment and the mission. Adaptive teams know how to take on their mightiest ambitions, unexpected plot twists, and everything in between.

Let’s talk about how you can adapt. Contact us here.

We deliver change in 3 steps.

1

Launch

Diagnose the work and catalyze attention.

2

We start your team’s program with diagnostics and a kickoff interactive keynote that sets the context for the next 6 to 12 months.

Train

Choose your own development path.

3

Each month, we teach a new module in a hybrid of digital content, live facilitation, case application, and structured peer consultation.

Apply

Mobilize direct action.

We bring your team in person for a 2-day intensive workshop to directly apply their new skills to the business.

PARTICIPANT OUTCOMES

Our programs deliver routine results. Goodbye, status quo.

✔ CHANGE TOOLS AND STRATEGIES
The skills of Adaptive Leadership, internalized for immediate use.

✔ UPGRADED DIAGNOSTIC SKILLS
For the opportunities, needs, and choices in front of you and your team.

✔ DIRECT APPLICATION
Real-time action on current and pressing individual and shared business challenges.

✔ LEADERSHIP DISCERNMENT
On what work to carry forward, upgrade, and release.

✔ STAKEHOLDER STRATEGIES
Mobilize action between teams and lead across competing priorities.

✔ PRAGMATIC ACTION PLANS
Aligned strategies, roles, and benchmarks for the next acts of leadership.

✔ TEAM ALIGNMENT
Bring your people and initiatives into coordinated excellence.

✔ NEW WORKING NORMS
Shared practices and routines, driven by adaptive change.

✔ CRAFT & COMPETENCE
Inspiration and conviction that a new chapter is within reach.

BECAUSE THE FUTURE REQUIRES MORE THAN GOOD INTENTIONS.

THE EXPERIENCE

We build rigorous containers that blend content, practice, and peer engagement — all designed for immediate application.

The foundational skills, practices, and strategies of Adaptive Leadership — and more. Born at Harvard 40+ years ago, and modernized by Zander Grashow, co-author of Harvard Business School’s The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, for today’s workforce.

Participants will learn all the fundamentals of Adaptive Leadership, plus new and expanded lessons created directly from Zander’s 25+ years of experience in implementing Adaptive Leadership with organizations worldwide.
Our programs go beyond traditional leadership development. We move your people from novice to athlete in their change capacity and train them for direct application on your current business challenges.

Participants will directly and iteratively address their own leadership cases — and business challenges shared by the entire team. This is muscle-building for our modern reality.
Building the future can be fun. Our programs are creative, experiential, and sticky.
We live at the intersection of play and pragmatism. Your people will get a vibrant, one-of-a-kind learning and application program that engages the best of them.
Doing the calculus of change requires a teacher sometimes. Don’t worry. We got you.

“If you are looking to drive positive change in yourself, teams, organization or systems at large, Zander is an exceptional guide. He has a remarkable ability to distill years of hard-won lessons and insights across the vast arena of driving and motivating change into clear, compelling, and memorable techniques and systematic approaches. What is even more extraordinary is that he makes the whole process delightfully engaging and fun.”

Sukanya Soderland, SVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield

TRAINING MODULES

First — we equip your team with the key foundational skills of Adaptive Leadership.

Month 1:

GET ON THE BALCONY

Half the skill and practice of adaptive change is diagnosis. Learn how to step away from the action, gain perspective, and interpret the data in front of you. Getting on the balcony is crucial to understanding problems in a systemic context.
- Build skills in problem diagnosis and systems thinking
- Generate multiple interpretations of business challenges from various lenses
- Use the practice of “getting on the balcony” to develop wider and more sophisticated solution sets to business challenges

Month 2:

CURATE THE FUTURE

Adaptive change means being deliberate in designing the future. Evolve with intention by understanding what work to carry forward, grow into, and what to release. This curated focus helps us engage more effectively with resistance to change.
- Identify change work using the Keep, Start, and Stop model of adaptation
- Apply Keep, Start, Stop model to individual leadership, the organizational system, and other focal areas

Month 3:

MOBILIZE THE WORK

Not all changes are the same. Leading your people through transitions requires discernment between technical problems within status quo from adaptive challenges that require new learning.
- Diagnose and strategize the work of current business challenges using the Technical v. Adaptive framework
- Learn how Technical and Adaptive Challenges require different engagement and leadership strategies for your people

Then — you choose 3 or more real-time application modules from our portfolio.

Months 4-6+:

EVOLVE LEADERSHIP, POWER, & AUTHORITY

None of these three things are the same. Knowing the differences between leadership, power, and authority helps us understand how to better move people off of status quo.

DESIGN YOUR CHANGE AGENDA

Turn ideas into action by clarifying four things: the current reality, the context in which we are operating, the compelling future, and the work required of us and others.

FIND STEADINESS IN THE CRAZINESS

Change creates disequilibrium. When we know how to engage with the disequilibrium, we can move ourselves, our people, and our customers off of status quo while minimizing disfunction.

MOBILIZE YOUR STAKEHOLDERS

This is not your traditional stakeholder analysis. Adaptive stakeholder engagement enables you to lead across competing priorities, values, loyalties, and losses at risk.

RAPID RESPONSE TEAMING

Learn how to bring your people and initiatives into coordinated excellence. When we invest in our individual and collective change dexterity, we face complexity with craft and competence.

CREATE CULTURE CONTRIBUTORS

Your culture creates the conditions you work in. Teams who make new routines, rituals, and rewards can fast-track output, iteration, and engagement.

Need a faster intervention for your team? Check out our à la carte offerings here.

400+ MODULES

We’ll help you curate the right content to meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs. Our portfolio is built from 25+ years of expertise in implementing change. Click here to learn more about our modules.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

"They provided life-changing tools and frameworks to help us not only become better leaders and changemakers, but to help us become better partners, parents, friends and humans. Zander reminds us our attention is the greatest commodity and I've gained so much by focusing my attention on this work."

Tricia Bolender
Strategy Consultant & Executive Coach
"I learned how to arrive and build with grounding and purpose in the social justice arena, and with a distinct and in-context appreciation of where to invest to catalyze change. At a time when our battles are on constantly and unpredictably shifting planes, Zander gave me the tools and the faith to march forward, boldly and with an understanding of the value of where and how I was standing. Most of all, they saw me, and through their wise and incisive counsel, helped me to see myself."

Anurima Bhargava
Founder and Director, Anthem Of Us
"Against a sea of professional development, the substantive depth and heart of Zanderʼs material shines. His approach to Adaptive Change is exactly the lens I needed to reflect inward and lead outward. It is the rarest of gifts to be guided through a framework that provides such a “meta” approach to navigating evolution of self and system – while also delivering concrete, accessible, and intuitive tools that can be applied immediately."

Betsy Miller
Law Partner, Cohen Milstein
"Zander is a change artist. He mixes together simple tools and maps that help us explore complex human landscapes, fun visuals, great music, stories and play to create a unique learning experience. It has profoundly influenced my own work."

Johanne Lavoie
Partner, McKinsey & Company