Custom Programs Amplifying leadership capacity for organizations

Program Overview

Amplify your organization’s crisis leadership capacity with a high-impact Harvard program designed to address your distinct requirements and circumstances. NPLI Faculty members bring their original, proven methods and practices into your organization. They learn your challenges and then build an engaging seminar tailored to your key priorities.

The customized course format can be in person at your location, virtual, or hybrid; small and intensive or large and comprehensive. These programs have been delivered worldwide, with demonstrated impact on an organization’s preparedness, culture, response, and resilience.

NPLI faculty will work with your organization to craft learning objectives, program structure, and content. This learning experience fortifies your team, making them ready to act when crisis hits.

The NPLI has delivered custom programs for a wide range of organizations, including government agencies such as FEMA and the CDC, multi-national energy corporations, humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross, and many more. Given the current risk environment and the downsides of a poorly led crisis, this is an investment with high return.

Sample Program Formats

• Interactive three-day “crisis management, leadership, and communications” workshop for a multi-national corporation readying its executives to respond in times of crisis.
• One-day program for organizational leaders to act as “force multipliers” in their communities in partnership with non-profit, humanitarian organizations.
• A three-part virtual leadership seminar series for a non-profit that supports and advocates for military spouses and their career and leadership development.
• A series of in-person and virtual leadership seminars for unit leaders of a large business facing a range of weather-related, cyber, geopolitical, and public health threats.
• An in-person seminar on crisis leadership practices and tools for a city emergency management agency to enhance collaboration with a range of local organizations.

Sample Program Agenda — One-Day Seminar

8:45 — 10:30 am: The Meta-Leadership Mindset :Participants learn how to apply Meta-Leadership to assess scenarios, solve complex problems, and coalesce key stakeholders.

10:45 am — 12:15 pm: You, the Leader :Participants learn how to practice the three dimensions of Meta-Leadership: the Person, the Situation, and Building Connectivity of Effort. Adopting a Growth Mindset, is the foundation of Meta-Leadership practice.

12:15 — 1:15 pm: Lunch and Network

1:15 — 2:45 pm: Complex Problem Solving: Participants will learn the Walk in the Woods method of negotiation, conflict resolution, and problem solving, using the case development method.

3:00 — 4:00 pm: Swarm Leadership: Team building, cohesion of effort, and force multiplier objectives are reinforced in applying the Swarm Leadership methodology.