The Adaptive Leadership Development Institute
The Adaptive Leadership Development Institute is an eight-week professional training designed for leaders in organizational, educational, ministry, and community contexts who want to move beyond reactive management and develop the competency to lead effectively.
This course is built on the theoretical foundations established by Ronald A. Heifetz and colleagues (2009), expanded by Baker (2017), and applied to real-world leadership contexts in the doctoral research of Dr. Hannah McBean (2026).
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Week 1-Foundations of Adaptive Leadership
We begin where all good leadership inquiry begins: with honest diagnosis. Ronald A. Heifetz (2009) argued that one of the most common and costly failures in leadership is misidentifying the type of challenge one faces. Leaders apply technical solutions — expertise, authority, established procedures — to problems that are, at their root, adaptive. The result is activity without progress, effort without transformation.
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Week 2-Getting on the Balcony
The first adaptive leadership behavior is simultaneously the most counterintuitive for action-oriented leaders: stepping back. Heifetz et al. (2009) describe this as 'getting on the balcony' — a metaphor in which the leader temporarily leaves the dance floor of activity to observe patterns from a higher vantage point. Leaders will learn how to apply this to ministry and organizational contexts, noting that many leaders only realize a decline has occurred when it reaches crisis level.
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