Special Topics: Learning Agility

3 credits

The most reliable predictor of leadership effectiveness in complex, changing environments is not intelligence, experience, or technical expertise. It is learning agility: the capacity to learn from experience faster than the environment changes and to apply insight from one context to genuinely novel situations. This course develops learning agility as both a personal leadership practice and an organizational leadership responsibility. Students examine the five dimensions of learning agility, including mental, people, change, and results agility along with the self-awareness that grounds all four, against the backdrop of the adult learning science that explains how those dimensions are developed rather than merely described. The course then moves to the organizational level, examining how leaders build genuine learning cultures, create the psychological safety that makes organizational learning possible, and design the development experiences that grow learning agility at scale.