12-week live online program · Next cohort TBD, 2027
In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, traditional change models continue to fail us. Watch how LTC participants learn to leverage complexity itself to drive faster, low-resistance, and sustainable change.
Only 17% of leaders feel confident anticipating and reacting to change.
Organizations with effective change leadership are 2.4x more likely to meet or exceed their financial targets.
Just 5% of leaders say a traditional leader-centered model is best suited for the AI era. Most favor hybrid, distributed or shared leadership.
Most organizations prepare structures and communication plans. Few prepare leaders. Leading Through Complexity™ builds the leadership capacity that change actually runs on.
The next cohort is TBD, 2027, and spaces are intentionally limited to 50 participants. Join the waitlist to be the first to hear cohort dates, tuition, and early-access details. No obligation.
live learning-by-doing workshops + a bonus 13th week Open Space event
hours of expert group-based instruction
Complexity Leadership Model™, taught across Weeks 4-8
slides, plus ~40+ handouts, exercises & templates
applied-learning case study
days of access to all content & recordings
Your Instructor
Founder and managing partner of Henosis Partners LLC. Award-winning author of six books with 30+ years of management consulting experience. He specializes in leading dialogic-based, complexity-informed organizational improvement and facilitating large-group dialogic-based process workshops using World Café, Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, and Circle Method.
Curriculum
Kickstart your journey by delving into the evolving nature of organizations and the forces driving change. Understand the limitations of traditional change models that rely on predictability and control, and step into the future with the Complexity Leadership Model™ (CLM), designed for dynamic and adaptive change.
In this session, we’ll uncover the deep structure of complexity within organizations and systems, examining how interconnectedness, nonlinearity, and emergence give rise to both challenges and opportunities.
In this session, we will introduce the Complexity Leadership (Theory of Change) Model, which provides a framework for navigating and leveraging the VUCA-like environment that we operate in today of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to drive impactful change.
This week, we embark on a transformative journey into the 8-Step Complexity Leadership Model™, beginning with a powerful deep dive into the often-overlooked realm of “inner complexity”—the hidden mental models, biases, and dark constraints that quietly shape our decisions, relationships, and the systems we influence.
This week invites you to step into the role of a MASTER change agent by uncovering the often-invisible forces that shape the success or failure of transformative efforts.
Discover what it truly means to be a Complexity Leader. This week, you'll explore the capabilities, mindset, and daily practices necessary to lead in complex environments.
This session explores the shift from designing and executing episodic change to embedding a discipline of ongoing, continuous adaptation as the foundation for building organizational resilience and sustained innovation.
In this session, each POD (team of 3 participants) will present their applied learning case study, showcasing how they leveraged the Complexity Leadership Model™ to address a real organizational challenge.
In this capstone session, we’ll play back the complexity narratives we’ve been harvesting throughout the course—surfacing key patterns, shifts, and moments of insight.
The 8-step Complexity Leadership Model™ in a free 30-page guide.
Participants
“From week 1 of the course, I have been able to successfully apply what I have learned in my role as an OD/Change Leader with added confidence.”
“I guarantee even the most seasoned OD/Change professional will learn a copious amount from this course.”
“The Leading Through Complexity™ programme was a game-changer in how I approach supporting leadership through change.”
“This course transformed how I look at my role as a leader in groups.”
“I’ve gained valuable insights, strategies, and confidence in handling organizational change. I give it a solid 10/10.”
“It gave me frameworks and language to explain what is so hard to explain about adaptive leadership and complexity.”
Outcomes
Upskill, reskill, and elevate your-SELF to serve competently and confidently in a 'Complexity Leader' role
Integrate Diagnostic-based change, Dialogic-based change, and Experiential Learning
"Create the conditions" to enable transformational change to occur
Leverage strategic foresight practices to engage with the emerging future
Design 'innovation sequences' that catalyze adaptive change
Expertly apply the Complexity Leadership (Theory of Change) Model and the PEARL Framework
Is this right for you?
