Leadership Pathway

Experienced leaders: decide well, lead under pressure, and bring people with you.

For leaders who already know the basics. Practice making hard calls with incomplete information, leading a team through a crisis, and bringing skeptical people along.

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   The West Wing

   In the Room

   How do leaders make sound, defensible decisions when information is incomplete, advice conflicts, and every available choice carries a cost?

   You'll be able to:

   • Name the values a decision must protect before weighing options, and recognize when a personal stake compromises judgment.
   • Structure advice so that disagreement and bad news reach the decision-maker before the decision, not after.
   • Make and own a decision with incomplete information, separating process quality from outcome quality and noticing emotional influence.

   You'll leave with: Decision Brief

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   Apollo 13

   Work the Problem

   When something goes badly wrong and the clock is running, how does a team organize itself to make good decisions with what it actually has?

   You'll be able to:

   • Distinguish a crisis from a bad day and stand up a clear response structure in the first minutes.
   • Name who decides, who advises and how expertise reaches the decision-maker, before the crisis starts.
   • Keep one clear channel to the people doing the work and communicate accurately to many audiences, including what isn't known.

   You'll leave with: Crisis Playbook Card

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   Parks and Recreation

   Win the Room

   How do you make a case that moves skeptical people, especially in a public room, without steamrolling them or losing your integrity?

   You'll be able to:

   • Identify what a skeptical audience actually cares about and what level of say they expect.
   • Frame a proposal around the audience's values and interests, with credibility and honest trade-offs.
   • Run or join a tense meeting so concerns are heard, honest answers are given and trust survives.

   You'll leave with: My Persuasion Plan

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   Moneyball

   The Right Question

   How do you use data to see what experience alone misses, without letting the numbers mislead you or dismissing the people whose judgment they challenge?

   You'll be able to:

   • Reframe a decision so that data answers the question that actually matters, not the one that's easiest to measure.
   • Use data and expertise together, with each checking the other, rather than letting either dismiss the other.
   • Recognize when small samples, missing information, gamed metrics or selective success stories are distorting a conclusion.

   You'll leave with: My Evidence Plan

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