21/05/2024
【Harvard University's Adaptive Leadership Training】
An intensive 3.5-day leadership training conducted by social entrepreneur and executive coach, Ada Ho, for only 6-8 senior executives from business corporations, schools and NGOs.
Objectives:
• Give participants a theoretical and practical understanding of adaptive leadership, developed and taught by Dr Ronald Heifetz at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
• Increase participants’ self-reflective capacity to sustain leadership.
• Participants learn to analyze and reflect on the group dynamics and skills in the practice of leadership, with or without authority.
• Drawing from several disciplines including philosophy, political science, business management, social psychology, and sociology, the training develops a framework for diagnosing social dynamics, and prepares participants to intervene and innovate in organizational systems.
Methodology:
In addition to the traditional methods of lectures and films, the training uses three more innovative teaching methods: participants’ cases, “case-in-point” learning, and structured exercises:
1. The training devotes a majority of its time to analyzing the past experiences that participants bring across sectors -- each participant works on a personal “leadership failure” case study.
2. Participants analyze the social and political dynamics of problem-solving and learning common to many organizations and societies facing critical challenges by analyzing the evolving dynamics of the training group itself as a case-in-point in collective problem-solving, learning, and change.
3. Through structured exercises of both reflection and action, participants learn a variety of authoritative, creative, and communication skills integral to the practice of adaptability.
Date:
1) Lecture : July 5, 14:30 - 18:30, AND
2) Intensive workshop, July 17-19, 9:00-18:30
Training fee: HK$27,800 per person
Language: Cantonese
To sign up or for enquiry, please PM me or write to [email protected]. Ada will call you directly to discuss further details.
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Ada Ho (何靜瑩) is currently Founder and CEO of internet startup, Paxxioneer, that connects travelers with passionate local individuals to enrich their journey and foster personal learning.
She co-founded L plus H Fashion, a social enterprise established in 2009 to create job opportunities for under-served people while incubating a new generation of fashion designers, technicians, garment workers and entrepreneurs for Hong Kong.
In 2013, she co-founded L plus H Creations Foundation that uses professional theatrical performances (musicals, drama, filming) to strengthen underprivileged teenagers’ self-confidence, discipline, motivation and team spirit. The performing art training is integrated with positive values and character education. She is also Producer for full-length musicals “The Awakening” in 2013 and “Against the Wind” in 2014”, and recently documentary film “My Voice, My Life.”
She has been Honorary Assistant Professor of the Hong Kong University and columnist for Ming Pao, Hong Kong Economic Journal and Hong Kong Economic Times. She has published six books about leadership and management.
Ada was honored as “National Geographic Chinese Explorer 2018”. She was awarded “Most Successful Women 2017” by Jessica Magazine, and “Local Heroes 2014” by Ming Pao Weekly.
In response to the 8.0-magnitude earthquake of Sichuan in May 2008, Ada founded the Hong Kong Special Music Squad that provided music and play therapy to almost 20,000 victims within a month. In recognition of her social innovation in Sichuan, she was honored with the “Humanitarian Award” in 2008 by the Women’s International Film and Television Showcase in Los Angeles.
Ada previously worked in the business sector in strategic planning, management consulting, and currency derivatives trading at various international corporations.
Ada holds a Master in Public Policy degree at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree at Georgetown University.
