L.E.A.D.I.N.G. with Emotional Intelligence: The Future of Human-Centered Leadership

In today’s rapidly changing workplaces, emotionally intelligent leadership isn’t optional; it’s essential. This interactive session with Dr. Alan Mueller introduces the L.E.A.D.I.N.G. with Emotional Intelligence framework, exploring seven key competencies that define future-ready leaders:
Listening, Empathy, Awareness, Development, Intercultural Competence, Navigating Expectations, and Growth Mindset. Blending humor, storytelling, and practical insight, Dr. Mueller challenges participants to rethink traditional models of emotional intelligence and equips them with actionable tools to strengthen connection, inclusion, and performance within their teams. Attendees will leave inspired and ready to lead with confidence, compassion, and clarity
Executives, Mid-Level Managers, Emerging Leaders

Beyond Inclusion Training:
Building Cultures that Get Real

How do you really know if your workplace is inclusive? Climate surveys often tell the same story; majority groups feel a sense of belonging, while underrepresented colleagues experience a different reality. This session challenges traditional approaches and gives HR leaders practical, evidence-based tools to evaluate inclusion through policy, training, language, environment, and social dynamics. Participants will learn how to shift the focus from one-time training events to culture transformation by addressing majority norms head-on. You’ll leave with a free easy-to-follow guide to move your organization from talking about shared values to living shared expectations. Real inclusion begins when we understand the cultures that already shape our workplaces, and intentionally co-create the ones we aspire to build.
Executives, Mid-Level Managers, Emerging Leaders, Full Teams

The Psychology of Personality: Using the Myers-Briggs to Lead, Communicate, and Thrive

With so many assessment tools available (Strengths Finder, DiSC, and more)
it’s easy to wonder if they’re all the same. They’re not. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) offers unique psychological insights that, when used correctly, can transform how leaders understand themselves and others. This interactive session demystifies the reality behind the MBTI, reveals common misuses, and shows how to apply it for more effective leadership,
communication, and team collaboration. Participants will explore how personality preferences influence decision-making, conflict, and stress—and how to lead more authentically by leveraging their own natural strengths. Guided by a certified MBTI practitioner with a doctorate in leadership (and a former improv comedian!), this session blends research, humor, and real-world tools that make learning to lead not just insightful, but fun.
Executives, Mid-Level Managers, Emerging Leaders, Full Teams 

KEYNOTES
Adaptive Challenge Consulting team members provide inspiring, authentic and even humorous keynote speeches. We do more than read slides, we customize our message and engage your audience.

Additional Leadership and
Team Development Workshops
We provide several independent workshops that can help your team work better together, develop leadership skills, become better managers and future managers, and make the workplace a better, healthier environment.

· Having difficult conversations

· Working in polarized office environments

· Inclusive customer service for front-line team members

· Fun with team building (even your introverts will enjoy this)

· Navigating religious and spiritual diversity in the workplace

· Building mentorship programs in the office

· Developing active listening skills for leadership

· Managing up

· Developing creativity and imagination in leadership

· Fostering lateral and divergent thinking for leaders

· Active listening

· Improv comedy and  communication

· Reducing stress at work

· Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

· Supercharging your teamwork

· Innovation

· Building cultures of accountability

EXAMPLE DEVELOPMENT WORK

• Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace - Our facilitators have a wealth of experience that can help your team lean in to conversations about diversity and how to work together. Whether you’re considering anti-bias training for your team, or want to take a deeper diver on what diversity means in your workplace, Adaptive Challenge Consulting can help.

• Building Strong Teams and Team Environments - Our consultants can help you build stronger teams within your organization.  Building a strong team is only sustainable when the daily environment also supports a team ownership, and we can help you get there.  This work challenges participants to create shared expectations, look at problem-solving in new ways and communicate better.

• The Psychology of Leadership and Teamwork - We can help you unlock the key of psychological preference. An often misunderstood instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assesses people's psychological preferences. This instrument, when properly interpreted, can help you develop a deeper understanding of the ways in which people perceive the world around them, make decisions and derive energy.  Deeper understandings even uncover the pitfalls your team experiences under stress.

• Change Management - We can help you understand change and how change works. Each of us carries within us a psychological immune system.  Much like our biological immune system, it exists to protect us, but often we fail to understand how this immunity interacts with change.  For organizations to change, the people within those organizations must understand their personal immunity to change.  Our consultants work with individuals and organizations to identify, examine and test the assumptions that hold us captive and prevent us from embracing change.