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Become a Certified Adaptive Leadership Facilitator.
Most organizations do not fail because they lack strategy. They fail because people get stuck under pressure, in conflict, in silos, and in uncertainty. Our certifications equip you to facilitate the diagnostics and group processes that help leaders and teams make progress on challenges that cannot be solved by expertise alone.
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Adaptive Leadership is built for complexity.

Our programs are grounded in the Adaptive Leadership tradition developed at Harvard and refined through decades of practice. These certifications give you tools you can deploy immediately inside organizations, with teams, and with leaders navigating real change.

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Adaptive Capacity Assessments (ACP + AC360)

When pressure spikes, restore effectiveness fast.

Stress changes behavior. People get reactive, meetings get guarded, and change stalls. This certification gives you a credible diagnostic and a debrief process that turns pressure into progress.
You will be certified to deliver: The Adaptive Capacity Profile (ACP) and Adaptive Capacity 360 (AC360), plus the debriefs and workshops that translate results into behavior change.
Best for: Coaches, facilitators, HR and OD leaders, consultants who want a repeatable assessment-based offer.
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Peer Case Consulting (PCC)
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Stop the spinning. Get teams unstuck on the real issue.
When the real problem is political, cross-functional, or hard to name, groups keep talking and nothing moves. PCC gives you a structured facilitation method that produces clarity, shared responsibility, and action.
You will be certified to deliver: Peer Case Consulting sessions using CLA's methodology to help teams make progress on complex, human-centered challenges.
Best for: Experienced facilitators and consultants who lead groups through conflict, complexity, and change.
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Adaptive Leadership Practitioner
Coming Soon:
Lead workshops that change how systems behave.
Organizations keep treating adaptive problems like technical ones. More plans, more meetings, more process. Behavior stays the same. This certification prepares you to facilitate Adaptive Leadership frameworks in a way that mobilizes responsibility and drives real change.
You will be certified to deliver: Adaptive Leadership workshops using CLA's frameworks and tools.
Best for: Coaches, consultants, change leaders, and facilitators who want to lead full Adaptive Leadership learning experiences.
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Not sure which one to choose?

  • If you want a proven diagnostic you can use repeatedly with leaders and teams, start with Adaptive Capacity.
  • If your work lives in the tough middle of stakeholders, silos, politics, and conflict, choose Peer Case Consulting.
  • If you want to facilitate full Adaptive Leadership workshops and deepen your core practice, become a Practitioner.
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When pressure spikes, restore effectiveness fast.

Adaptive Capacity Certification (ACP + AC360)

Become certified to administer CLA's Adaptive Capacity assessments and run debriefs and workshops that help people stay effective when the stakes are high.
The Visceral Problem You Will Solve
When organizations are under pressure, predictable patterns take over:
  • Leaders tighten control and unintentionally create fear or compliance
  • Teams stop telling the truth in meetings, then complain in side channel
  • People become reactive: blame, defensiveness, withdrawal, avoidance
  • Change fatigue turns into agreement on the surface and resistance underneath
What You Will Be Certified to Deliver
  • Adaptive Capacity Profile (ACP)
  • Adaptive Capacity 360 (AC360)
  • Workshops and training sessions using these assessments
What Changes for Your Clients
  • A shared language for stress responses
  • Clarity on how a team performs under strain
  • More productive conversations about change
  • A concrete development pathway for leaders
Duration
Four 1-hour trainings
Format
Virtual cohort
What Is Included
  • Certification badge
  • Facilitator Guide
  • Your own ACP and AC360 report
  • Exclusive access to CLA support
Ideal for: Coaches, facilitators, consultants, HR and OD leaders, and anyone leading through disruption.
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Stop the spinning. Get teams unstuck on the real issue.

Coming Soon: Peer Case Consulting Certification (PCC)

Get certified to facilitate a structured group process that helps teams make progress on complex, human-centered challenges, especially when the real issue is hard to name.
The Visceral Problem You Will Solve
This is what it looks like when a system is stuck:
  • Teams keep having meetings about the same issue and nothing changes
  • People argue strategy while the real barriers are trust, power, identity
  • Cross-functional work collapses into finger-pointing or avoidance
  • Leaders want alignment, but stakeholders quietly resist
What You Will Be Certified to Deliver
Peer Case Consulting sessions using CLA's codified methodology so teams can work on real adaptive challenges together, in real time.
What Changes for Your Clients
  • The team stops outsourcing the problem to leadership
  • Stakeholders who usually resist feel engaged in the work
  • Conversations become more honest and actionable
  • Teams move from insight to experimentation
Duration
Four 1-hour trainings
Format
Virtual cohort
What Is Included
  • Certification badge
  • Facilitator Guide (structure, prompts, guardrails)
  • Exclusive access to CLA support
Ideal for: Consultants and facilitators who routinely work with leadership teams, cross-functional groups, or organizations facing conflict, complexity, and change.
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Lead workshops that change how systems behave.

Coming Soon: Adaptive Leadership Practitioner Certification

A cohort-based certification for professionals who want to deepen their capacity to lead in complex environments and to facilitate Adaptive Leadership workshops that create real movement inside organizations.
The Visceral Problem You Will Solve
This is the expensive loop you will help organizations break:
  • The organization keeps applying technical solutions to adaptive challenges
  • Leaders work harder, add process, and the system snaps back
  • People resist because change requires loss: identity, status, control
  • The real work requires shared ownership across the system
What You Will Be Prepared to Facilitate
  • Diagnosing technical vs. adaptive challenges
  • Working with authority vs. leadership
  • Balcony and Dance Floor
  • The OII process
  • Identifying and working with the losses associated with change
  • The four adaptive styles and how to work with them
Duration
Four 1-hour trainings
Format
Virtual cohort
What Is Included
  • Certification badge
  • Adaptive Leadership Facilitator Guide
  • Exclusive access to CLA support
Ideal for: Coaches, consultants, facilitators, HR and OD and change leaders, and practitioners responsible for transforming systems, not just training skills.
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Take the Next Step: Get Certified 

If you are the person organizations call when things get stuck, when tension rises, when change stalls, or when complexity overwhelms, these certifications give you tools to guide progress, not just talk about it.
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