LEADING THROUGH COMPLEXITY
Navigating Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Rapid Change Through Theatre
Navigate complexity through theatre improvisation mastering Cynefin domains, adaptive leadership, and emergence—building antifragile teams, rapid problem-solving, and resilient strategies every organization needs in chaotic times.
What This Programme Is
Leading Through Complexity develops capacity to navigate BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible) environments through Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework, Ronald Heifetz's adaptive leadership, Margaret Wheatley's living systems principles, and complex problem-solving methodologies. This program builds leaders who can distinguish simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic domains; match their response to the domain they're in; work with emergence rather than imposing control; and solve complex problems systematically. Theatre provides ideal training because improvisation requires real-time problem-solving without complete information.
Who This Is For
Leaders facing unprecedented complexity and discontinuous change
Anyone navigating VUCA/BANI environments requiring new approaches
Strategic leaders where incremental change is insufficient
Change leaders whose organizations must adapt fundamentally
Those working with wicked problems requireing collaborative, iterative approaches
Format
Highly experiential using improvisation at the edge of chaos, long-form improvisation revealing emergence, Forum Theatre testing interventions, ensemble self-organization, and systematic problem-solving practice. 80% embodied practice, 20% conceptual framing.
What You'll Develop
Core Capabilities:
Cynefin framework: distinguishing simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, disordered domains
Domain-appropriate responses: best practices, expert analysis, probe-sense-respond, rapid action
Technical vs. adaptive distinction and appropriate leadership
Probe-sense-respond methodology for complex domain
Building antifragility: systems that gain from disorder
Complex problem-solving: Kepner-Tregoe, Ackoff, de Bono, Dörner, Weick frameworks
Key Competencies:
Domain recognition and matching response accordingly
Comfort with uncertainty and ambiguity through improvisation
Safe-to-fail experiments and rapid learning cycles
Emergence and self-organization capacity
Wicked problems: collaborative, iterative approaches
Systematic problem-solving across situation, problem, decision, potential problem analysis
Lateral thinking and creative problem-solving
