WEXNER HERITAGE PROGRAM
Madregot Institute, July 2025
Thank you for bringing your hearts and minds to our Adaptive Leadership sessions. Below you’ll find the program materials and related resources, for those of you who wish to dig in deeper.
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FULL PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program workbook, which includes the detailed case consultation guide
SESSION-SPECIFIC MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Leadership Is Learning: Distinguishing Technical vs. Adaptive Challenges
Menti results: What is one insight you are taking with you?
“The Theory Behind the Practice,” excerpted from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky (2009). This was also part of your Institute pre-work!
Getting on the Balcony: A Peer Case Consultation Process
Menti results: Case consultation contributions from outside the fishbowl
“The Most Underrated Skill in Management” by Nelson Repenning, Don Kieffer, and Todd Astor, for MIT’s Sloan Management Review. This was also part of your Institute pre-work!
Leading from Any Chair: Authority, Influence, and Leadership
“Leadership Is an Activity” – KONU blog post
“Leading With and Without Authority” – KONU blog post
“The People vs. Fritz Bauer” and “Labyrinth of Lies” – two films that both explore how the Auschwitz trials got underway, and the role Fritz Bauer (mentioned in KONU’s session) played
“Bridging Factions While Leading Without Authority” – a conversation with Julia Fabris McBride, CEO of the Kansas Leadership Center, from KONU’s On the Balcony podcast hosted by Michael Koehler
Orchestrating Progress: The Work of Adaptation and Generating Leadership Interventions
Menti results: If we were to end our Institute right now, what would you do next to mobilize progress on your challenge?
“Living in the Disequilibrium” – excerpted from The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky (2009)
“Shared Pain Is Taboo” – KONU blog post
“Building Bridges” – Chapter 6 in Leadership for a Fractured World by Dean Williams (2015).
“Academic Turns City into Social Experiment” by Maria Cristina Caballero, for The Harvard Gazette – featuring one mayor’s very creative and unexpected leadership interventions
“Leadership Is Not About Being the Expert – It’s About Changing People’s Relationship to Their Challenges” – KONU blog post, featuring a case study on building a holding environment to tackle a tough public challenge
Staying Anchored: Strategies and Mindset Shifts to Sustain Your Leadership Journey
“Keep Confidants and Don’t Confuse Them with Allies” – excerpted from Leadership on the Line by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
“When Your Job is Your Identity, Professional Failure Hurts More” by KONU co-founder Tim O’Brien, for the Harvard Business Review