From Knowing to Growing: Building Adaptive Leaders For a Complex World

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27 May 2025, Tuesday • 10AM-11AM SGT/GMT +8
Duration: 1 Hour

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Adaptive Leader in Complex World
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Overview

Complexity is outpacing leadership development. Are your leaders keeping up?

The speed of change in today’s world—economic volatility, technological disruption, and evolving workforce dynamics—is exposing a critical leadership gap. The leaders who thrived in the past may not be equipped to lead in this volatile, unpredictable environment. While organisations invest heavily in leadership training, most programs focus on horizontal development—teaching new skills and competencies.

However, as highlighted in industry reports like the DDI Global Leadership Forecast 2O25, organisations and their people face increasing complexity and volatility in today’s work environment. There is a growing awareness of the urgent need for adaptive leadership capabilities within the next five years. Yet, a significant development gap persists. Many organisations struggle to address this gap, as individuals at all levels require future-focused skills to meet the demands of their roles.

The problem? These skills alone are not enough to navigate complexity and lead transformation. In a world of constant change, it’s not just about what leaders know; it’s about how they think and adapt.

What’s missing? Vertical development. Conventional leadership development focuses on expanding what leaders know, but adaptive leadership development focuses on how leaders think, evolve, and respond to uncertainty. Leaders must move beyond expertise-driven leadership to embrace sensemaking, self-awareness, and transformational thinking—key elements of vertical development and the action logics framework.

In this 60-minute interactive session, we’ll explore how organisational leaders, talent development decision-makers, and strategic HR leaders can integrate both horizontal and vertical development to build leaders who adapt with agility, shape change rather than react to it, and harness challenges as opportunities.

Session Benefits:

This webinar will help you:

  • Understand why complexity is outpacing traditional leadership development
  • Discover the vertical development approach and how it shifts leadership capacity
  • Explore action logics insights to identify and grow transformative leaders
  • Learn how to develop leaders who thrive in uncertainty and lead innovation
  • Develop actionable strategies to integrate adaptive leadership into your organisation
  • Gain access to resources in vertical development and adaptive leadership growth

What You Will Learn:

  • The Case for Adaptive Leadership – Why traditional leadership programs fall short in today’s complex world
  • Beyond Skills: Horizontal vs. Vertical Development – How to develop leaders who don’t just know more but think differently and operate at higher levels of complexity
  • Action Logics & Leadership Growth – Understanding the different stages of leadership mindsets and how to accelerate vertical development
  • Practical Strategies to Build Adaptive Leaders – Actionable steps to embed awareness, mindset shifts, sensemaking and mental complexity into leadership development
  • Scaling Leadership Transformation – How to champion a culture of adaptability in your organisation

Bonus: Free Resources + Case studies (reading materials, whitepapers, simple checklist) 

Jessica Choo

Founder and Chief Strategist
ILS

About the Speaker

Jessica Choo is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS). With more than 30 years’ consulting and operational experience, Jessica has extensive working knowledge in the areas of strategic leadership development, performance consulting, organisation development, team effectiveness, and transformation success.

Jessica has extensive experience in assisting companies implement culture and people development solutions. Her behavioural science approach, coupled with her passion in people and result-orientedness, has consistently helped her clients achieved impressive results in organisation-wide people performance and culture change initiatives. A highly-established organisation development consultant, she has addressed over 15,000 executives and worked on more than 200 client projects across 20 countries. During the strategic assignments involving ministers and prominent CEOs in Singapore, Jessica consistently demonstrated her capability to focus the group and achieve creative progress and buy-in through her effective facilitation.

In recent years, Jessica has incorporated Growth Mindset interventions into her work as a powerful way to catalyse performance and growth. She is also an active member of the Chicago Booth Executive Education network in Behavioural Economics.

Who Should Attend

  • Organisational Leaders Driving Transformation
  • Talent Development Decision-Makers
  • Strategic Human Resources Leaders
  • Learning & Development Heads

Select “Invitation by ILS” on the online registration form. Register here.

Select “Invitation by ILS” on the online registration form.
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Jessica

Jessica Choo

Founder and Chief Strategist of ILS

Jessica Choo is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS). With more than 30 years’ consulting and operational experience, Jessica has extensive working knowledge in the areas of performance consulting, talent development, organisation development, change management, strategic leadership, team development, and business management.

Jessica has extensive experience in assisting companies implement culture and people development solutions. Her behavioural science approach, coupled with her passion in people and result-orientedness, has consistently helped her clients achieved impressive results in organisation-wide people performance and culture change initiatives. A highly-established organisation development consultant, she has addressed over 15,000 executives and worked on more than 200 client projects across 20 countries. During the strategic assignments involving ministers and prominent CEOs in Singapore, Jessica consistently demonstrated her capability to focus the group and achieve creative progress and buy-in through her effective facilitation.

In recent years, Jessica has incorporated Growth Mindset interventions into her consulting as a powerful way to initiate and sustain high performance. She is also an active member of the Chicago Booth Executive Education network in Behavioural Economics.

Carl

Carl Sanders-Edwards

CEO and Founder of Adeption

Carl Sanders-Edwards is the CEO & Founder of Adeption – a platform that is improving and democratising leadership development for all through new, evidence-based, design-led approach to learning. Carl has over 20 years’ experience working with global organisations and start-ups, helping people and workplaces grow to be better.

Carl believes that leadership is no longer a role that one shoots for, but a required trait that everyone in the future must have. His mission is to make effective Leadership Development available to everyone. He brings a unique perspective to this challenge with experience from manufacturing, software development, leadership and innovation.

Carl holds an MBA from Babson College, Boston, as a Fulbright Scholar, graduating top of his class. He has a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) from Massey University, in New Zealand, and received the 2011 Massey University Distinguished Young Alumni.

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Jamie Mclver

General Manager of Adeption

Jamie Mclver is a leader, facilitator and coach with vast international business experience and a passion for growing transformational leaders. He has lived and worked across Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa leading transformations, shaping change and shifting cultures.

With deep expertise in transformation, Jamie partners with leaders to uncover their purpose and long-term goals and takes creative approaches to unlock them. He also works with leadership teams and organisations to shape the leadership culture and transformation journeys that bring about sustainable success.

Jamie holds an MBA from Mount Eliza Business School and is a certified coach, member of the International Coaching Federation, certified practitioner for Leadership Circle Profile and a qualified Six-Sigma Black Belt.

Nick

Nick Petrie

Leadership Researcher and Speaker

Nick Petrie is a researcher and key-note speaker specialising in vertical leadership development, culture creation and resilience under pressure. He is also a performance coach for some of the world’s top companies helping them prepare for the future by creating solutions that help leaders be more: adaptable, resilient and strategic.

For the past decade, Nick has dedicated his time to working and residing in various regions, including the U.S., Asia, Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and the Middle East. He is sought after for helping organisations build a healthy, high-performance culture (that doesn’t burn people out) and leadership development for senior executives. He spent 10 years at the Centre for Creative Leadership working with senior executives and HR leaders from around the world.