When we talk with organizational stakeholders this is what they tell us they need, not just in leaders but in contributors at every level...

• Capacity to deal with ambiguous, uncertain, and complex challenges.
• Awareness and ability to tap diversity in backgrounds and perspectives.
• Resilience and responsiveness to be effective no matter the stress and demands.

These are not skills or knowledge that can be learned in a classroom or webinar. They are capacities that come from building emotional, intellectual, and even physical and spiritual awareness and capabilities. 

Vertical Leadership Development (VLD), also known as Adult Stage Development or Adult Development Theory, and Ego Construct Development, provides a scaffolding for understanding and working with this profound process of capacity building.

And while VLD is not new, it is more relevant than ever before.

Vertical Leadership Development is about building capacities to see, understand, empathize, and respond in a greater variety of ways and in response to a range of situations.

• VLD enables leaders to expand their range of response.
• VLD grows organizational culture to allow for experimentation, psychological safety, and mindful action and interaction.
• VLD provides coaches with a map for going deep to address the mindsets that define, limit, and shape our client's experience and growth.

This series is compromised of 3 live webinars and 3 live discussion groups and has 4.5 CEUs pending ICF approval. In order to receive CEUs you will need to attend all of the webinars live.

Course materials will include interviews with and input from adult development luminaries Susann Cook-Greuter, Ed.D, Jennifer Garvey-Berger, Ph.D, Deb Helsing, Ph.D, Bob Kegan, PhD, Elaine Herdman Barker and Bill Torbert. As well as white papers, research, and tools for working with different mindset stages.

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