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Complexity is outpacing leadership development. Are your leaders keeping up?

The speed of change in today’s world—economic volatility, technological disruption, and evolving workforce dynamics—is exposing a critical leadership gap. The leaders who thrived in the past may not be equipped to lead in this volatile, unpredictable environment. While organisations invest heavily in leadership training, most programmes focus on horizontal development—teaching new skills and competencies.

However, there is a growing awareness of the urgent need for adaptive leadership capabilities within the next five years. Many organisations are struggling to address this gap, as individuals at all levels require future-focused skills to meet the demands of their roles.

The problem? Skills alone are not enough to navigate complexity and lead transformation. In a world of constant change, it’s not just about what leaders know; it’s about how they think and adapt.

Join us for our next webinar, hosted by Human Resources Online (HRO) in partnership with Integrated Learning Systems (ILS), for insights on how to move past conventional leadership development, which focuses on expanding what leaders know, to vertical development. Understand the framework needed for adaptive leadership development focuses on how leaders think, evolve, and respond to uncertainty.

In this 60-minute interactive session, we’ll explore how organisational leaders, talent development decision-makers, and strategic HR leaders can integrate both horizontal and vertical development to build leaders who adapt with agility, shape change rather than react to it, and harness challenges as opportunities.

Key takeaways from this complimentary webinar include:
  • The case for adaptive leadership – Why traditional leadership programmes fall short.

  • Beyond skills: horizontal vs. vertical development – How to develop leaders who don't just know more but think differently and operate at higher levels of complexity.

  • Action logics & leadership growth – Understanding the different stages of leadership mindsets and how to accelerate vertical development.

  • Practical strategies to build adaptive leaders – Actionable steps to embed awareness, mindset shifts, sensemaking and mental complexity into leadership development.

  • Scaling leadership transformation – How to champion a culture of adaptability in your organisation.

  • Bonus: Free resources + case studies (reading materials, whitepapers, simple checklist).
    • When
    Tuesday, May 27, 2025 · 10:00 a.m. Singapore (GMT +8:00)
    Agenda
    • Opening by HRO
    • Presentation by Jessica Choo, Founder and Chief Strategist, ILS
    • Live Q&A with the audience
    • Key takeaways and closing
    Presenters
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    Jessica Choo
    Founder and Chief Strategist, ILS
    With more than 30 years' consulting and operational experience, Jessica has extensive working knowledge in the areas of strategic leadership development, performance consulting, organisation development, team effectiveness, and transformation success. Her behavioural science approach, coupled with her passion in people and result-orientedness , has consistently helped her clients achieve impressive results in organisation-wide people performance and culture change initiatives.

    A highly-established organisation development consultant, she has addressed over 15,000 executives and worked on more than 200 client projects across 20 countries. During the strategic assignments involving ministers and prominent CEOs in Singapore, Jessica consistently demonstrated her capability to focus the group and achieve creative progress and buy-in through her effective facilitation.

    In recent years, Jessica has incorporated Growth Mindset interventions into her work as a powerful way to catalyse performance and growth.
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    Aditi Sharma Kalra
    Editor-in-Chief, Human Resources Online
    Aditi leads a team of journalists across Asia to manage all content for Human Resources Online (HRO)’s news portal, daily e-bulletins, social media, new media formats, as well as curates partnership opportunities dedicated to showcasing the most progressive people practices in the region. She brings over 15 years of experience in the HR space, and is passionate about helping to elevate the HR profession.
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