Leadership for Uncertain Times · November and January cohorts filling now

Be the leader your team trusts when nothing is certain.

A 90-day program for executives moving into higher leadership responsibility, or facing a new level of uncertainty in the role they have. Achieve world-class results with cutting-edge leadership tools.

Designed and delivered by faculty who teach at Georgetown and Harvard.

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20 yrs

Building leaders

30+

Countries

Thousands

Leaders trained

Sold out

September cohort

Trained leaders at

Obama Foundation·UNICEF·The World Bank·U.S. Government·Fortune 500·Harvard·Georgetown

Outcomes

You will be able to —

— 01

Earn trust fast, with your team, peers, former peers and stakeholders.

— 02

Align your team behind a common direction to gain momentum.

— 03

Decide with confidence when the information is incomplete, and learn faster in action.

— 04

Read the room and the office politics, and know what others expect from you.

— 05

Stop leading alone, with a circle of peers and advisors who tell you the truth when few people around you will.

Nikola Ilić teaching at Georgetown University

Keynote · Leadership in uncertain times

How we work

Three principles. No lectures.

Most leadership programs end the moment you close your laptop. This one starts the moment you do.

Your real challenge is the case

You do not study someone else's case. You bring the team you lead and the results you need to deliver, and the method is applied to that. The work is the program.

Action learning

Live exercises and simulations under realistic pressure, in a small cohort of executives. You get feedback you can use the next time you are in the room, from the faculty, from your peers, and from LeadUp AI, our own AI tool that reviews what you actually said and did in every session.

Monday morning application

Every week gives you something to use right away: a question to ask, a move to make, a habit to start. You do not wait until the program is over to put it to work.

Your faculty

Two faculty who build leaders for the moments that matter most.

Co-facilitated by two faculty members who teach at Georgetown and Harvard, each with two decades of coaching leaders through high-stakes change.

Nikola Ilić

Co-facilitator · Leadership Professor at Georgetown University

Nikola is the founder of ChangeLab, a Leadership Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and the author of the forthcoming book The Uncertainty Advantage. Over 20 years he has trained thousands of leaders in more than 30 countries, at the Obama Foundation, UNICEF, the World Bank, U.S. Government agencies and Fortune 500 teams, and coaches executives, founders and senior officials through high-stakes change.

His method, Collective Intelligence Leadership, was built where the stakes were real: in pro-democracy movements he helped lead from his teenage years, in the four organizations and four companies he co-founded across Europe and the United States, and in the boardrooms and agencies where it has been tested since. He holds a master's degree from Harvard University and lives in Washington, DC.

Pedja Stojicic, MD, MPH

Co-facilitator · Teaches leadership at Harvard

Pedja teaches two courses at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Enabling Teams and Enabling Large System Change, and is the executive lead for People Power Health. He has worked with CMS, the Center for Public Health Leadership, the Healthcare Anchor Network and many others on leading change in large, complex systems.

He completed a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School in Leadership and Organizing with Prof. Marshall Ganz and later joined Ganz's teaching team. He has co-founded eight organizations and companies and serves on the advisory board of the Leading Change Network, one of the largest global networks of social movement leaders.

Trained leaders at

Obama Foundation
UNICEF
The World Bank
U.S. Government
Fortune 500
Harvard
Georgetown

From past clients

What people say about working with Nikola and Pedja.

"Nikola has been a cornerstone in my leadership journey, guiding me from leading a small team to my role as President of Volt Italy, and now as Deputy Mayor. His mentorship enabled me to align my leadership with my core values."

Federica Vinci · Deputy Mayor

"My coaching sessions with Nikola were truly transformative. They pushed me to reframe my thinking patterns and identify the internal thoughts that were the root of my challenges."

Maryann Wanjau · UNICEF

"In Nikola, I found an invaluable mentor whose dedication to fostering leadership skills profoundly shaped my approach to leadership. The program equipped me with the tools and confidence to lead with purpose."

Karim Pedersen

Everything included

What you get when you join.

The 90-day program, plus a year of office hours and community after it ends.

100% money-back guaranteeWe will return your money at any point during the program if you do not see the value. Your only job is to show up and do the work.

The program

The 90-day live cohort program, in a small cohort of 6 to 10 executives

Personalized LeadUp AI feedback after every session, and a patterns report at the end of the 90 days

Bonuses

Bonus 011-on-1 onboarding session with Nikola, focused on your challenge

Bonus 02Weekly office hours with Nikola for a full year after the cohort

Bonus 03One year of access to all materials and the community

Common questions

Things people ask before applying.

If your question is not here, bring it to the call.

Who is this program for?

Executives and startup leaders who lead a team and are moving into higher leadership responsibility, or facing a new level of uncertainty in the role they have. Recent cohorts have included CEOs, a COO at a major philanthropy, founders, and healthcare leaders. If you are hoping for a quick career hack or a course you watch passively, it is not for you.

What is the time commitment?

The program runs over 90 days. Plan on about 2 hours per week for the live sessions, plus 1 to 2 hours per week to apply the work to your own challenge between sessions.

What if I cannot make a session live?

Every session is recorded and shared within 24 hours. The cohort experience is best live, but nobody is penalized for a missed week. Office hours run weekly for a full year after the cohort ends.

Can my company expense this?

Many participants do. We provide an itemized receipt and a one-page program description for HR, L&D or finance approval. If you would like a draft justification email to send your manager, ask on the call.

Join the next cohort

Bring the leadership challenge you are carrying.

Answer a few short questions about your situation, then book a free 30-minute exploration call with Nikola. On the call we work out together whether this is the right next step for you, and discuss cohort placement, schedule and payment plans.

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November and January cohorts filling now · Limited to 10 seats per cohort · Money back at any point if you do not see the value