• July 17 · Virtual · 2.5 hours · Max 12 participants · $597

Leading Through Disruption.

A peer workshop for senior people leaders at mission-driven organizations

The leaders who navigate disruption well don't do it alone.

You've been carrying significant organizational complexity — probably for longer than you've let on to the people around you. The decisions made without enough information. The weight of being the person everyone looks to for steadiness. The gap between what you can see in your organization and what you can actually do about it alone.

You're not here because you're struggling. You're here because you're ready to stop navigating this in isolation — and to leave with something concrete.

This workshop is for the senior people leaders who are done going it alone through disruption, and ready to find a way forward with peers who actually understand the terrain.

The leaders who navigate disruption well don't do it alone.

You're not here because you're struggling. You're here because you're ready to stop navigating this in isolation — and to leave with something concrete.

This workshop is for the senior people leaders who are done going it alone through disruption, and ready to find a way forward with peers who actually understand the terrain.

What Leading Through Disruption actually is.

This is not a training. There's no curriculum to complete, no certification to earn, and no consultant handing you a change management framework.

It's a structured peer experience — small enough that every voice matters, purposeful enough that you'll leave with something real.

Before you arrive, you'll complete the Change-Readiness Check-In — a short reflection tool that maps where you, your team, and your organization are right now. You'll bring those insights into the room.

During the workshop, you'll move through three guided modules with your cohort →

What's true right now

Surface what's actually happening in your organization with language you've developed before you arrive. The group reflects back what's collectively true. The isolation starts to lift.

What's hard and why

Structured peer exchange in small groups around one generative question. You'll push past the presenting problem to the systemic and relational forces underneath it — the ones that are actually determining your outcomes.

What's your way forward

Individual clarity mapping, whole-group close. You'll name a concrete next step — something you generated in the room, not something handed to you — and commit to it in front of peers.

Who belongs
here.

This workshop is for CHROs, Chief People Officers, VPs of People and Culture, and senior HR and OD leaders at nonprofits, NGOs, higher education institutions, and other mission-driven organizations.

You're the right fit if you're currently navigating significant organizational disruption — restructuring, leadership transition, rapid growth, or funding uncertainty — and you're carrying more of it than you should be alone.

You're not the right fit if you're looking for a training program, a certification, or a consultant to tell you what to do. This is a peer experience. The group generates the clarity.

12

This cohort is limited to 12 participants. The size is an intentional design choice. The work we do together happens best at this scale.

What you'll
leave with.

By the time we close, you'll have:

Peer connection that doesn't require context.

For once, you won't have to explain what it's like to be in your role — you'll be in a room full of people who already know.

Clarity about your situation

that's hard to develop alone. The right questions, asked at the right moment, in the right company, surface things that months of solo thinking can't.

A concrete personal way forward

named by you, witnessed by your cohort. Not a framework. Not a takeaway document. A decision you made in the room.

A community to return to

The relationships built in a cohort this size don't end when the session does.

facilitator

John
Hildebrand

Executive Coach • Facilitator • Organizational Change Strategist

Help you find your own answers — with clarity, confidence, and support.

John works with senior people leaders at mission-driven organizations. His clients include humanitarian NGOs, nonprofits, healthcare groups, and higher education institutions navigating some of the most complex organizational challenges in their sectors.

John's approach isn't to hand you answers. It's to help you find your own with more clarity, more confidence, and meaningful support along the way.

In addition to his work with leaders and organizations, John teaches leadership and organizational change at Rockhurst University's Helzberg School of Management in Kansas City, MO.

He earned his Masters in Positive Organization Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University and is a certified CliftonStrengths Coach and Appreciative Inquiry facilitator.