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UN Leadership Catalyst Series - Leading with Agility (Edition 2)
Designed exclusively for UN system directors (D1/D2), the UN Leadership Catalyst Series provides a reflective, high-impact learning space to examine, adapt, and elevate leadership practice in the face of volatility and uncertainty.
UN leaders today are called to lead through immense complexity. Agility - the capacity to sense, adapt, and respond effectively in such dynamic environments - has become a defining leadership requirement across the System.
The UN Leadership Catalyst Series - Leading with Agility brings together insights from behavioural science, organisational psychology, and systems thinking, and invites participants to:
- Strengthen their emotional and relational intelligence for more grounded, effective leadership;
- Build collaboration and trust across boundaries to accelerate synergies and progress; and
- Enhance resilience and agility at the self, team, and organisational levels to meet the demands of change and transformation.
As participants engage in this edition of the UN Leadership Catalyst Series – Leading with Agility, they will:
- Deepen emotional intelligence and self-leadership capacities to respond with clarity and composure under pressure.
- Strengthen the ability to build psychologically safe, collaborative environments that unlock collective capability and trust.
- Enhance strategic agility by aligning team and organisational resilience with the UN’s evolving mandates and reform priorities.
The programme uses an immersive, dialogue-driven approach anchored in live peer exchange and applied reflection.
It combines:
- Three 4-hour interactive sessions, blending faculty input, case discussions, and facilitated reflection.
- Guided peer dialogue to surface shared experiences and cross-entity insights.
- Practical frameworks and takeaways to support and sustain learning and application beyond the sessions.
The programme will comprise three deep-dive sessions, exploring three interwoven dimensions of agile leadership, each addressing the interplay between self, team, and system.
Session 1 – Inner Mastery: Emotional Intelligence and Self-Leadership Capacities
- Building self-awareness and emotional agility in moments of ambiguity and stress.
- Regulating attention and emotion to sustain focus and presence.
- Recognising personal triggers and habitual responses that shape leadership impact.
Session 2 – Relational Field: Psychological Safety and Collaborative Leadership
- Creating conditions of trust, openness, and dialogue that enable learning and innovation.
- Cultivating collaborative practices that leverage diverse perspectives.
- Balancing authority with inclusion to empower teams amid uncertainty.
Session 3 – Resilient Systems: Team Agility and Organisational Resilience
- Fostering agility as a collective capacity.
- Strengthening coherence and adaptability across teams and organisational systems.
- Exploring how structures, culture, and leadership behaviours interact to support resilience and learning.
Senior UN staff at the D1/D2 levels;
Senior staff operating in relevant fields of international cooperation in complex, fast-changing contexts.
By open enrolment or nomination. (Please note that some UN organizations follow an internal nomination process to identify candidates for the programme).
The tuition for the programme is $ 1,200, inclusive of access to all sessions, materials and access to the learning platform for one year.
