Afrika Kommt! Leadership Refresher course
May 13-16, 2024 | Nairobi, Kenya
Readings
Excerpt of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ron Heifetz, Marty Linsky, and Alexander Grashow here.
“The Real Reason Why People Won’t Change” by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey here.
“The Art of Asking Smarter Questions” from Harvard Business Review here.
“The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most” from Harvard Business Review here.
Day 1: DOT + Technical and adaptive challenges
Adaptive Leadership slides here.
DOT learnings here.
Technical and Adaptive worksheet here.
Case Consultation instructions here.
Day 2: Leadership beyond authority + faction mapping
Day 3: Immunity to change
Day 4: Alumni Network workshop
ITC Maps here.
Moving forward
Stay in Touch as You Experiment! Feel free to reach out to us with any questions or to talk through these ideas. You can also connect with us on LinkedIn.
Connect with New Ideas in Leadership. Subscribe to KONU’s LinkedIn Page and our On the Balcony Podcast, which features interviews with leadership practitioners
Keep Dancing! Find the Spotify Playlist from the course here.
Facilitation Team
Falk Bothe
Falk loves to engage with people and co-create options for their dreams, objectives and challenges. He enjoys engaging into meaningful dialogues to design new perspectives for clients and develop ways to implement these perspectives into daily lives. His coaching and consulting approach is based on the conviction that individuals and organizations can find solutions for their goals and issues with the right mixture of learning, ownership, support, and humor.
Falk leads an internal consulting unit with branches in 6 Countries within a multinational publicly traded automotive company. His focus is on strategy implementation and transformation, specializing in leadership development and collaboration improvement. In his more than 30 years of professional working experience, Falk continuously followed up on his adult development, he holds an MBA of the University of applied Sciences Harz and a degree in banking business administration. He is a business coach, trained in provocative style and a CPCC – certified professional co-active coach. He is a Harvard Kennedy School Executive education alumnus and holds an executive certificate in public leadership from HKS plus an executive certificate in management and leadership from MIT Sloan executive education.
He lectured organizational development and leadership at the technical university of Braunschweig, worked as dance instructor for Rock Acrobatic dancing and West Coast Swing in Germany and on a cruise ship and has been part of the German national team as semiprofessional Rock Acrobatic dancer. Falk enjoys spending time traveling with his wife and uses his negotiating skills to co-parent their 2 Kids when it gets to media using allowances. In periods of absolutely no obligations Falk endeavors on exploring lower-saxonies on his Motorbike.
Caroline Kiare
Caroline has a passion for supporting leaders and organizations to maximize their impact and presence. She has over 13 years’ experience leading teams and social programs in the non-profit, philanthropic and intergovernmental sectors across Africa, working most recently with the United Nations Development Program.
Caroline has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Communication, a Master of Arts Degree in International Conflict Management and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program in Public Leadership. She has also supported the Adaptive Leadership course offered by Harvard Kennedy School in Kenya in collaboration with Aga Khan University as an Adaptive Leadership Coach. Caroline also holds a Certificate in Social Impact Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania.
As a leadership coach, Caroline partners with clients in a journey of self-awareness, discovery and embodiment. Caroline believes that there is leadership excellence in everyone and coaching is a way to reveal and maximize that. Her coaching approach aims to support leaders to take purposeful and sustainable action(s) to achieve desired objectives and find fulfillment through their professional pursuits. With her warm presence, strong intuition and rich experience in social systems, Caroline offers a collaborative and dynamic coaching experience.
Caroline received her leadership coaching training from Georgetown University and is currently pursuing an Associate Certified Coach certification with the International Coaching Federation. Caroline lives in Nairobi, Kenya with her family.
Diana Lingg
Diana is a networking person. She easily reaches out to new encounters and loves to hear their stories, their learnings, and their aspirations. She especially excels in finding common ground between total strangers and then brings her talent to connect these strangers for mutual benefit. She is a WYSIWYG type, likes straightforward helpful and constructive feedback both on the receiving and sending end.
Diana is a management consultant in an internal consulting unit with branches in 6 Countries within a multinational publicly traded automotive company. Her Focus is on Business Development in Europe and the Americas. In her more than 30 years of experience she has been self-employed and been a supplier and event manager in the automotive sector, owned a bar and has worked in huge corporate organizations within the automotive and IT Industry. Next to her professional education Diana is a certified Event Manager and an IMD executive education alumnus for Digital Business Transformation.
Her keen observation and feedback capacity combined with her strategy implementation experience adds valuable insights for her clients and coachees. Diana specializes in getting to the core of a task and enable her partners, colleagues and clients to create their own “getting things done” journey.
In her free time, Diana is running the Office for WAKO, the Geman Kick Box Association, enjoys traveling and biking with her husband and adult daughter and going to theater and sports events, she is supporting the Braunschweig Basket Ball team.
Elise Alexander
Elise is passionate about supporting people and organizations to develop new capacities and make purposeful change.
Elise’s career has been guided by her belief that learning happens on the edge of one’s comfort zone. She earned a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard College, during which she also studied Adaptive Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Adult Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Shortly before the onset of the COVID pandemic, Elise moved to Louisiana to work on innovative education policies for students with disabilities as a Govern for America Fellow. She then came to Germany as a U.S. State Department Fellow, where she honed her intercultural skills and built a consulting practice focused on equitable systems change. She has advised leading American mayors on strategic educational leadership, managed sustainability strategy for community-led vocational training programs across Appalachia, and facilitated impact evaluation for development projects in Asia and Africa.
Elise’s leadership portfolio includes designing and delivering experiential leadership programs at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Germany. She also has several years of experience in wilderness leadership, guiding individuals toward (literal) new heights and perspectives.