You’re passionate about using your business transformation/change leadership knowledge, skills, and capabilities to help other people
You want to be 'ahead' of change vs. being 'consumed' by change
You want to develop business transformation & change leadership skills and capabilities of the future, to increase your relevance, impact, and value offered to your clients or employer
You have greater ambitions beyond just serving organizations to also help resolve complex adaptive challenges within your community, region, or broader humanity
You feel a deeper connection or 'calling' to leverage dialogic-based ways of realizing social and organizational transformation
Open to learning new methods, tools, and techniques to broaden your professional reach, influence, and income level
You are comfortable with the status quo; with your CURRENT knowledge, skills, and capabilities, and are not looking to 'push' yourself; to grow professionally and personally
You expect results without putting in the effort. You have to be passionate about upskilling YOU to become a Complexity Leader and be willing to put in the time and follow the steps
You're not interested in learning new methods, tools, and techniques to better compete in an ever-competitive marketplace
(12) engaging ("live") learning-by-doing workshops with Randall Scott; ~40 hours of expert group-based instruction + a bonus 13th week Open Space Technology event
Individual, paired, subgroup, and plenary breakout activities and exercises
An applied learning 'case study' worked in a 3-person “pod” format
Meeting via Zoom, with the MURAL digital canvas for in-class exercises
(12) 'core' modules of downloadable course content, including recorded sessions of each "live" meeting event
Supplemental handouts, exercises, and templates (~40+)
A comprehensive 'glossary of terms' and a recommended 'reading list'
"Members-only" peer community site
1 year (365 day) access to all program content
FREE MINI COURSE
6 short video lessons, about 33 minutes, from Week 2 of Leading Through Complexity™. They show change leaders why proven methods fail on complex challenges, and what to do instead.
Why it takes complexity to beat complexity, and why you can't fix an end-to-end process with half the system in the room.
How to tell technical from adaptive challenges, and use the Cynefin framework to decide what kind of problem you're facing.
Three strategies for leveraging complexity: expose, amplify and integrate, so change sticks instead of stalling.
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Questions
This immersive online course spans 12 weeks, with an optional Bonus Week featuring a virtual Open Space Technology event.
We teach an 8-step CLM framework grounded in complexity science, systems thinking, and experiential learning—designed to lead adaptive change with clarity and agility.
You’ll receive over 500+ slides, templates, tools, two executive whitepapers, and a Digital OD toolkit—all included at no extra charge
The course integrates MURAL, Remo Metaverse, SurveyMonkey, Grok/ChatGPT, Power BI, and Podia for interactive sessions, peer learning, experimentation, and project delivery.
Participants collaborate in 3-person “pods” to apply course learnings in a real-time case study—receiving constructive peer feedback and coaching throughout.
Yes! You’ll have access to a vibrant online community space, regular office hours, and peer forums where you can connect, ask questions, and share insights.
Absolutely. Weekly office hours provide live Q&A, group coaching, and deeper dialogue to reinforce learning and application.
Yes. Upon completion of the 12-week course - Leading Through Complexity™ - you will receive a formal certificate of completion that you can proudly share with others on social media.
This course suits transformation leaders, change agents, coaches, and OD professionals committed to mastering adaptive, forward-looking leadership in complex environments.
Enrollment for the next cohort opens soon. Spaces are intentionally limited so every participant gets real attention. Join the waitlist above to be the first to know when registration opens.
From the blog
Leading Through Complexity: Faster, Sustainable Change
How to leverage complexity to solve complex adaptive challenges faster, with little to no resistance, and in a way that sustains over time.
Complexity Leadership Model: Solving Intractable Challenges
A new change method attuned to the times in which we live: one that leverages complexity and embraces ambiguity.
The Role of the Complexity Leader
Complexity leaders manage the process, not the content. Explore light-touch facilitation, the integrator role and hidden dark constraints.
It Takes Complexity to Beat Complexity
Treating complex challenges with technical fixes fails every time. Learn how requisite complexity and Cynefin help you choose the right approach.
Failure's Okay: Safe-to-Fail Probes and the PEARL Flywheel
In complex change, you experiment your way forward. Learn how safe-to-fail probes and the PEARL cycle help you learn fast.
The next cohort is TBD, 2027, and spaces are intentionally limited to 50 participants. Join the waitlist to be the first to hear cohort dates, tuition, and early-access details. No obligation.