Jerry Pico

"For about 10 years now, we've been talking about how to prepare leaders in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world, and designing leadership programs to do just that. Yes, we've had some periods where we experienced various components of the VUCA paradigm in various combinations - however, we've never really experienced the full impact of all four factors on a sustained basis until this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine you've worked with your company's pan-European executive leadership team for over a year, facilitating several workshops to work with them to co-design their own 2.5 year-long leadership development program, and you're ready to launch the first or five modules to develop their self-awareness at a remote retreat, and you go into lock-down because of the pandemic...what would you do? This is the situation I faced last month and in this talk, I'll present how we addressed these challenges.