Leader, Team, and Organizational Learning and Development
- Systemic sensemaking for capacity building
- Leader, team, and organizational adaptive learning
- Organizational culture diagnosis, actionable assessment, change
- Adaptive leadership, leader mindsets and learning agility
- Complex adaptive systems, adaptive organizations, adaptive change
- Organizational and team dynamics, norms, communicative competence
- Flux leadership, crisis leadership, leading in VUCA contexts
- Design for organizational impact, decision making, problem solving
- Women’s leadership development (intersectional)
- Applied research for sustainable organizational culture change
Organizational Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)
- Systemic sensemaking for cultural and inclusive excellence
- Equity-focused leader, team, and organizational learning
- Culturally responsive leadership, policies, and organizations
- Unconscious bias and invisible logics in culture and decision-making
- DEIB as change management through boundary spanning processes
- Navigating workplace identity-based stress
- Belonging, psychological safety, and wellbeing in organizations
- Institutional storytelling for constructive dialogue in difficult conversations
- Moving from compliance culture to human capital cultivation
- healing-centered leadership, humanizing organizations
Applied Research, Design, and Methodology
- Design thinking and emergent design research
- Holistic impact evaluation/assessment/M&E
- Workplace research design, implementation, analysis
- Leader, systems, organizational, practitioner research
- Evidence-based learning and professional development
- Multimodal storytelling and data repositories (data sovereignty)
- Organizational storytelling and rapid-cycle inquiry
- Bridging Western and Indigenous epistemologies, designs, methodologies
- Participatory action research in organizations/communities
- Trauma-informed/healing-centered organizational/community research
International Development
- Case studies as development strategy (multimodal)
- Participatory/contextualized organizational and leadership development
- Customized replication for contextualization and adaptivity of scale-up
- Knowledge system integration, cross-sector coalition and capacity building
- Humanizing/assets-based leader and organizational development
- School- and community-based ethnographic and participatory research
- Research-practice partnerships and networks for sustainable impact
- Participatory and community-based school and systems reform
- Developing national research acumen and research hubs
- Corporate Social Responsibility/Microloan/Incubator impact assessment
Selected 2020-2024 Session Titles
- Mindsets and Skills for Adaptive Leaders and Organizations
- Design Thinking as Driver of Business Growth and Innovation
- Systemic Sense-making for Cultural and Inclusive Excellence
- Diffusion of Innovations: Boundary Spanning for Sustainable Change
- Communicative Competence for a Workscape in Flux
- Adaptive Learning for Agile Leadership, Teams, and Organizations
- Organizational Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging as Change Management
- Building Workplace Emotional and Cultural Intelligence
- Invisible Logics for Innovation Strategy and Change Management
- Relational Trust: Cultivating a Culture of Purpose and Accountability
- Systems of Knowing Integration as Portal to Knowledge Maximization
- Curiosity Turned the Cat into a Lion: Organizational Sensemaking for Growth
- The Hunger Games: Leader Courage vs. Institutional Isomorphism
- Exponentializing Team Capacity through Assets-based Skills Development
- Leaders as Solutionary Knowledge System Integrators: Skills for a Wider Remit
- Saying the Unsayable 2024 Edition: Navigating Difficult Conversations
- Beyond Binaries: Constructive Dialogue in Difficult Conversations
- Cross-National Coalition Building for Sustainable Systems Change
- Adaptive Leadership 2.0: The Equity Remit
- Navigating Identity-Based Stress for Workplace Performance
- Leveraging Storytelling for Team Learning and Belonging
- Corporate Social Responsibility 2.0: Sustainability-focused Innovation
- Women’s Leadership Development: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline
- Leaders as Night Lanterns: Flux Mindset for Adaptive Leaders and Teams
- Humanizing Work: Groundwork for a Gentler World
- Workplace Belonging as Antidote to Burnout