Developmental Leadership Institute

A community of practice for living systems-centered leaders building core capabilities for an AI-integrated world.

Evolving our capacity to effectively navigate uncertainty

Today, leaders are wrestling with some profoundly challenging questions:

How do we navigate the process of integrating emerging technology without losing what makes us unique and gives our work meaning?
How do we need to think differently about evolving roles?
What capabilities should we be focused on developing ourselves and within our teams to remain relevant and effective?

With unprecedented levels of uncertainty in front of us, we can no longer rely on the “experts” to provide us with roadmaps and blueprints for success.

Our attention shifts to developing the core capabilities that enable us to effectively engage in a process of exploring, realizing, and actualizing potential in a transforming environment.

Our Guiding Framework: 6 Developmental Capabilities

What is required of us to effectively navigate the complex and uncertain challenges we now face?

How can we shift out of a reactive state, into one that is more proactive and purposeful?

How does this relate to the unique value-adding roles we are being called to as human beings in an emerging AI-integrated world?

Our work focuses on exploring these and other challenging questions through a set of specific lenses. One primary lens is the 6 Developmental Capabilities framework.

This and other frameworks we us at DLI are informed by John Bennett’s work on Systematics, as well as a number of mentors and colleagues of ours in this specific lineage.

These instruments are not presented as solutions, but invitations to see and think in new ways.

As we do, our capacity to realize and actualize new potential evolves, enabling us to create more unique value for our stakeholders as leaders, teams, organizations, communities, and industries.

Begin the journey (no cost).

Join our growing community at no cost and receive a series of short, weekly onboarding emails designed to help you:

Make more sense of the specific, rapidly changing context around your work and roles.
Gain a deeper alignment between what matters most to you and what you are being uniquely called to in your place.
Learn how you can use the 6 Core Capabilities Framework to catalyze more developmental personal reflections and conversations with your team.

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