The Future Leaders Playbook: From Stability to Agility - Leading on New Terms

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The Future Leader’s Playbook: From Stability to Agility – Leading on New Terms is a fast-paced, one-hour course that challenges leaders to rethink everything they thought they knew about leadership. Built on Steve Cadigan’s Workquake philosophy, it confronts the collapse of the old stability-based leadership model and equips leaders with a new mandate: fuel growth, build trust, and lead with agility in a world where certainty no longer exists. Through provocative stories, real-world case studies, and practical “plays,” participants will learn how to shift from command to connection, harness technology without losing humanity, and redefine loyalty as learning and movement. Leaders will walk away with a sharper understanding of today’s realities and a personal “Future Leadership Charter” to start leading confidently on new terms.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

• Recognize why traditional stability-based leadership models no longer work and how instability has become the new normal in today’s world of work.
• Understand the new mandate for leaders—shifting from protecting jobs to fueling growth, building trust, and inspiring adaptability.
• Develop the skills to move from command-and-control to connection and coaching, enabling teams to thrive in uncertainty.
• Explore how technology and AI reshape leadership roles, and learn to harness them as catalysts for more human-centered outcomes.
• Apply practical “plays” from the Future Leader’s Playbook to design a personal leadership charter that drives confidence and growth in times of change.

Major Subjects The Collapse of Stability-Based Leadership
• Why the old leadership contract no longer fits today’s realities
• Shifting the foundation from stability to agility

The New Mandate for Leaders
• Trust as the new currency of leadership
• Growth and movement as the new forms of loyalty
• From “job protector” to “talent multiplier”

From Command to Connect
• Moving beyond control and hierarchy
• The leader as coach, curator, and connector
• When to step in vs. when to step back

Technology, AI, and the Human Imperative
• AI as a catalyst for more human-centered leadership
• Avoiding the trap of treating AI as just an org chart problem
• Balancing speed and efficiency with humanity

The Future Leader’s Playbook
• Five essential “plays” for leading in instability
• Building ecosystems of talent beyond traditional employees
• Elevating human skills—curiosity, empathy, adaptability

Personal Leadership Reset
• Redefining what leadership success looks like today
• Drafting a personal “Future Leadership Charter”
• Building confidence, not just certainty, in teams