
future trends in leadership development

Vertical Development
Incubator
Learn how to design and deliver a vertically informed leadership development program.
Join Nick Petrie, author of ‘Future Trends in Leadership Development’ and Carl Sanders-Edwards, founder of the vertical coaching platform, Adeption.io for a three-month incubator, including 2 days in San Francisco on July 21, 22, 2O23.
Learn new approaches from a community who are designing & delivering vertical programs in their organizations. Collaborate with others to design a program that combines horizontal development (skills, knowledge competencies) with vertical development (mindset capabilities).
This incubator is for people who are designing and/or delivering leadership development programs (acceptance criteria required).
July 21 - 22, 2O23
San Francisco

What You’ll get From the Incubator
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Become part of a design community of leading-edge practitioners
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Learn what Vertical Development is and why it is crucial for developing leaders
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Learn how other innovative companies are developing their leaders
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Create a new, cutting-edge leadership development program for your organization
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Add new tools, assessments, and methods to your leadership development toolkit
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Receive your Vertical assessment results showing your current stage of development
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See how organizations are using technology and ‘leaders developing leaders’ to scale and spread development
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Help your leaders discover new approaches for dealing with the complexity of work and life
Why Vertical Development Matters?
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The challenges leaders face have changed and we need a new kind of leadership to elevate our impact and effectiveness
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Today’s leaders need vertical development to help them grow more adaptive mindsets for the complex challenge of the 21st century
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Vertically developed leaders are able to think more systemically, see the long-term possibilities, embrace challenges from multiple perspectives, and lead as interdependent collaborators
What does the incubator involve?
A three-month process
DAY 1
Learn about Vertical Development
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Discover the core principles and research behind vertical development
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Learn about different assessments for measuring leaders
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Explore four approaches for vertically developing leaders
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How to introduce and spread vertical developmental in your organization
DAY 2-
Create your Vertical Leadership Program
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Design a vertical leadership program to use in your company (or with clients)
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Work on your Vertical project in groups of 4
Practice pitching to your stakeholders
Get and give feedback and feedforward
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Get expert coaching to rapidly iterate and improve your design
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Learn from designs created by others in the group
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Discover technology approaches for increasing behavior change
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Customize your approach on the vertical development app
ONGOING-
Virtual
Development Support
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Facilitated small group sessions to share progress and next steps (virtual)
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Ongoing access to materials, tools and prompts with our app
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Group coaching with your peers on your developmental edge and actions
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Optional 1:1 coaching is available on request (for an additional cost).

READY TO TAKE YOUR
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS
VERTICAL?
$2500
Full 3-month incubator program
(includes 2 days in San Francisco)