Certification Courses
Certification Courses
Find out more about HSD Professional Certification Training
Build your adaptive capacity, prepare to support your teams and communities, and join an international community of transformative change makers.
Adaptive Action Labs
Patterns of Facilitation: Leading Groups through Complex Decision Making
Feb 15, 17, 2022 | 12p - 3p CST | Online
The face and function of facilitation have changed in today’s complex landscape. In uncertain and ambiguous challenges, groups are asked to take creative action, even when they cannot predict or control what will happen.…
Thriving in Uncertainty: An Introduction to HSD
Multiple Offerings | Online
Are you curious about human systems dynamics? Do you want to see how this new approach to complexity will help you thrive in a world that grows more challenging every day? Come with us and explore what it takes to navigate…
Planning in Uncertainty: A Framework for Strategic Action
Apr 26, 28, 2022 | 12p - 3p CDT | Online
When the future is clear, planning is easy. Traditional planning assumed stable markets and slow-changing technology. Few stakeholders and long-term investment made it possible to plan a linear path toward predictable ends.…
Upcoming Labs
An Adaptive Action Lab offers the best of consulting and training into a single event. As a participant, you define and work on your most intractable challenge. Then you learn about human systems dynamics (HSD) as you apply your new learning to frame your challenge in a way that points to your best next wise action.
Adaptive Action Labs
Live Virtual Workshops
Live Virtual Workshops
How Close is Close Enough? Use Accuracy to Make Sense in Uncertainty
February 3, 2022 When change is fast and unpredictable, searching for perfection is a waste of time. Today your world moves too quickly! By the time you take a measurement, the landscape has changed, and your data is out of…
Look for Mileposts that Matter: Navigate Differences in Complex Systems
March 3, 2022 In a world of rapid change and unbelievable variety, you must find the differences that make a real difference. You make decisions when evidence is in short supply and the future is fuzzy. Old fashioned, rational…
Time is Not a Tightrope: Stand Strong in Each Moment
April 7, 2022 In a complex, uncertain world time does not flow in a straight, unbroken line. We can reflect on and learn from the past. We can imagine a smooth path into the future, but in the moment of change, anything can…
Upcoming Workshops
Glenda Eoyang, founder of the field of HSD, hosts free, online Virtual Workshops (webinars) every month. Covering topics from health care to education reform to world peace, she draws on current events, global opportunities and concerns, and local actions.
Custom Design Labs
Custom Design Lab
Online or in person, wherever you are…
Your intractable problems are one-of-a-kind. Your people are special. Your industry is transforming. Your market is shifting. Your challenges are wicked. Consultants make assumptions, give advice, and leave the work to you.…