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Is your organisation agile, and leadership......

ADAPTIVE.......

RESPONSIVE..

EFFECTIVE.....

BALANCED....

...and ENABLING?

...because the old hierarchical leadership approaches no longer work so well in a VUCA world.....

WHAT WE DO FOR CLIENTS

We offer cutting edge, international award winning customised services to executives and organisations around the world working in increasingly VUCA times (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous). We turn complexity into simple actions and get measureable results. We deliver this from organisational wide initiatives, to team/group development to one-on-one coaching. Our clients report getting better and more results for less leadership effort.

Leadership Development
Leadership Consulting
Innovation Enablement
Strategy and Change

WHO AND WHERE WE ARE

Complex Adaptive Leadership (CAL) Limited (UK) is a global network of talented associates. We range from experienced accomplished practitioners, to expert consultants, from world leading academics to effective facilitators, with a common view that leadership needs to change to meet the future. We use unique research based proprietary IP. Our associates deliver a range of approaches via a variety of interventions to suit the client culture and budget. The CAL way offers a powerful and pragmatic approach, relevant to all national cultures, and has been praised globally.

OUR CUTTING-EDGE IDEAS

Our published and highly acclaimed research addresses a more complex world where traditional approaches to leadership seem to be less effective. We draw on the lessons that can be learnt from modern western complexity science, chaos mathematics and ancient Chinese wisdom. Leadership needs to go upwards, sideways and outwards in an organisation, and not just downwards. CAL offers a unique, new, effective approach which embraces traditional leadership models and then extends them in a practical way for a modern age.

What others say about us:

(references available upon request)

“I have seen many leadership models in my time. The CAL (Complex Adaptive Leadership) approach delivered here in Beijing is the best western model that suits the Chinese culture and psyche. The feedback from the participants has been very positive”

From a programme in Beijing, ChinaL&D Executive

“CAL helped me as a leader to focus on what matters, setting in place the framework for the team to work, and identified techniques to use in interpersonal / leadership situations. I would highly recommend it.”

From an intervention in Munich, GermanyExecutive

“I am now regularly leaving complex tasks to my team, and let them solve it themselves. I am also now exposing them to greater extent to management, which is a great learning for the guys and it enables me to focus on productive things.”

From an event in Helsinki, FinlandExecutive 2 months after the course

“Outstanding! Fun, interesting, insightful, incredible!!”

From MNC top leadership programme SingaporeSenior Executive

“CAL guided me to overcome the general assumptions we carry during our leadership which need to be overcome and adapted as per the situations. Complexity science is a true way of understanding multiple transitions and make better decisions in complex situations.”

From an intervention in New Delhi, IndiaSenior manager 3 months after the course:

“In the past I participated in several “Leadership” workshops. That one was the most important, useful and “down to the Earth”.

From a workshop in Athens, GreeceExecutive

“Excellent – a really useful seminar. All the participants were actively involved. Good at helping to set priorities and it was really interesting”

From a seminar in Moscow, RussiaSenior Execeutive

“Great, fresh approach to leadership. Positive message of empowerment with useful strategies and tactics to improve organisational performance.”

From a programme in Paris, FranceExecutive

“I found it fascinating to the point that I couldn’t wait for the next module to keep going. The text book by Obolensky was excellent – and definitely a keeper…”

From an MBA prorgamme in Florida, USA

“Super……extremely good – managed to keep us awake on the last day of the module!”

From contribution to internal programme in UruguaySenior Executive

” Excellent learning! Lots of valuable management working tools and mind opening experiences and radical ideas to change the mindset”

From a YPO/WPO event in Jakarta, IndonesiaCompany CEO

“What I liked most was learning that for more complex systems there is no necessity to have big direct leadership.”

From an Open Programme in Riga, LatviaCEO

“Highly valuable for any leaders to ensure the right focus on tasks that really create an impact (and not waste time on others). Highly recommended!”

From a worskhop in Shanghai, ChinaSenior manager

“The CAL approach challenged all the traditional learning about leadership”

From a workshop in Brirmingham, UKSenior Manager

“One of the most inspiring business programs I have ever had. Hands-on experience mixed with deep theoretical knowledge, but applied with a well balanced mix of tutorials, discussions, and theoretical and practical exercises”.

From a programme in SingaporeSenior Executive

“Lessons are highly practical and backed up by theory as well. I think I learned more than any coursed I’ve ever had.”

From a programme in Dusseldorf, GermanyMiddle manager

“It was really an enlightening experience – definitely exceeded my expectations.”

From a programme in Texas, USASenior Executive

“Having attended many such courses over quite some number of years, I would (even a year on) consider CAL to be at the very top for engagement & content”

From a workshop in London, UKCountry MD MNC

“Very useful and dynamic, with good illustrative examples. Great at setting a pace and involving all the participants”

From a workshop in Tomsk, SiberiaMiddle manager

“The CAL material is better than Covey’s”

From a workshop in DubaiSenior Country Manager

“Complex Adaptive Leadership (CAL), has delivered powerful leadership development to hundreds of our senior managers in our MNC around the world. The programmes are innovative, engaging and ensure specific actions which help move our organisation forward. This leading edge approach is changing the management DNA of our company.”

Head of Talent and Leadership DevelopmentLarge Multi-National Company

About Us

CAL is unique and links complexity science to adaptive leadership to give a new and dynamic view of leadership which gets better results for less effort. Complexity has been identified as a key issue for leaders today to understand and manage – and yet most are ill-equipped to deal with it.

Check out our Team

Leadership Development
This can range from a half day introductory look at complexity/chaos theory and leadership, to days/module(s) to plug into a current leadership programme, to a comprehensive module-based culture change intervention to support internal organisational and leadership development process. Clients range from large blue-chip Multi- National Companies, to business schools/universities, to organisations which do not have their own in-house leadership development teams. We are a company that has a global, powerfully new and comprehensive approach to leadership which can be delivered locally around the world.
Leadership Consulting
This level of consulting is aimed at engaging whole organisations in taking a lead, rather than waiting to be led. Activities range from mass engagement events to whole organisational change processes to ensure the organisation moves towards a dynamic of continual improvement and initiative at the lowest levels. The experience is a roller coaster, full of suprises where the followers learn to lead and the leaders learn to support and follow.
Strategy and Change
The traditional days of the top team formulating long term strategies, cascading them through the organisation, and then managing the resultant change, are numbered. For many organisations the context is now too dynamic, and uncertainty is too high. At CAL we believe that traditional approaches to strategy formulation and change management can be complemented by more dynamic approaches including strategic intuition, strategy through simple rules and dilemma resolution. The way an organisation manages and leads itself, and being flexible and adaptive in the approach, is increasingly important.
Innovation with accountability
The ability to adapt may help an organisation to survive, but innovation will ensure it sustains and thrives. For innovation to thrive a difficult balance needs to be struck between allowing freedom for mistakes on the one hand and the need to manage and regulate on the other. CAL enables leadership to put in place a culture where that balance can be struck and where innovation with accountability can thrive.

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