Executive Education · Human Centered Lab
Leading People
Human-centered leadership is the process of inspiring and mobilizing people to co-creatively tackle tough challenges and do things that matter. These sessions show leaders how to do that every day: build trust, set clear goals, give feedback that lands, lead teams where people speak up, and find the confidence to lead toward creative solutions when the answer isn’t obvious.
Sessions
6 sessions. Each has a slide deck you can open and review, plus a hands-on tool or activity.
Human-Centered Leadership: The Decisive Advantage
Why human-centered leadership wins, and how the Creative Alliances System puts it to work.
Slides · Technical or Adaptive? game
Operationalizing Human-Centered Leadership
Creative alliances in practice: the bonds, tasks and tools, and goals that make people want to follow.
Slides · Bonds Check and Co-Creation Planner
Human-Centered Performance Communication
Results-based performance management: SMARTEST goals, coaching all year and feedback that lands.
Slides · SMARTEST Goal Builder
High Performance Teams
What makes teams work: team stages, Project Aristotle, team models and team dynamics.
Slides · Team Dynamics Check
Psychological Safety
Why teams only learn as fast as people are willing to speak up, and how leaders build safety in four stages.
Slides · Team Safety Check
Leadership Fork in the Road
The defining moments that test leaders: negative and positive forks, antifragility and the failure resume.
Slides · Slide deck and discussion
Questions leaders ask
What is human-centered leadership?
Human-centered leadership is the process of inspiring and mobilizing people to co-creatively tackle tough challenges and do things that matter. It puts people, relationships and shared purpose at the center of how leaders get results.
Which session should a leadership team start with?
Start with Human-Centered Leadership: The Decisive Advantage for the big picture, then Operationalizing Human-Centered Leadership to put it into practice. Performance Communication, High Performance Teams and Psychological Safety go deeper on the day-to-day.
Who are these sessions for?
Leaders in the Aerospace and Defense MBA and the Strategic Leadership MBA, and teams and leaders in organizations we work with. Each session has a slide deck you can open and review, and most include a hands-on tool to use with your own team.