The Art of Leading Collectively

Great collaboration doesn’t happen by accident — it’s intentionally led, strengthened, and practiced collectively.

Today’s complex challenges call for co-creation. Yet the realities of collaboration can be challenging: limited resources, conflicting agendas, social tensions, power imbalances, and multi-level decision-making. All of this can make it difficult to initiate, sustain, and scale genuine co-creation within teams and across partnerships.

The Collective Leadership Compass is a practical, human-centered framework that helps you assess, align, and continuously strengthen your collaborative efforts. By bringing diverse actors together and shaping adaptive partnerships that evolve into living networks, teams can navigate challenges with clarity and care, unlock collective potential, and turn diversity into strength. It’s where authenticity meets effectiveness — and where co-creation becomes both a strategic and a deeply human success.

Your key take-aways:

• Understand Collective Leadership as the foundation of co-creation — where leadership is shared and diversity becomes strength.
• Learn how to lead co-creation with aliveness, integrating purpose, authenticity, and collective intelligence into your leadership practice.
• Apply the Collective Leadership Compass to design, navigate and monitor collaboration processes .
• Build resilient and adaptive structures that support outcome-oriented partnerships.
• Translate your learning directly into your projects: Develop a six-month action plan, applying the principles of The Art of Leading Collectively.
• Convince colleagues and partners that leading collectively will ease the management of complex change.

Important information

This training is planned as a hybrid event – both in-person participation in Potsdam, Germany, and online participation at Central European Time (CET) are possible. Please choose your format when you register.

CLI reserves the right to change an in-person participation into an online participation if you do not get your visa on time or other short-term notice reasons prevent you from coming to the course venue. Furthermore, the same applies if new pandemic situations occur that do not allow your participation on-site. Registrations remain valid in any of the cases given. 

Registration is available here (in-person & online).