The Innovative Leadership in Uncertain Times (ILIUT) course is a three-day accelerated course - open to graduate students from across Hopkins - designed to help hone critical leadership skills while working within a diverse team to solve complex problems in a simulated fast-paced professional environment.
This course is an intensive, experiential-learning opportunity focused on honing students’ leadership and decision-making in the kinds of uncertain, dynamic, and complex environments facing modern organizations. Centered around a multi-day “leadership challenge” simulation, students will be thrust into a developing crisis scenario and work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver an innovative solution while experiencing first-hand the challenges of adapting leadership to a dynamic, evolving environment where little is certain. This high-impact experience allows students to focus on developing their empathy, competence, and agility as they are asked to meet the needs of different stakeholders and address tensions and trade-offs that arise during the challenge. Focused debriefs, guest lectures, and class sessions allow students to reflect on the lessons of this experience and walk away with strategies for their own leadership in uncertain times.
The course takes place in-person at the Bloomberg Center in Washington DC over three days, with a required zoom session before and after the in-person experience. Please note that in-person sessions will occupy the full day (including late evening on the first day of the course). Please carefully review the course calendar ahead-of-time and schedule accordingly. Given the intensive nature of this course and its experiential learning components, it is not possible to participate in other courses, events, or activities during te primary course dates. Full attendance and participation is required for all in-person sessions.
For more information, upcoming course dates, and registration, visit SIS.
