"Those who exercise leadership know that in reality, leadership is a dance with danger. You put your life, your career, and often your family at risk when you exercise leadership. You jeopardize everything. To be effective in exercising leadership, you challenge the status quo. You disrupt people's loyalties, and comfort. Leadership efforts are often met with resistance, undermining behaviors, and personal attacks. It is often easier to resist putting yourself in conflict by taking the easy road, one with no disruptions, playing it safe. There is no safe way to be an effective leader. Leadership is inherently risky. There are, however, methods leaders use to survive and continue to thrive, take risks and inspire others to achieve extraordinary results." -Ron Heifetz, 2002

Adaptive Leadership™ is a set of strategies and practices that help organizations break through gridlocks, accomplish deep change and develop the adaptability to thrive in complex, competitive and challenging environments.

Primary Objectives:

• Identify the sources and forms of danger in leadership
• Clarify the difference between authority and leadership
• Provide diagnostic, strategic and tactical responses to leadership dangers
• Offer strategies for staying healthy in your exercise of leadership
• Give insights into our own leadership through self examination and the feedback of peers
• Unique challenges to entrepreneurial leadership in the social sector
• Learn from examples of bad leadership
• Gain insights from public or nonprofit leaders