Mobilizing for organizational change
Former title: Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Every day, leaders face enormous pressure to guide their organizations in complex and rapidly changing environments. The need for innovative solutions has produced extensive changes in the art of leadership. As with any creative discipline, mastery comes with practice.
Next Level Leadership is for participants driven to understand and apply a transformative framework. Learn the art of adapting effectively to disruption, and build skills for activating the potential in people to exercise leadership. Practice collaborative methods for designing innovative solutions that deliver on strategic goals and ensure organizational impact.
Next Level Leadership
Who should attend
This program is for senior managers, executives and directors who wish to evolve a context-specific leadership strategy for maximizing personal and organizational productivity. Examples Include:
- Anyone who has reporting lines: CEO, VP, Executives, Managers, Directors, etc.
- Senior managers in private, public and non-profit sectors
- Corporate executives, including C-level officers, vice presidents and directors
- Senior public officials at the national, provincial and local levels
- Non-profit, NGO and grassroots community-building leaders
The impact
Embarking on an Executive Education program focused on organizational leadership can be a transformative experience for individuals seeking to enhance their professional impact. Participants stand to gain a multitude of benefits:
Mobilize transformative change:
- Develop your agility to navigate change and disruption
- Implement sustainable realignment
Disrupt the status quo:
- Question assumptions that might be holding you back
- Think critically and creatively to shape new realities
- Keep stress levels within a productive range
Infuse adaptive work with meaning:
- Link work to shared values and individual purpose
- Inspire and energize with innovative leadership
Engage and energize others:
- Instill inspiration, hope, and a sense of shared ownership for work
- Set the pace for learning
- Exercise leadership experimentally and tactfully
Create collaborative processes:
- Put the work, not people, at the centre of the problem
- Don’t go it alone: forge partnerships for mutual gain
- Mobilize collective wisdom
How you will learn
Working in groups, you will develop a case outlining a current professional leadership challenge. These peer case consultations will serve as part of the leadership development learnings, while helping you make progress on a specific organizational challenge you are facing.
- Challenge assumptions that may be inhibiting your personal or organizational adaptive capacity
- Manage the inevitable stressors and dangers of leadership
- Address and navigate tough organizational challenges
- Promote open and honest conversations
- Empower stakeholders to take ownership of organizational challenges
- Develop strategies for active learning amid competing agendas and changing contexts
- Foster hope in teams and align with organizational aspirations
Contact us for registration support
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UBC Sauder Executive Education,
Adel Gamar
Adel Gamar, an Adjunct Professor at UBC Sauder School of Business and CEO of a prominent leadership and management consultancy, stands at the forefront of adaptive leadership and organizational management. With an innovative leadership coaching approach honed at Harvard University, he brings a wealth of experience to guide senior leaders through the intricacies of rapid change.
Throughout his career, Adel has advised senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations and governments worldwide. He served as Education Specialist at UNESCO and Policy Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he not only taught adaptive leadership but also co-facilitated the Think Tank on Global Education: Empowering Global Citizens. His impact extends to advising the Co-Chair of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing in 2015.
Adel has provided executive coaching services to numerous organizations including Arc’teryx, Canadian Western Bank, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, Office of the Auditor General of BC, WorkSafeBC and the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. Additionally, he serves on boards including Douglas College and Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce.
Driven to inspire and mentor young leaders, he co-founded The Gamar Foundation—a non-profit that aims to inspire, empower and connect young people to make a difference for the greater public good.
Adel holds an MPA from Harvard, an MEd from the University of Leicester and a BEd from the University of Calgary.
[Executive Education Programs] Next Level Leadership
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Why UBC Sauder Executive Education?
Elevate your career and organization with UBC Sauder. Recognized as a global leader in executive education by the Financial Times, our programs deliver a transformative learning experience, resulting in tangible impact.
Elevate your career and organization with UBC Sauder. Recognized as a global leader in executive education by the Financial Times, our programs deliver a transformative learning experience, resulting in tangible impact.
