Handbook

Adaptive leadership is a practical framework to assist individuals and organizations confront and diagnose difficult situations and flourish in turbulent and challenging circumstances. It meets the needs to respond dynamically, creatively and respectfully to intractable problems, as well as emerging crises and ambiguous system and worldview changes. This course offers an additional tool to the mainstream leadership repertoire that relies on a heroic, visionary individual at the top of an organization to chart a course and marshal people along a path towards achievement of pre-defined solutions. 

The course meets the contemporary needs of practitioners from across Australian society who confront massive systemic challenges, shifting geopolitical forces and social movements, and significant domestic public sector reform agendas, all requiring new ways of collaborating and practising leadership as a collective endeavour. The course will equip students with practical tools to contribute to the advancement of Australia’s interests both domestically and in the Indo-Pacific region.