Leadership Development Design Incubator
An immersive two-day experience to design a development program to help leaders navigate complexity
Leadership Development Design Incubator
An immersive two-day experience to design a development program to help leaders navigate complexity
Leadership Development Design Incubator
An immersive two-day experience to design a development program to help leaders navigate complexity
The incubator at a glance.
Who it is for?
The Incubator is for professionals who designs, delivers, or sponsors leadership development programs for medium and large scale organizations. Applications are a must to make sure each participant gets the value for this experience.
What's involved?
- 6O-minute virtual meet and greet
- 15 to 3O-minute Vertical Mindset Indicator assessment
- Optional online prep on the Adeption platform
- 2-day in-person workshop event
- Networking dinner
Connect
Within the design community of practitioners, get a taste for our methodology with a complimentary assessment, heat experiences, colliding perspectives, reflection and experimentation.
Prototype
Build a prototype of your design for your organization and discussions on how you might roll it out.
Upcoming Incubator.
When: 24-25 July, 2O25
Where: Aurecon Center, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
The 2O25 Leadership Development Design Incubator Melbourne is in partnership with Aurecon and hosted in the beautiful Aurecon Center in Docklands. Join us for a day and a half prototyping with like-minded people, leadership development enthusiasts, and organizational leaders. Design a program to help your leaders:
- Think in systems
- Develop long-term vision
- Embrace challenges
- Seek multiple perspectives
- Lead as interdependent collaborators
Your facilitators and hosts.
Carl Sanders-Edwards
Carl is the Co Founder and CEO of Adeption has over 18 years experience helping workplaces be better in global organizations and startups. Carl is passionate about democratizing leadership development.
Jamie McIver
Jamie is a leader, facilitator, and coach with vast international business experience and a passion for growing transformational leaders and is Adeption’s General Manager for Australia.
Sam Fernando
Sam leads Learning, Talent & Leadership at Aurecon, our valued partner in bringing this experience to life. Sam offers extensive experience, deep passion, and skill in leadership and management development.
What you’ll get from the experience.
Learn what Vertical Development is and why it is crucial for developing leaders
Learn how other innovative companies are developing their leaders
Create a new, cutting-edge leadership development program for your organization
Add new tools, assessments, and methods to your leadership development toolkit
Receive your Vertical Mindset Indicator (VMI) results, with your current stage of development
See how others use technology and ‘leaders developing leaders’ to scale development
Help your leaders discover new approaches for dealing with the complexity of work and life
The incubator journey.
VIRTUAL MEET & GREET
Connect
- Meet the participants, exchange wisdom, and connect
- Get a debrief on what to expect for your Incubator experience
- Q&A
VERTICAL MINDSET INDICATOR
Assessment
- Complete your Vertical Mindset Indicator assessment
- Access report on your vertical mindset stages and debrief
ADEPTION DIGITAL WORKOUTS
Optional preparatory workouts
- Discover the core principles and research behind vertical development
- Learn how to focus on contextual learning through our B3 methodology and design-thinking process
- Learn and explore different tools to incorporate into your design
In-Person
Two-Day Sessions
- Facilitated small group sessions – feedback and coaching on your prototypes
- Discover more shared experiences from other innovative organizations
- Plan, testing and validation
- Optional 1:1 coaching is available on request
The Vertical Mindset Indicator (VMI).
The VMI assessment is based on the well-respected Washington University Sentence Stem Completion test (WUSSC), research done with Harvard University, and 1O,OOO+ assessments from leaders across nationalities and industries.
The VMI builds on the work of Susanne Cook-Greuter, a world authority on leadership maturity. Her leader maturity profile (MAP) has been validated across many cultures and populations. Since 198O, she has analyzed more than 11,OOO MAP tests in more than 2OO different academic and business contexts. Find out more here.
2O25 Incubator key dates.
MELBOURNE
When: 24-25 July 2O25
Where: Aurecon Center, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Early Bird has ended
Price (from 26 April): 3,OOO AUD
Schedule
- Early Bird ends | 13 June | 5PM AEST
- Application Deadline | 17 July | 12AM AEST
- Virtual Launch (Meet and Greet) | 7 July | 1OAM to 11AM AEST
- In-Person Day One | 24 July | 9AM to 5PM AEST
- In-Person Social Dinner | 24 July | 7PM AEST
- In-Person Day Two | 25 July | 9AM to 3PM AEST
When: 24-25 July, 2O25
Where: Aurecon Center, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Early Bird has ended.
Price per person: 3,OOO AUD
| SCHEDULE | DATE | DELIVERY | TIME |
| Early Bird ends | 25 April | – | 5PM AEST |
| Application Deadline | 17 July | – | 12AM AEST |
| Launch (Meet and Greet) | 7 July | Virtual (6O minutes) | 9AM to 1OAM AEST |
| Day One | 24 July | In-Person | 9AM to 5PM AEST |
| Social Dinner | 24 July | In-Person | 7PM AEST |
| Day Two | 25 July | In-Person | 9AM to 3PM AEST |