Description

Leading Through Crisis and Change
Resilience, Leadership & Sustainability in Mission-Driven Organizations

Every mission-driven organization eventually meets a moment it wasn’t built for: a funding source disappears, a leader departs, a war or a pandemic reshapes everything overnight. The organizations that endure aren’t the ones that avoid these moments. They’re the ones that saw their own fault lines early and reinforced them before the pressure arrived.

Grounded in the research behind Leadership, Service, and Wicked Problems, this course examines how disruption exposes the weaknesses already inside an organization and, more importantly, gives you the tools to find and address yours before a crisis does it for you.

You won’t just study crisis leadership. You’ll assess your own organization across four dimensions: trust, change readiness, stakeholder clarity, and crisis vulnerability, using a diagnostic system that turns what you sense into something you can see and act on. From that, you’ll build a Crisis & Change Action Plan grounded in your organization’s actual situation and measure your own growth from where you started.

For the leaders, educators, nonprofit and ministry teams, and mission-driven professionals doing work that matters in conditions that rarely cooperate, this is how you lead through the storm without losing the mission underneath it.