Disruptive Leadership 4.0 Masterclass Series

Explore best-in-class leadership practices and tools to drive organizational leadership excellence and transform your organization into a high-performance team, using action-based learning and case studies.

Discover Prof. Sattar Bawany's master facilitator profile and his approach to transforming organizations through leadership development and best practices. Learn how he links school leadership and management to organizational change.

Adopt the scope approach to leadership development, challenge your mental model, share best practices, and craft a smart leadership exit plan to maximize learning opportunities.

Lead in a disruptive, complex, and ambiguous environment by developing essential skills to guide your team toward survival and success, while learning from leading companies’ best practices and contemporary issues.

Trace the origin of VUCA from 1990s U.S. college programs after the Cold War, highlighting how the global order and leadership challenges prompted its conception.

Define VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—and examine its impact on modern organizations. Discover how leaders anticipate change, manage cross-cultural complexity, and guide teams through uncharted times.

Recognize the current reality as the ultimate source of competitive advantage by leveraging current and future leaders to drive change in a VUCA world.

Develop liberal thinking, grounded optimism, and agility to meet leadership challenges in a VUCA world, and bridge internal and external stakeholders to help your organization prosper.

Develop yourself and your team to achieve results in a disruptive, car-centric business environment by building trust, communicating clearly, and applying agile, critical, and innovative thinking.

Learn the L.E.A.P. competencies of effective leaders, including mental and emotional intelligence, resilience, agility, and the ability to challenge mental models to re-examine practices and lead through uncertainty.

Equip leaders in the disruptive leadership 4.0 masterclass series to navigate a vuca world by embracing change, aligning classroom learning with leadership skills, and leveraging Harvard Business Review insights.

Develop cognitive readiness competencies by integrating mental and emotional states to navigate challenges, and apply practical best practices, approaches, and tips to drive organizational success.

Explore trends in leadership development that emphasize critical thinking, vision, customer responsiveness, and strategy execution, helping leaders create possibilities and prepare for global business challenges.

Explore cognitive readiness as a leadership competency that blends mental, emotional, and personal atmospheres to respond to marketplace change. Learn how organizations foster sustainability in leadership amid complex shifts.

Explore the seven competencies of cognitive readiness, including seeing the bigger picture, staying calm under pressure, adaptability, reflective value reassessment, and inspiring communication to turn vision into action.

Develop critical thinking with the red model, a Watson Glazer inspired assessment tool, to recognize assumptions and evaluate arguments. Draw conclusions from reliable evidence and challenge bias with emotional intelligence.

Develop emotional and social intelligence by cultivating self-awareness, recognizing triggers, and practicing self-control, while building rapport with teams and stakeholders and applying best practices.

Explore the five elements of emotional and social intelligence—self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills—and learn how to apply them to enhance leadership, resilience, and organizational change.

Explore how amygdala hijack undermines self-control and emotional intelligence, identify triggers, and learn mindful strategies to manage emotions for effective leadership and coaching.

Explore the results-based leadership (RBL) framework for self-leadership, team leadership, and customer-focused performance, backed by Harvard Business School research, to focus on achieving organizational results in a disruptive environment.

Identify and address leadership derailers by developing vision with action, embracing cross-cultural communication, strategic alliances, team leadership, rapid learning, flexible styles, and a customer-centric and employee-centric approach.

Explore leadership purpose, defining what makes people follow you, and align beliefs, values, and practices to deliver authentic leadership and organizational impact.

Explore leadership through the Crimson Tide case study, contrasting styles under high stress aboard a nuclear submarine and examining how internal and external factors shape decision making and resilience.

Explore a framework for winning the war for talent by building a leadership pipeline, drawing on case studies from General Electric and Johnson & Johnson to prepare future leaders.

Master the six-step succession planning framework to identify future leaders, develop high potentials, and ensure readiness for mission-critical and emergency roles, sustaining organizational leadership.

Identify high potentials who consistently deliver superior performance, reflect company culture, and transfer skills across roles; learn why developing leaders is essential for a sustainable leadership pipeline.

Accelerate the development of high potentials through transition coaching and executive mentoring. Build a future-oriented leadership pipeline for disruptive leadership, grounded in emotional intelligence and cross-cultural communication.

Develop a repertoire of effective leadership styles centered on coaching, using a proven model highlighted by Daniel Waldman to engage, inspire, and motivate your team toward organizational results.

Explore how managerial coaching drives engagement and self-awareness, builds a trust-based culture, and delivers results by developing teams through question-led leadership and continuous improvement.

Explore the G.R.O.W. model for coaching conversations, guiding teams through goals, reality, options, and will, paired with creative brainstorming, barrier analysis, and performance management discussions to drive execution.

Develop key managerial coaching skills by mastering active listening, suspending judgment, asking insightful questions, summarizing conversations, and applying emotional intelligence to inspire teams and measure success.

Develop a coaching plan by delivering specific, future-focused feedback in one-on-one conversations, defining behavioral expectations, co-creating actionable steps, and following up to ensure accountability and growth.

Explore how to inspire a multigenerational workforce by understanding millennials and Gen Z, and adapt leadership, communication, and workplace policies to engage them.

Build trust with an employee-centric operating plan to boost engagement and discretionary effort, driving productivity and exceptional customer experiences. Engagement is the emotional and intellectual connection beyond job satisfaction.

Identify Gallup's groups of employee engagement—engaged, not engaged, and actively disengaged—and how psychological connection, loyalty, and discretionary effort shape productivity and climate.

Managers must treat each employee as an individual, foster engagement through coaching, regular dialogue, feedback, and recognition, and align leadership practices with organizational goals even in recession.

Inspire your future workforce with flexible leadership, clear communication, listening, and genuine care. Prepare Gen Y through engaging programs, internships, and governance-ready leadership.

Explore managing a multigenerational workforce by understanding traditionalists, baby boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and the leverage generation, then engage, resolve conflicts, and prepare future leaders.

Explore Generation Y traits in the workplace, including their desire for information, empowerment, rapid feedback, individualized treatment, and rationale behind decisions, with coaching and recognition to boost engagement.

Lead with flexible, tech-enabled strategies to engage the Gen Z workforce, who live on digital media, seek regular feedback, empowerment, balance, and social impact.

Apply the score framework to build high-performance teams, emphasizing purpose, strategy, communication, trust, and rapid leadership responses to a changing, disruptive environment.

Define your leadership purpose and values to motivate followership and achieve authentic leadership that drives organizational results and shapes how your team experiences you.

Explore five tips for creating outperforming teams: recruit the best people with complementary skills, empower them, ensure clear roles and boundaries, and cultivate a common purpose for high performance.

Develop high performing teams through the score framework by clarifying values, roles, and communication, embracing trust, collaboration, and flexible leadership to solve problems creatively.

Case study shows applying the S.C.O.R.E. framework to form a project team, establish a charter, clarify roles, and enable open, vulnerable communication for rapid problem solving.

Apply the AGREE model to resolve cross-functional conflicts by framing the problem, establishing scope framework and team charter, and evaluating options with force analysis to execute a high-performing team.

Develop your blueprint for leadership success by implementing an actionable plan, applying concepts from this program, and using provided resources to lead in a highly disruptive environment.

Develop a smart personal leadership action plan by choosing one measurable goal, practicing self-control, gathering peer feedback, and tracking progress to become a more effective leader.