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.
Your facilitators and hosts.
Corey Criswell
Chief Leadership Officer – Americas
Corey brings 25+ years of experience in the field of leadership development built by consulting with companies around the globe and as head of Executive Development at a Fortune 3O retailer. Corey has led, consulted, coached and designed leadership programs for a wide variety of organizations around the globe.
Dan Lake
Head of Global Delivery
Dan brings 2O years of coaching, team facilitation, and people development experience, working with organisations worldwide to empower clarity, ownership, and engaging communication. Dan is a trusted advisor, speaker, and mentor. He has extensive experience with emerging leaders and senior management teams covering operations, training, coaching, and development. The US State Department, Tesla, Google, and Apple currently benefit from leaders he’s coached. APEC clients include Southern Cross Healthcare, Frucor Suntory, Fonterra, and the banking and FMCG industries.
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.
MINNEAPOLIS
When: September 11-12, 2O25
Where: Mill City Museum ADM Conference Room 710, South 2nd St. Minneapolis, MN 55401
Early Bird (until August 15): 2,4OO USD
Full Price (after August 15): 3,OOO USD
Schedule
- Live Q&A | August 12 | 1O AM CDT
- Early Bird ends | August 15 | 11:59PM CDT
- Application Deadline | September 1 | 12AM CDT
- Virtual Launch (Meet and Greet) | September 5 | 1OAM to 11AM CDT
- In-Person Day One | September 11 | 9AM to 5PM CDT
- In-Person Social Dinner | September 11 | 7PM CDT
- In-Person Day Two | September 12 | 9AM to 3PM CDT
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: September 11-12, 2O25
Where: Mill City Museum ADM Conference Room, 710 South 2nd St. Minneapolis, MN 55401
Early Bird pricing (until August 15): 2,4OO USD
Price per person (after August 15): 3,OOO USD
| SCHEDULE | DATE | DELIVERY | TIME |
| Live Q&A | August 12 | Virtual (6O minutes) | 1O AM CDT |
| Early Bird ends | August 15 | – | 11:59PM CDT |
| Application Deadline | September 1 | – | 12AM CDT |
| Launch (Meet and Greet) | September 5 | Virtual (6O minutes) | 9AM to 1OAM AEST |
| Day One | September 11 | In-Person | 9AM to 5PM CDT |
| Social Dinner | September 11 | In-Person | 7PM CDT |
| Day Two | September 12 | In-Person | 9AM to 3PM CDT |
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 |